I just learned that Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch, who grew notoriety for his “Last Lecture”, died last Friday of pancreatic cancer. I have mentioned that lecture on my previous blog entry: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Ji on 2008-2-20,21:59 Tags：Legend , Speech. It is a pretty sad news to me, although he actually lived [...]

Summary: This dialogue was made in Beijing, August 2007. Johan reflected the developement of his own career to shed some lights on young Chinese logicians. He also reviewed the historical development of modal logic and the new trends. If you are thinking about the value of logics, either theoretical or practical, you could also find [...]

Title: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams By: Randy Pausch Date: September 18, 2007 Location: Carnegie Mellon University Today, I happen to get this video: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch, who was informed having 3 to 6 months life due to liver cancer. This was called his last lecture, but it is not. [...]