[출생-사망]
1960년 10월 23일, 미국 ~ 2008년 7월 25일 (47세)
[학력사항]
카네기멜론대학교 컴퓨터 공학
브라운대학교 컴퓨터 공학
[경력사항]
1997 ~ 2008 카네기멜론대학교 컴퓨터공학과 교수
1988 ~ 1997 버지니아대학교 교수
랜돌프 프레더릭 "랜디" 포시(Randolph
Frederick "Randy" Pausch, 1960년 10월 23일 ~
2008년 7월 25일)는 미국의 컴퓨터과학(Computer Science) 교수이며,
인간과 컴퓨터 상호 작용 연구자이다.
췌장암으로 사망하기 전, 마지막 강의를 남겨 큰 감동을 준 인물이다.
메릴랜드 주 출신이며, 브라운 대학교와 카네기 멜론 대학교에서
컴퓨터 과학을 전공했다.
1988년 ~ 1997년 버지니아 대학교,
1997년 이후 카네기 멜론 대학교 교수로 재직했다.
그 사이 그는 여러 컴퓨터 소프트웨어 개발에도 참여했으며,
인간과 컴퓨터 상호 작용·가상현실 분야에 대해 연구했다.
그런 가운데 그는 카네기 멜론 대학교 종신교수로 재직하던 중,
2006년 9월 췌장암 진단을 받았다.
그의 암은 회복이 불가능한 것으로 판정되어 2007년 여름,
교수직을 사퇴하기로 하였다.
카네기 멜론 대학교에서는 학기 말 교수들에게
마지막 강의를 할 기회를 주는데, 그도 마지막 강의를 제의받았다.
암으로 건강이 악화된 상태였으나,
그는 2007년 9월 《당신의 어릴 적 꿈을 진짜로 이루기》제목으로
강의를 했으며, 이는 녹화되어 인터넷 등으로 퍼지면서
세계적으로 유명해졌다.
많은 감동을 주었던 그의 사연은 《마지막 강의》라는 책으로도
출간되어 큰 인기를 모았다.
상태가 더욱 악화된 그는 2008년 7월 25일 만 47세로 세상을 떠났다.
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마지막 강의는 미국 펜실베이니아 주에 소재한
피츠버그시의 카네기 멜론 대학교의 컴퓨터 공학부 교수인
랜디 포시교수가 2007년 9월에 당신의 어릴 적 꿈을
진짜로 이루기라는 제목으로 강의한 내용을 토대로 출판한 책이다.
미국에서는 출판되자마자 아마존과 뉴욕타임스 베스트셀러 1위에
올랐으며, 국내에서는 심은우의 번역으로 살림출판사에서 출판되었다.
[마지막 강의 강연]
마지막 강의가 있기 몇달전에 랜디 포시교수는
말기 췌장암 판정을 받았으며, 이로 인하여 대학교 강단에서의
활동이 불가능하게 되어 대학교를 떠나게 되었다.
대학교를 떠나서 가족과 함께 버지니아주에 거주하던
랜디 포시교수는 대학교의 요청으로 특강을 하게 되었으며
2007년 9월 18일에 카네기 멜런 대학교 에서 마지막으로
강의를 했다.
이 강의에서 랜디 포시 교수는 자신의 삶이 얼마 남지 않았음을
고백하고, 학생들에게 자신의 꿈을 이루기 위해서 어떤 노력을
해 왔는지를 역설하면서 희망과 용기를 주는 감동적인 강의를 하였다.
카네기 멜론 대학교내의 교내 방송 시스템에 의하여
실시간으로도 방송된 이 강의는 나중에 유튜브에 올려졌으며,
현재까지 약 900만명 이상의 조회를 기록하게 되었다.
또한 그의 감동적인 강의는 한국어, 중국어, 독일어, 스페인어로
번역되어 많은 사람들의 마음을 움직였다.
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Randy Pausch
[Born]
Randolph Frederick Pausch
October 23, 1960
Baltimore, Maryland
[Died]
July 25, 2008 (aged 47)
Chesapeake, Virginia
Pancreatic cancer
[Nationality] American
[Fields]
Computer science
Human Computer Interaction
[Institutions]
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Virginia
[Alma mater]
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
[Doctoral advisor] Alfred Spector
[Known for]
Creator of Alice software project
Cofounder of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center
Virtual Reality Research with Disney Imagineers
Inspirational speeches regarding life #1 best-selling book
Battle with cancer
[Notable awards]
Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer
Science Education
Award for Outstanding Contributions to
Computer Science Education
Fellow of the ACM
Time's Time 100
[Spouse] Jai Glasgow
[Children]
Dylan Pausch
Logan Pausch
Chloe Pausch
Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch
(October 23, 1960 ~ July 25, 2008) was an
American professor of computer science, human
–computer interaction, and design at
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer
in September 2006, and in August 2007, he
was given a terminal diagnosis: "3 to 6
months of good health left".
He gave an upbeat lecture titled "The Last Lecture:
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on
September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon,
which became a popular YouTube video and led
to other media appearances. He then co-
authored a book called The Last Lecture on
the same theme, which became a New York
Times best-seller.
Pausch died of complications from pancreatic
cancer on July 25, 2008.
[Early life]
Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and
grew up in Columbia, Maryland. After
graduating from Oakland Mills High School in
Columbia, Pausch received his bachelor's
degree in computer science from Brown
University in May 1982 and his Ph.D. in
computer science from Carnegie Mellon
University in August 1988. While completing
his doctoral studies, Pausch was briefly
employed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
and Adobe Systems.
[Computer science career]
Pausch was an assistant and associate
professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Virginia's
School of Engineering and Applied Science
from 1988 until 1997. While there, he
completed sabbaticals at Walt Disney
Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA).
In 1997, Pausch became Associate Professor of
Computer Science, Human-Computer
Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon
University. In 1998, he was a co-founder,
along with Don Marinelli, of CMU's
Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), and
he started the Building Virtual Worlds
course at CMU, which he taught for 10 years.
He consulted with Google on user interface
design and also consulted with PARC,
Imagineering, and Media Metrix. Pausch is
also the founder of the Alice software
project. He received the National Science
Foundation Presidential Young Investigator
Award and was a Lilly Foundation Teaching
Fellow. Pausch was the author or co-author
of five books and over 70 articles.
Pausch received two awards from ACM in 2007
for his achievements in computing education:
the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator
Award and the ACM Special Interest Group on
Computer Science Education Award for
Outstanding Contributions to Computer
Science Education. He was also inducted as a
Fellow of the ACM in 2007.
[Cancer and death]
Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
and underwent a Whipple procedure
(pancreaticoduodenectomy) on September 19,
2006, in an unsuccessful attempt to halt the
disease. He was told in August 2007 to
expect a remaining three to six months of
good health. He soon moved his family to
Chesapeake, Virginia, a suburb of Norfolk,
to be close to his wife's family.
On March 13, 2008, Pausch advocated for greater
federal funding for pancreatic cancer before
the United States Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, Education, and Related Agencies.
In the week prior to this, he had been
hospitalized in order to have needle
aspiration of pleural effusion in his right lung.
On May 2, 2008, a positron emission
tomography (PET) scan showed that he had
very tiny (5 millimetres (0.20 in) or less)
metastases in his lungs and in some of the
lymph nodes in his chest. He also had
metastases in his peritoneal and
retroperitoneal cavities. On June 26, 2008,
Pausch indicated that he was considering
stopping further chemotherapy because of the
potential adverse side effects.
He was, however, considering some immuno-therapy-
based approaches. On July 24, on behalf of
Pausch, a friend anonymously posted a
message on Pausch's webpage stating that a
biopsy had indicated that the cancer had
progressed farther than had been indicated
by recent PET scans and that Pausch
had "taken a step down" and was "much sicker
than he had been".
The friend also stated that Pausch had then enrolled
in a hospice program designed to provide palliative care
to those at the end of life.
Wikinews has related news: "Last Lecture"
Professor Randy Pausch dies at age 47
Pausch died from pancreatic cancer at his
family's home in Chesapeake, Virginia on
July 25, 2008, at the age of 47. He is
survived by his wife, Jai, and their three
children, Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.
["Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"]
Pausch delivered his "Last Lecture",
titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood
Dreams", at CMU on September 18, 2007. He
gave an abridged version of his speech on
The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2007.
The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of
lectures where top academics are asked to
think deeply about what matters to them, and
then give a hypothetical "final talk", with
a topic such as "what wisdom would you try
to impart to the world if you knew it was
your last chance?" Before speaking, Pausch
received a long standing ovation from a
large crowd of over 400 colleagues and
students. When he motioned them to sit down,
saying, "Make me earn it", someone in the
audience shouted back, "You did!"
During the lecture, Pausch offered
inspirational life lessons, and performed
push-ups on stage. He also commented on the
irony that the "Last Lecture" series had
recently been renamed as "Journeys",
saying, "I thought, damn, I finally nailed
the venue and they renamed it."
After Pausch finished his lecture, Steve Seabolt, on
behalf of Electronic Arts—which is now
collaborating with CMU in the development of
Alice 3.0—pledged to honor Pausch by
creating a memorial scholarship for women in
computer science, in recognition of Pausch's
support and mentoring of women in CS and
engineering.
CMU president Jared Cohon spoke emotionally
of Pausch's humanity and called his
contributions to the university and to
education "remarkable and stunning". He then
announced that CMU will celebrate Pausch's
impact on the world by building and naming
after Pausch a raised pedestrian bridge to
connect CMU's new Computer Science building
and the Center for the Arts, symbolizing the
way Pausch linked those two disciplines.
Brown University professor Andries van Dam
followed Pausch's last lecture with a
tearful and impassioned speech praising him
for his courage and leadership, calling him
a role model.
The Randy Pausch Memorial Footbridge was
dedicated on October 30, 2009, with Jai,
Dylan, Logan, and Chloe Pausch cutting the ribbon.
[The Last Lecture]
The 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. The book
became a New York Times best-seller on April
28, 2008. The Last Lecture expands on
Pausch's speech.
The book's first printing had 400,000 copies,
and it has been translated into 46 languages.
It has spent more than 85 weeks on the New York Times
bestseller list, and there are now more than
4.5 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.
Despite speculation that the book
would be made into a movie, Pausch had
denied these rumors, stating that "there's a
reason to do the book, but if it's telling
the story of the lecture in the medium of
film, we already have that."
(from naver.com wikipedia.org)
Computer science, human Computer interaction, CMU~
(PIG: time-variant)
Positive Influence GRADE (PIG): C
