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Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Randy Pausch passed away Thursday. He is known for his work on Alice, the Entertainment Technology Center, and his speech and book entitled “The Last Lecture”.

This weekend Google placed a link to his lecture on their homepage.

4.5M views and counting.

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Randy, you have shown me more courage than anyone I have met. You have inspired me and many others to seek out their dreams and to never let brick walls stop you. You “touched the world” and gave us hope in a society cynical its leaders and of the future.

RIP Professor. I am honored to have been your student.

~Michael

“Together with fellow Angry Man Jeroen van Hofwegen, I created a generative visual that shows the state of your living room. To do this we use the sound, light and temperature as input. The state of your living room is projected on your wall. The wall gets filled by organisms that live there in an abstract world. The wall is their habitat. So if it’s dark and there is no sound, some creatures will fall asleep.”

It’s kinda like the PlayStation Network commercial, but in real life….

via 6 Angry Men