Back story: See the original Lounge thread here. Summary - Dr. Randy Pausch, a CS professor at Carnegie Mellon University, gives a talk in the "Last Lecture" series. Unlike most of the other lecturers ...

This Week: Tara Parker-Pope discusses the recent death of Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch with Jeff Zaslow, co-author of the best-selling book, "The Last Lecture," which he wrote with Mr.

It was not really complicated. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, stood up last Sept. 18 and gave a talk to about 400 students, faculty and friends ...

PITTSBURGH -- Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died today. He was ...

PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.