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jrtomvia /.: Randy Pausch is a VR researcher who's done all sorts of cool stuff, and is now dying of pancreatic cancer at age 46.
This is a video of his last lecture: http://cmu.edu/uls/journeys/
in which he talks about his childhood dreams (including experiencing zero gravity and working as a Disney Imagineer), how he's achieved them (and what he got out of them), and what it's been like to help his students achieve theirs.
It's about 2 hours long, and I haven't watched the whole thing yet. But it's worth watching even if you don't give a rat's ass about VR: he's a good speaker, it's not at all a technical talk, and seeing someone with a terminal illness that can still be this cheerful is, well, inspiring and thought-provoking.
Here's a YouTube version of the above talk, cut into 10-minute segments: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2271329759182712042&q=Randy+Pausch&total=19&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
and here's a news article that talks about the lecture, if you don't have 2 hours to spare:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-85.stm
Randy's home page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Update: OK, I've watched the whole thing now. Seriously, go watch it. I was truly moved.
This is a video of his last lecture: http://cmu.edu/uls/journeys/
in which he talks about his childhood dreams (including experiencing zero gravity and working as a Disney Imagineer), how he's achieved them (and what he got out of them), and what it's been like to help his students achieve theirs.
It's about 2 hours long, and I haven't watched the whole thing yet. But it's worth watching even if you don't give a rat's ass about VR: he's a good speaker, it's not at all a technical talk, and seeing someone with a terminal illness that can still be this cheerful is, well, inspiring and thought-provoking.
Here's a YouTube version of the above talk, cut into 10-minute segments: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2271329759182712042&q=Randy+Pausch&total=19&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
and here's a news article that talks about the lecture, if you don't have 2 hours to spare:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-85.stm
Randy's home page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Update: OK, I've watched the whole thing now. Seriously, go watch it. I was truly moved.
Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture
Date: 29 October 2007 19:36 (UTC)1. Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
3. Never lose the child-like wonder.
4. If we do something which is pioneering, we will get arrows in the back. But at the end of the day, a whole lot of people will have a whole lot of fun.
5. Be good at something; it makes you valuable.
6. If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.
Check out the tribute quiz on the lecture at www.mystudiyo.com : you can add your own questions at the end of the quiz.
http://www.mystudiyo.com/activity.php?act=558