{"id":1373,"date":"2007-10-05T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashokkarania.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2007-10-05T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:13:31","slug":"the-lecture-of-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/the-lecture-of-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lecture Of A Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ratikaka shared this wonderful note with me. It is indeed inspiring and touching.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon Universitywho is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, &#8220;Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,&#8221; Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal called it &#8220;the lecture of a lifetime&#8221; and those who have seen it have more than agreed. A beloved professor at Carnegie Mellon, Pausch got a standing ovation from the 400-member audience before he even opened his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Pausch, a professor of computer science, human computer interaction and design, is a co-founder of Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Entertainment Technology Center and the creator of the Alice interactive computing program, which is being used by students worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the whole lecture which is over an hour when you get enough time: <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&amp;hl=en\">http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_8kUTUIveyA\">ABC News Clip<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&amp;hl=en\"><\/a> <http: videoplay?docid=\"362421849901825950&amp;hl=en\"> <http: videoplay?docid=\"362421849901825950&amp;hl=en\"> <\/http:><\/http:><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ratikaka shared this wonderful note with me. It is indeed inspiring and touching. Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon Universitywho is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, &#8220;Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,&#8221; Pausch talked about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-classical-gyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}