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Poster advertising Pausch's lecture "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" (also called "The Last Lecture" [1]) was a lecture given by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007, [2] that received widespread media coverage, and was the basis for The Last Lecture, a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Wall Street Journal reporter ...
Thomas Alexander Evelyn Platts-Mills, FRS (born 1941, Colchester), son of British member of parliament and barrister John Platts-Mills, is a British allergy researcher and director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
The Platt Report stated that trainee nurses should receive two years of academic study and monitored clinical experience, followed by an exam, then another year of work in a hospital under supervision. [2] Nurse training had to cover general medicine and surgery, gynaecology, paediatrics, ear nose and throat medicine, ophthalmology and dermatology.
Then-Disney-owned publisher Hyperion paid $6.7 million for the rights to publish a book about Pausch called The Last Lecture, co-authored by Pausch and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeffrey Zaslow. [21] The book became a New York Times best-seller on April 28, 2008. [22] The Last Lecture expands on Pausch's speech. The book's first printing had ...
The Last Lecture received numerous positive reviews. After giving his last lecture, people were eager to know more about Pausch's life experiences. After the book was released in 2008, 2.3 million copies were printed and it has been published in 29 languages. [4] The popularity of the book has made it almost impossible to find in stores. [6]
They say the The Last Lecture video is made copyright free by the university. The whole 76 minutes video is available on youtube and someone should upload it. OhanaUnited Talk page 22:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC) Oh, and he made a comment about Wikipedia at 13th minute of the full version video. OhanaUnited Talk page 23:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
John Platt (artist) (1886–1967), English artist; John R. Platt (1918–1992), American physicist and biophysicist; John Talbot Platt (published from 1960s, died 1990), Australian linguist who documented the Kokatha dialect; John Platt (footballer) (born 1954), English goalkeeper; John Platt (computer scientist) (born 1963), Google scientist
The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts.