السلام عليكم…
الكثير منا سمع عن الدكتور راندي من جامعة كارنيقي ميلون المصاب بالسرطان والذي أعطى محاضرات مؤثرة قبل وفاته عن مواجهة السرطان…
موقع الدكتور الرسمي: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch
لديه محاضرة تسمى المحاضرة الأخيرة وخصص لها صفحة على موقع الجامعة: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture
ترجمة حرفية لمحاضرة راندي الى اللغة العربية على شكل PDF بواسطة علي محمد الموسوي.
وقد أصدر راندي كتابا يحمل هذا العنوان وهذه صورة الغلاف:

وكوني طالباً في هذه الجامعة فقد وصلني ايميل من مدير الجامعة الجمعة الماضية ينعى فيه الدكتور راندي وهذا نص الإيميل:
Dear Colleagues:
It is with great sadness that I inform you that our dear friend and
colleague Randy Pausch passed away today, July 25, after a brave
struggle against pancreatic cancer.
Randy captured the minds and hearts of millions worldwide with his
Carnegie Mellon lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” and
his book, “The Last Lecture.”
Randy, who earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon in 1988, returned
to the university in 1997 as an associate professor of human-computer
interaction and computer science. Along with Carnegie Mellon Professor
Don Marinelli, Randy was the co-founder of the Entertainment
Technology Center, a leading interactive multimedia education and
entertainment center.
At Carnegie Mellon, Randy was also the director of the Alice software
project, a revolutionary way to teach computer programming. The
interactive Alice program teaches computer programming by having kids
make animated movies and games. A fitting legacy to Randy’s life and
work, Alice may in the future help to reverse the dramatic drop in the
number of students majoring in computer science at colleges and
universities. Randy was also known as a pioneer in the development of
virtual reality, and he created the popular Building Virtual Worlds
class.
An award-winning teacher and researcher, Randy was also a National
Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly
Foundation Teaching Fellow. He used sabbatical leaves to work at Walt
Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and he consulted with
Google Inc. on user interface design. He is the author or co-author of
five books and more than 70 articles.
Perhaps the greatest lesson, however, Randy taught us all was how to
live, even in the face of great challenges, and how to follow our
passion. While Randy’s greatest passion was clearly his family, he did
not shy from sharing his passion for his work as a professor, for his
students, and for Carnegie Mellon. We will miss Randy, but we will
carry the memory of him and all that he did to make Carnegie Mellon a
better university and each of us who knew him a better person.
A memorial service for Randy will be scheduled at a later date.
Sincerely,
Jared L. Cohon