A very sad piece of news
Some mornings make you wish you could go back to bed and roll back the hands
of time a couple of days, months or years. A very sad note today: Prof.
Randy Pausch, from the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie
Mellon, died this morning from complications linked to pancreatic cancer.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/memoriam-randy-pausch-innovative-computer/story.aspx?guid=%7BA01E624E-ED45-4C4E-92F3-E59B7C5CC159%7D&dist=hppr
Randy Pausch had become famous well beyond his field for his extremely
inspirational 'Last Lecture', subtitled 'How to really achieve your
childhood dreams'. If you haven't seen it yet, I can only recommend spending
the next hour or so letting him guide you through this amazing presentation.
It's extremely sad and uplifting at once, and a rare and precious tribute to
life and its many hidden beauties. And yet, in the words of his mother, he
was only "a doctor, but not the kind that helps people".
May he rest in peace, and please have a thought for his family.
