I heard about this today. Randy Pausch, the author of Alice, is dying of pancreatic cancer. It's become commonplace for universities to have "last lectures" from dignitaries, but on the news of his fate Pausch gave a touching last lecture recently. Here's an article on it:
---Mark
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also mark guzdial who attended Randy Pausch's last lecture has written a moving blog about it which includes links to videos of the lecture
http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK1LG69K8X6WGH9 -- Bill Kerr On 9/23/07, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Randy is a great guy -- no professor has done more for his students in
every way.
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Thanks for this link, Bill. I watched the whole thing. Randy is great.
---Mark
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