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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 ...
The Last Lecture is a 2008 New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch —a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal. [1]
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 speech marked the first in a series named for the talk given by Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch in September 2007, after Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, from which he died in July 2008. The format encourages the speaker to discuss, in Himes's words, "the issues that matter most and have been truest in life." [4]
On September 18, 2007, in his "Last Lecture" at Carnegie Mellon University, entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", Randy Pausch referred extensively to "head fakes". He described as a "head fake", for example, the phenomenon of parents encouraging their children to play football.
I saw the video on YouTube in the past month or two, and I noticed that a page had been started for Pausch's book here. Good going, to those who've begun it. Zaslow, Jeffrey (2008-07-26). "Professor Aimed 'Last Lecture' At His Children ... and Inspired Millions". The Wall Street Journal; Wilson, Craig (2008-04-08).
Considering it is the main thing Pausch is notable for is "The Last Lecture", I believe the article needs more information on it. Anonymous101 15:24, 2 October 2008 (UTC) I think more information of the book version of "The Last Lecture" would be appropriate. Anonymous101 15:24, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Compeyson is absent for most of the novel and is not even named until Chapter 42, more than three quarters of the way through. Nonetheless, by having jilted Miss Havisham and then dragging Magwitch, as Estella's father, further into a life of crime, he affects the lives of multiple characters in the story, including Pip, and so becomes the ...