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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.
中文簡(jiǎn)介：
現(xiàn)年47歲的蘭迪是卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)的計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)教授。去年9月，他得知自己患上胰腺癌，只剩下短暫的生命。隨后他在卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)舉行了一場(chǎng)題為《真正實(shí)現(xiàn)你童年夢(mèng)想》的演講，用鼓舞人心、充滿智慧的話語(yǔ)告訴人們要珍惜時(shí)間，實(shí)現(xiàn)自己的夢(mèng)想，面對(duì)挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)決不放棄。演講大獲成功，不時(shí)被觀眾的笑聲、掌聲和歡呼聲打斷。這次演講的視頻很快就在網(wǎng)上流傳，吸引了全球約60萬(wàn)觀眾。本書便是根據(jù)這場(chǎng)演講改編而成。在書中，蘭迪還道出原計(jì)劃在未來(lái)20年教導(dǎo)孩子們的事，比如享有樂(lè)趣、說(shuō)真話、敢冒險(xiǎn)、發(fā)現(xiàn)別人的長(zhǎng)處、花時(shí)間做重要的事，以及永遠(yuǎn)要有意外準(zhǔn)備。
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.
蘭迪?鮑什任職于卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)系、人機(jī)界面和設(shè)計(jì)系。蘭迪于1982年在布朗大學(xué)獲得計(jì)算機(jī)本科學(xué)位，1988年在卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)獲得博士學(xué)位。他曾擔(dān)任過(guò)迪斯尼動(dòng)畫工程師，并單獨(dú)或與他人合作著有五本專著和超過(guò)70篇期刊和會(huì)刊文章。與唐?麥瑞乃里一起創(chuàng)立了娛樂(lè)技術(shù)中心，迅速成為訓(xùn)練藝術(shù)家和工程師共同工作的樣板機(jī)構(gòu)，被認(rèn)為是裁判世界上其它交互項(xiàng)目的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
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