"PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_en_ot/obit_pausch
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/reviews/critics/chi-last-words-randy-pauschjul26,0,1774425.story