Randy Pausch's last lecture

Dr. Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science who set out to achieve his child hood dreams. He was diagnosed with cancer, the doctors told him that he had ten tumors in his liver. His child hood dreams were that of zero gravity, NFL football player, an author of the encyclopedia, imagineer, meeting captain Kirk and winning stuff animals.
He belived leadership was very important.
He worked in virtual reality, he went to work on the Aladdin project at Disney.
He worked on the project for six months under the supervision of Jon Snoody. Randy learned how to put engineers and artists together. It was very stressful working on the project. He got offered to work there one day a week with imagineer and he worked ten years for them.

Efficiency was very important to him. He started a class called Building Virtual Worlds. This program consisted of fifty students, four people per team, and two weeks to work on a project. They could not have any shooting violence or pornography
in their work. They held a world wide exhibition for the students to show off their work.

Dr.Randy also came up with Hello World, a virtual world controlled by the person wearing the controls. It gave kids a sense of excitement about what their making.
He taught this course for ten years. The students had to perform their work live in order to get a grade.

He worked with Don Marinelli on the dream fulfillment factory. He did this for six years. Marinelli was very hard to work with. The curriculum was five projects and then three more. They had no deans to report to and liscense to break the mold. He also worked on the Alice project. It was a novel way to teach programming had over 1 million downloads and 8 textbooks.

The lessons learned was to help others, loyalty, never give up and never lose the childlike wonders.