最新兰迪·波许教授的最后一课

Our Villain; but all’s well that ends well
Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things
Aladdin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Being in zero gravity
The “vomit comet”
Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things
Football
Dream: play in the NFL Coach Graham
Virtual Jungle Cruise
Enabling the Childhood Dreams of Others
… or, “Boy, am I glad I became a professor!”
Building Virtual Worlds
50 students from art, design, drama, and CS Randomly chosen teams, change per project Two weeks to design, implement, and test Five projects during the semester
I Never Made it to the NFL
But football got me where I am today Fundamentals & Hard Work “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted” Most of what we learn, we learn indirectly (or by “head fake”)
My childhood dreams Enabling the dreams of others Lessons learned: how you can achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others
My Childhood Dreams
My Childhood Dreams
The First Year
Listed in Five Departments (I love CMU!)
Content: Anything you want
CHI ‘91, and Tom Furness asks a question…
Jon Snoddy
I had to brief the Secretary of Defense
Disney’s Aladdin project
Lunch with Jon…
“ But you're in the business of telling stuff, and we're in the business of keeping secrets” He taught me: “wait, and people will surprise you.”
I can hear the cynics…
Being an Imagineer
Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things
1991: VR on Five Dollars a Day
Being in zero gravity Playing in the NFL Authoring an article in the World Book encyclopedia Being Captain Kirk Winning stuffed animals Being a Disney Imagineer
Working on Aladdin VR
a once in five careers opportunity Forever changed me
real people, real HCI issues how to put engineers & artists together
Really being an Imagineer… and I said “no.”
Being an author in the World Book Encyclopedia
Meeting Being like Captain Kirk
Dream
Being Captain Kirk
It’s cool to meet your boyhood idol.
Winning Stuffed Animals
practice with no football fundamentals him riding me all practice
Coach Setliff
Power of enthusiasm
To this day, I am most comfortable on a football field
Really Achieving Your Childhood
Dreams
Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon UniverHale Waihona Puke Baiduity
Sept 18, 2007
The elephant in the room…
I’m not in denial…
And I’m in good health now
What we’re not talking about
Cancer Things more important than childhood dreams: my wife and kids Spirituality & Religion
My deathbed conversion
Today’s Talk