Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch, an American computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, virtual-reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, and the co-founder of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center. He was born on October 23, 1960. When he was 46 Pausch discovered that he had pancreatic cancer, and when he was 47 he have been told that he had 3-6 months life expectancy. A month after Pausch received the news he participated in a speech following an academic tradition called “Last lecture”. After that lecture his address video went viral on the Internet, and was the success behind his best-selling book The Last Lecture later on.