Randy Pausch, the computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. But Pausch’s message was mostly one ...

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WSJ's Jeff Zaslow discusses his new book "The Last Lecture," about beloved Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor Randy Pausch. Last year, Dr. Pausch, who was told he had a few months to live, ...

— -- Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor who became a YouTube phenomenon with his "Last Lecture," died Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47. He died at his home in ...

To millions who have watched him on the Internet or on Oprah Winfrey's TV show, Randy Pausch is the 47-year-old professor dying of cancer who inspired them with his "last lecture," about achieving ...

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor with terminal cancer whose "Last Lecture" became a YouTube sensation in late 2007, died early Friday morning. Pausch died at his home in ...

PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They “give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an ...