ABC-TV Airs Special on Former U.Va. Professor Randy Pausch
April
8, 2008 — ABC-TV will air a one-hour special about Professor Randy
Pausch this Wednesday April 9. at 10 p.m. The program will be hosted by
Diane Sawyer.
Pausch, former professor in the University of Virginia's Department of
Computer Science from 1988-1997, was diagnosed last August with
pancreatic cancer and given months to live. The special is based on the
lecture that Pausch gave at Carnegie Mellon, where he taught since
leaving U.Va. That lecture, given in September as part of CMU's last
lecture series, was titled "Live Your Childhood Dreams" and has been
called "the lecture of a lifetime" by the Wall Street Journal.
A new book, The Last Lecture, written by Pausch with Wall Street
Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow, has been published by Disney/Hyperion
and expands on the famous lecture.
Pausch, 47, is married with children ages 2, 4, and 6. He returned to
U.Va. last November and delivered a lecture on time management to a
standing-room only audience in Old Cabell Hall. The video of that U.Va.
lecture has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on the Web.
