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Randy Pausch
Dr. Randy Pausch, 2008
Born	(1960-10-23)October 23, 1960 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died	July 25, 2008(2008-07-25) (aged 47) Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
Cause of death	Pancreatic cancer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University Carnegie Mellon University
Known for	Creator of Alice software project Cofounder of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center Virtual Reality Research with Disney Imagineers Inspirational speeches regarding life #1 best-selling book Battle with cancer
Awards	Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education Fellow of the ACM Time's Time 100[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science Human Computer Interaction
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University University of Virginia
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Spector

Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch^[3] (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal diagnosis: "3 to 6 months of good health left". He gave an upbeat lecture entitled "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon, which became a popular YouTube video and led to other media appearances. He then co-authored a book called The Last Lecture on the same theme, which became a New York Times best-seller. Pausch died of complications from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008.