Lecture
"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"
Randy Pausch '82, Professor of Computer Science, HCII, and Design Co-Founder, Entertainment Technology Center
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 4:30 P.M.
WEBCAST in Room 368 (CIT 3rd Floor)
Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.
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This talk is especially important to Randy, the Brown community, and indeed, the world-wide computer science family because Randy has recently learned that the pancreatic cancer he has been fighting for the past year is going to win. He was told in August that he can expect 3-6 months of near-normal living. The lecture will be simulcast via the web in CIT-368. Please join us for what will surely be a memorable final lecture by one of our very best and brightest graduates.
If you are unable to join us physically, the link to the web cast is mms://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/pushit01.
You must have Windows Media Player 9 or higher.
Host: Tom Doeppner
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