Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University. He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. Pausch was also the director of the Alice, a software designed to teach children programming. The video of ‘’The Last Lecture’’ has more than twenty million views on YouTube. Pausch died from pancreatic cancer in 2008.