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Randy Pausch, the ‘last lecture’ professor has died

My parents just bought me The Last Lecture as a present for graduating from college (at 37 years old I’m no whiz kid).
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

Randy Pausch emphasized the joy [...]