Randy Pausch worked briefly at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Adobe Systems before joining Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 as an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, and Design.
Pausch had completed his high school education at Oakland Mills High School. He later earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University. Pausch also earned a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He began his computer science career as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia.
Similarly, Pausch founded the Alice software project and was awarded the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award. Pausch gave his final lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, 2007, just before his death.
