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Randy Pausch finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer. If you missed the video of his lecture, you can catch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Quoted: "But we don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well," said Dr. Pausch, who urged the graduates to find ...

Quoted: Also a Carnegie Mellon alumnus, Pausch co-founded the Entertainment Technology Center and led researchers who created Alice, a revolutionary way to teach computer programming. He was widely respected in academic circles for a unique interdisciplinary approach, bringing together artists, dramatists and designers to break new ground by working in collaboration with computer scientists.

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With just 4 degrees of freedom, the dancing "blob" Keepon, does a great job of dancing expressively. He's a CMU robot, BTW:

http://beatbots.org/research/

Quoted: The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the song "I Turn My Camera On" by the band Spoon. See ...

ReFaving this Jeff Bezos speech to CMU biz school grads. Will watch later.

Quoted: Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, spoke at the Tepper School's 2008 Diploma Ceremonies. The topic of his speech was the pursuit of success via risk and failure.

How did I miss this?!?! When I finish this damn master's program... I doing this!

Quoted: RoboLab is an intense robotics program offered by Carnegie Mellon University’s West Coast Campus, located at Building 23 inside NASA AMES Research Park in Moffett Field, CA. The nine week course introduces students to the electronics, mechanics and computer science of robotics, culminating in a series of autonomous robot challenges. Students program and operate vision-based mobile robots capable of sophisticated sensing and intelligent decision-making. After taking the course, students have the option to purchase identical robot kits for their personal use. We encourage students to continue the exploration of robotics after completing the program..

Didn't realize Scott Berkun is a CMU alum.

He gave his innovation talk to CMU students in Baker Hall earlier this week.

Quoted: Smart People is going to be the new hit indie comedy, at least I hope. I saw this surprisingly impressive comedy-drama at Sundance, and it's made it very high on my list as one of the best movies of the fest. The story is about a literature professor from Carnegie Mellon University named Lawrence Wetherhold, played by Dennis Quaid, who gets involved in a relationship (with Sarah Jessica Parker) and is dealing with his perfectionist daughter (Ellen Page) and jobless brother (Thomas Haden Church). It is a very smart comedy (no pun intended) based off of a fantastic script, and the best part - Ellen Page is back again with another fantastic performance. You won't want to miss this.

CMU's answer to MIT's open courseware? It looks like they are more focused on actually providing complete online course - and not just in placing the course materials online.

Randy Pausch project.

Quoted: Educational Software that teaches computer programming in a 3D environment.