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Book Description:
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
中文简介：
现年47岁的兰迪是卡内基梅隆大学的计算机科学教授。去年9月，他得知自己患上胰腺癌，只剩下短暂的生命。随后他在卡内基梅隆大学举行了一场题为《真正实现你童年梦想》的演讲，用鼓舞人心、充满智慧的话语告诉人们要珍惜时间，实现自己的梦想，面对挑战时决不放弃。演讲大获成功，不时被观众的笑声、掌声和欢呼声打断。这次演讲的视频很快就在网上流传，吸引了全球约60万观众。本书便是根据这场演讲改编而成。在书中，兰迪还道出原计划在未来20年教导孩子们的事，比如享有乐趣、说真话、敢冒险、发现别人的长处、花时间做重要的事，以及永远要有意外准备。
About Author :
Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Pausch received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a co-founder of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He has done sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and consulted with Google on user interface design. Pausch is the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles, and the founder of the Alice software project.
兰迪•鲍什任职于卡内基梅隆大学计算机科学系、人机界面和设计系。兰迪于1982年在布朗大学获得计算机本科学位，1988年在卡内基梅隆大学获得博士学位。他曾担任过迪斯尼动画工程师，并单独或与他人合作著有五本专著和超过70篇期刊和会刊文章。与唐•麦瑞乃里一起创立了娱乐技术中心，迅速成为训练艺术家和工程师共同工作的样板机构，被认为是裁判世界上其它交互项目的标准。
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