Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, has died.

post-gazette.com — Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose final lecture inspired millions, has died of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch, 47, who turned the lecture into a book, said that no one would have been interested in his words of wisdom were he not a man in his 40s with a terminal illness. Jul 25, 2008 View in Crawl 4