Randy Pausch Facts
Randy Pausch Facts
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| Pausch was born in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| In 1982 he earned a BS in computer science from Brown University. |
| In 1988 he received a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. |
| He worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Adobe Systems while completing his graduate work. |
| From 1988 to 1997 he was an assistant and associate professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. |
| During that time he also worked for Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts. |
| In 1997 he became Associate Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Design at Carnegie-Mellon University. |
| In 1998 he co-founded Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie-Mellon. |
| For ten years he taught the Building Virtual Worlds course at Carnegie-Mellon. |
| He is the founder of the Alice software project which is freeware, computer animation software. |
| It was developed at the University of Virginia and later moved to Carnegie-Mellon. |
| He was a recipient of the National Science foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. |
| He wrote five books and over 70 articles on computer related topics. |
| In 2007 he received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. |
| In September, 2006 Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. |
| The surgery was unsuccessful and in 2007 he was told to expect 3 to 6 months of good health. |
| He moved to Chesapeake, Virginia with his family. |
| He died in Chesapeake, Virginia from pancreatic cancer and is survived by his wife and three children. |
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