His Video Message Out, a Professor of Computer Science Contemplates the Last Months Ahead

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Randy Pausch didn't want his last lecture to be about dying. He is, unfortunately, dying -- of pancreatic cancer, and he knows it's a painful way to go. But when he walked up to the podium last month to address more than 450 colleagues, students, and friends at Carnegie Mellon University, he intended...