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.

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 ...

I have sat in your lecture hall and been silent so you could speak. Now because of a heinous killing, you are silent. So I step to the podium. In the last few days, so many people have asked me about ...