The "Last Lecture" series was created at Carnegie Mellon
University as an opportunity for instructors to think about and then share with their
audience the way in which they would summarize their life experience of learning and
teaching if they were told, ahead of time, that this would be their "last
lecture."
Randy Pausch delivered his "last lecture" one
month after learning that his pancreatic cancer was no longer treatable and that his
life prognosis was three-six months. His presentation became an upbeat and energetic
revisiting of the formative experiences of his life and what lessons he took from those
times. He used his knowledge and skill as a computer and design instructor to support
his speech, and concluded the presentation with the information that the basic reason
for the speech was to present words of wisdom and love to his children to carry when he
was no longer with them.
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