http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/21/172344/029 <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/">Randy Pausch</a> is a man with everything to live for.  But at 46 years of age Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is dying of cancer.  You might expect Pausch to be bitter, morose or in denial about things.  You would be wrong, as Pausch compellingly proves in what many people are calling <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html?mod=home_personal_journal_left">the lecture of a lifetime</a>. en-us Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:51:43 EST Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:33:55 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/21/172344/029#2 This is what I've come up with references to Last Lectures at schools in the US.  Here are links to Last Lecture series conducted at <a href="http://graduate.ua.edu/events/lastlecture.html">Alabama</a>, <a href="http://www.asu.edu/studentaffairs/mu/mu Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:33:55 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2007/9/21/172344/029#1 <i>This type of lecture is becoming popular in universities around the US and it's based on the premise it would be the one last lecture a teacher could give before he or she dies.</i> <p> I've seen this cited a few times in reference to this guy's talk, Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:36:05 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/