Randolph Frederick Pausch was an American educator and professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University. After a September 2006 diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and a terminal prognosis in August 2007, he gave a lecture titled The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams at Carnegie Mellon, which became a widely viewed video and led to a best-selling book of the same name. Pausch died of complications from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008, at age 47. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Who was Randy Pausch's last lecture for, and how widely was it seen?
He said it was really for his kids; he was told over six million people had viewed it online.
Randy Pausch said the lecture really was for his kids, and that if others found value in it, that was wonderful. The lecture was given at Carnegie Mellon University and the recording runs 76 minutes. On his own web page he wrote that, including abridged versions, he was told over six million people had viewed it online. Hyperion published it as a book.
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