PITTSBURGH (AP) — Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday.

PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.

Randy Pausch was, by all accounts, a happy man: attractive, charismatic and blessed with a good marriage and three kids. At Carnegie Mellon, he was a popular computer science professor known for ...

Read the full transcript of Randy Pausch's inspiring "last lecture." OCt. 3, 2007— -- Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Given at Carnegie Mellon University ...

“There are stories behind everything on campus and they teach us about how we got to be where we are,” said Corey Earle ’07, an American studies lecturer. “Every name on every building has a story and ...