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Randy Pausch

Computer Science

#128

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#135

Historical Rank

#76

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#5454

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#5658

Historical Rank

#765

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Randy Pausch's Degrees

PhD Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelors Computer Science Brown University

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According to Wikipedia, Randolph Frederick Pausch was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learned he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006. In August 2007, he was given a terminal diagnosis: "three to six months of good health left". He gave an upbeat lecture titled, "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon, which became a popular YouTube video and led to other media appearances. He co-authored a book of the same name, The Last Lecture, which became a New York Times best-seller.

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Randy Pausch's Published Works

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Virtual reality on a WIM: interactive worlds in miniature (1995) (979)
Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers (2005) (910)
Past, Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools (2000) (813)
Alice: a 3-D tool for introductory programming concepts (2000) (567)
Storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer programming (2007) (476)
Teaching objects-first in introductory computer science (2003) (442)
A survey of design issues in spatial input (1994) (429)
Quantifying immersion in virtual reality (1997) (406)
Passive real-world interface props for neurosurgical visualization (1994) (367)
A Literature Survey for Virtual Environments: Military Flight Simulator Visual Systems and Simulator Sickness (2012) (280)
Creativity Support Tools: Report From a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop (2006) (258)
Design Principles for Tools to Support Creative Thinking (2005) (252)
Learning To Program With Alice (2004) (246)
Using storytelling to motivate programming (2007) (243)
Usability analysis of 3D rotation techniques (1997) (242)
Passive real-world interface props for neurosurgical visualization (1994) (237)
Two-handed virtual manipulation (1998) (234)
Voodoo dolls: seamless interaction at multiple scales in virtual environments (1999) (231)
3D magic lenses (1996) (230)
Physically large displays improve performance on spatial tasks (2006) (229)
Disney's Aladdin: first steps toward storytelling in virtual reality (1996) (220)
Navigation and locomotion in virtual worlds via flight into hand-held miniatures (1995) (216)
Training for physical tasks in virtual environments: Tai Chi (2003) (215)
With similar visual angles, larger displays improve spatial performance (2003) (200)
Stencils-based tutorials: design and evaluation (2005) (163)
Cooperative bimanual action (1997) (157)
A user study comparing head-mounted and stationary displays (1993) (116)
Physically large displays improve path integration in 3D virtual navigation tasks (2004) (113)
Alice: Rapid prototyping system for virtual reality (1995) (102)
Techniques for interactive audience participation (2002) (98)
MessyDesk and MessyBoard: two designs inspired by the goal of improving human memory (2002) (97)
Interaction styles and input/output devices (1993) (94)
Making the connection: programming with animated small world (2000) (88)
The Infocockpit: providing location and place to aid human memory (2001) (84)
Distributed transactions for reliable systems (1985) (81)
Techniques for interactive audience participation (2002) (79)
Two-Handed Spatial Interface Tools for Neurosurgial Planning (1995) (77)
Attention and visual feedback: the bimanual frame of reference (1997) (75)
Using visualization to teach novices recursion (2001) (74)
Motivating programming: using storytelling to make computer programming attractive to middle school girls (2006) (73)
Kinesthetic cues aid spatial memory (2002) (70)
Alice: a rapid prototyping system for building virtual environments (1994) (68)
An Introductory Tutorial for Developing Multiuser Virtual Environments (1994) (66)
Using Animated 3D Graphics to Prepare Novices for CS1 (2003) (65)
Navigation with place representations and visible landmarks (2004) (60)
Camelot: a flexible, distributed transaction processing system (1988) (59)
What HCI designers can learn from video game designers (1994) (56)
Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories (2006) (54)
Lessons learned from SUIT, the simple user interface toolkit (1992) (53)
Alice: rapid prototyping for virtual reality (1995) (48)
A brief architectural overview of alice, a rapid prototyping system for vitrual reality (1995) (43)
Learning to Program with Alice (w/ CD ROM) (2011) (41)
Comparing voodoo dolls and HOMER: exploring the importance of feedback in virtual environments (2002) (37)
Designing A Successful HMD-Based Experience (1999) (37)
Descartes: A programming-language approach to interactive display interfaces (1983) (32)
SUIT: the Pascal of user interface toolkits (1991) (32)
DIVER: A Distributed Virtual Environment Research platform (1993) (29)
Implementing virtual reality (1994) (29)
Objects: visualization of behavior and state (2003) (29)
Pre-emptive shadows: eliminating the blinding light from projectors (2002) (29)
Tailor: creating custom user interfaces based on gesture (1990) (27)
Carnegie Mellon's entertainment technology center: combining the left and right brain (2007) (27)
Virtual reality on five dollars a day (1991) (26)
Three-dimensional user interface for neurosurgical visualization (1994) (25)
Adding input and output to the transactional model (1988) (23)
Giving CANDY to children: user-tailored gesture input driving an articulator-based speech synthesizer (1991) (23)
An Empirical Study : Adding Voice Input to a Graphical Editor (1991) (23)
Alice: easy to learn interactive 3D graphics (1997) (22)
The props-based interface for neurosurgical visualization. (1997) (19)
One dimensional motion tailoring for the disabled: a user study (1992) (17)
Three views of virtual reality: an overview (1993) (14)
Tho-Handed Spatial Interface Tools for Neurosurgical (1995) (13)
Passive Real-world Interface Props for Neurosurgical (1994) (13)
Alice: easy to use interactive 3D graphics (1997) (12)
The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living (2010) (11)
The Pascal of User Interface Toolkits (1991) (10)
Amortizing 3D graphics optimization across multiple frames (1995) (10)
Research frontiers in virtual reality (1994) (10)
Generating 3D interaction techniques by identifying and breaking assumptions (2007) (9)
Alice: a dying man's passion (2008) (9)
High Performance Distributed Transaction Processing in a General Purpose Computing Environment (1987) (9)
New applications for the touchscreen in 2D and 3D medical imaging workstations (1995) (8)
One-Dimensional Motion Tailoring for the Disabled:A User Study (1994) (8)
Messyboard: lowering the cost of communication and making it more enjoyable (2005) (8)
Node Popularity as a Hypertext Browsing Aid (1991) (8)
3 D Magic Lenses (2008) (7)
Learning to Program with Alice, Brief Edition (2006) (7)
Alice and DIVER: a software architecture for building environments (1993) (7)
Specifying interaction surfaces using interaction maps (2003) (6)
Application-independent object selection from inaccurate multimodal input (1992) (5)
A system for application-independent time-critical rendering (1994) (5)
A Tutorial for SUIT: The Simple User Interface Toolkit (1990) (5)
Entertainment Technology Center (2000) (5)
Performing work within virtual environments (panel session) (1995) (4)
Colorplate: Navigation with Place Representations and Visible Landmarks (2004) (4)
SUIT: the simple user interface toolkit (1992) (4)
DIVER: a Ustributed Virtual Environment Besearch Platform (1993) (3)
Alice: model, paint & animate — easy-to-use interactive graphics for the web (2000) (3)
Time Management (2008) (3)
Alice DIVER: A Software Architecture for the Rapid Prototyping of Virtual Environments (1994) (3)
The Virginia User Interface Laboratory (1992) (3)
Are your there? Presence in virtual reality (panel): what is it about and why care? (1998) (2)
Using the Storytelling Alice programming environment to create computer-animated movies inspires middle school girls' interest in learning to program computers. (2007) (2)
A Study Comparing Mouse-Only Input for a Graphical Editor (1990) (2)
Practical low-cost stereo head-mounted display (1991) (2)
Platform independent user interface builders: where are we headed? (1993) (1)
A national research agenda for virtual reality (panel): report by the National Research Council Committee on VR R&D (1995) (1)
Voice Input vs. Keyboard Accelerators: A User Study (2012) (1)
Expanding the interaction lexicon for three-dimensional graphics (2001) (1)
With Similar Visual Angles, Larger Displays Improve Performance on Spatial Tasks (2016) (1)
Location-based entertainment (panel): the next generation (1998) (1)
Applications in virtual environments: bridging the gap between prototypes and working tools (1993) (1)
The interdisciplinary challenge of building virtual worlds (1998) (1)
Proposal for an undergraduate computer science curriculum for the 1980s : part I, discussion (1983) (1)
Stencil-Based Help and Tutorials (2002) (1)
MasterMotion: full body wireless virtual reality for Tai Chi (2002) (1)
Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics: Preface (2003) (1)
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK AND COMMUNITY NEWS Share your federal funding experiences: Help our advocacy efforts (2012) (0)
Proceedings of the 2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, SI3D 2003, Monterey, California, USA, April 28-30, 2003 (2003) (0)
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK AND COMMUNITY NEWS (2011) (0)
Molecular mechanisms involved in the acquisition of drug resistance in pancreatic cancer cells (2013) (0)
Overcoming Scale : The Worlds in Miniature Metaphor (2011) (0)
Why a Pacific Rim Issue of PRESENCE at All? (1994) (0)
A White Paper on Virtual Reality: Fall 1991 (1991) (0)
An Introduction to External Control (1991) (0)
The Truth Can Set You Free (2012) (0)
Kinesthesis Cues Aids Spatial Memory (2016) (0)
Komputer Kingdom : An Online Gaming Environment to Build Foundational Computer Science Skills (2014) (0)
The Last Lecture (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) (2008) (0)
[1994 Eurographics Object-oriented Graphics Workshop -preprint Version] [1994 Eurographics Object-oriented Graphics Workshop -preprint Version] Thanks Go to Leon Shirman, Srikanth Subramaniam, Ajay Sreekanth, and Tom Meyer for Their Help Developing, Com- Menting On, and Using the Tbag System. [1994 (1994) (0)
UVa Position Paper for CHI 94 Workshop on 3D Interaction (1994) (0)
Figure 7: Task Hierarchy for Selecting a Cut Relative to a Specific View. Cut Relative to View View Orient Zoom Position Orient Yaw Pitch Roll Cut X Y Z Yaw Pitch Roll 5.3. Balancing High Speed Interaction and Anatomical Detail (1994) (0)
A Natural Locomotion Virtual Environment Testbed (2006) (0)
Rubberneck Navigation: Manipulating Frames of Reference for 3D Navigation with 2D Input Devices (2016) (0)
A Reference Manual for SUIT, the Simple User Interface Toolkit, Version 2.0 (1991) (0)
Revisiting Haptic Issues for Virtual Manipulation (2016) (0)
Transactional user interfaces (1995) (0)

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