Boy ! I am humbled... 'Last lecture' by Randy Pausch

Achieving your Childhood dreams !

Thanks to my friend Abhilash who lives & works in NY city, I was led to this amazing video by Randy Pausch which in turn also led me to another of his lecture on Time Management.

I am embedding both the videos again on this post.Chances are that you might have already caught up with these cos they seem to have got about 6 million views on the net which is quite phenomenal by any standards.

Randy is a Computer Science Prof at Carnegie Mellon and has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.This lecture was given by him under the 'Last lecture Series' (If you had to give one last talk before you die, what would it be ?) and was done at CMU. The second talk on Time management was given at the Univ of Virginia. Believe me, both are definitely worth your time and attention. Actually , please ! :-)

You can also find Randy's lectures at the CMU channel on youtube.

From wikipedia :

Pausch was named "Person of the Week" on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson on September 21. His "Last Lecture" has attracted wide attention from the international media, became an Internet hit, and was viewed over a million times in the first month after its delivery.On October 22, 2007, Pausch appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where he discussed his situation and recapped his "Last Lecture" for millions of TV viewers.

On October 06, 2007, Pausch joined the Pittsburgh Steelers for the day during their regular practice, after the organization learned that one of his childhood dreams mentioned in his "Last Lecture" was to play in the NFL.

The Disney-owned publisher Hyperion has paid $6.7 million for the rights to publish a book about Randy Pausch called "The Last Lecture," co-authored by Randy Pausch and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Zaslow.