Pausch Book Co-Author to Tell What's Happened Since the Last Lecture

Wall Street Journal reporter and Carnegie Mellon alumnus Jeffrey Zaslow (H&SS ¹80) was in the audience for Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch¹s famous last lecture Sept. 18, 2007. Pausch is terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. The stories Zaslow subsequently wrote in his Moving On column catapulted Pausch into an Internet phenom and international celebrity. The video generated from the lecture has been the most watched in the Journal's history, and Zaslow says he's never received so much mail in his 30 year career as a journalist .

Pausch and Zaslow subsequently collaborated on a book, titled The Last Lecture, which was published by Hyperion Books this week. Join Zaslow at 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 14 in the Chosky Theater in the Purnell Center for the Arts for a book signing and presentation that will give you a behind-the-scenes look at what¹s happened since the last lecture. Free books will be given to the first 50 people to enter the theater

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