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Really AchievingYour ChildhoodDreams

Randy Pausch

Carnegie Mellon University

Sept 18, 2007



The elephant in the room…



I’m not in denial…

And I‟m in good health now



Cancer

Things more important than childhood

dreams: my wife and kids Spirituality & Religion

My deathbed conversion

What we’re not talking about



Today’s Talk My childhood dreams

Enabling the dreams of others Lessons learned: how you can achieve

your dreams or enable the dreams of

others



My Childhood Dreams















My Childhood Dreams Being in zero gravity

Playing in the NFL

Authoring an article in the World

Book encyclopedia

Being Captain Kirk

Winning stuffed animals

Being a Disney Imagineer



Being in zero gravity





The “vomit comet”



Brick walls are there for areason: they let us prove how

badly we want things







Football

Dream: play in the NFL Coach Graham

practice with no football

fundamentals

him riding me all practice

Coach Setliff Power of enthusiasm

To this day, I am mostcomfortable on a football field



I Never Made it to the NFL But football got me where I am today

Fundamentals & Hard Work “Experience is what you get when you

didn’t get what you wanted”

Most of what we learn, welearn indirectly (or by “head fake”)



Being an author in the

World Book Encyclopedia







Being like Captain Kirk

Meeting



Dream

Being Captain Kirk









It’s cool to meet

your boyhood idol.



Winning Stuffed Animals



















I can hear the cynics…



Being an Imagineer







B i k ll th f







1991: VR on Five Dollars a Day

CHI „91, and Tom

Furness asks a question…







Jon Snoddy I had to brief the Secretary

of Defense

Disney’s Aladdin project

Lunch with Jon…

“ But you're in the business of telling stuff, and we're in the business of keeping secrets” He taught me: “wait, and people will surprise you.”



Our Villain;

but all‟s

well that

ends well

Brick walls are there for a







Aladdin











Charlie and the Chocolate Factory



Working on Aladdin VR a once in five careers opportunity

Forever changed me

real people, real HCI issues

how to put engineers & artists

together





Really being an Imagineer…

and I said “no.”



Virtual

Jungle

Cruise



Enabling the Childhood



Enabling the Childhood

Dreams of Others

… or, “ Boy , am I glad I became a professor!”







Building Virtual Worlds 50 students from art, design, drama, and CS

Randomly chosen teams, change per project

Two weeks to design, implement, and test

Five projects during the semester



The First Year Listed in Five Departments (I love CMU!)

Content: Anything you want No shooting violence

No pornography

They blew me away w/first assignment

I called Andy van Dam

The first show In McConomy for its A/V

President Cohon’s reaction

Campus-wide Exhibition



Campus wide Exhibition



































BVW was a pioneering course

And as they say…



Th D F lfill t F t



Don Marinelli (Drama) Randy Pausch (CS)

The Dream Fulfillment Factory



Entertainment Technology

Center (ETC)

Artists + Technologists workingin small teams to make things

2 year professional degree: Mastersof Entertainment Technology

Two kindred spirits: try things a new way; we’re both alittle uncomfortable in academia

CMU is the only place I know where this could happen.

Ri ht B i / L ft B i



Right Brain / Left Brain

Don & I shared an office for six years



Don & I shared an office for six years



Co-Director Credit for the ETC’s Success

The ETC is to “masters degrees”



as Cirque Du Soleil is to “circus”

ETC Curriculum: First Draft



Project Course

First Year Fall

Optional Internship

First Year Spring

Second Year Fall Second Year Spring

Project Course

Project CourseProject Course

ETC Curriculum



The Visual StoryImprovisational Acting

Intro to Entertainment Technology

Building Virtual Worlds

ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course II

Elective

First Year Fall

Optional Internship

First Year Spring

ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course III

Elective

ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course IV

Elective

Second Year Fall Second Year Spring

Key to the ETC’s Success: Freedom



No deans to report to

License to “Break the mold”

Project-based curriculum

Intense, fun student experience

Field trips!

Edutainment



Developed with FDNY

Networked simulation

to train 1st responders

to chemical spills and

terrorist attacks

Companies guaranteed hiring our students



Companies guaranteed hiring our students

Don has taken the ETC global:Australia, Korea, Singapore

Keys to the ETC’s Success: Focus on



Keys to the ETC s Success: Focus on

People and Learning to work in Groups

Alice



Alice

The Infinitely

Scalable Dream

Factory And I guess this makes me the mad hatter…



Alice Novel way to teach

Computer Programming

Kids make movies andgames; the “head fake” isthat they are learning toprogram

Over 1 million downloads, 8textbooks, 10% of UScolleges using right now

Alice is my Professional Legacy



Alice is my Professional Legacy Helping millions of kids have fun

while learning something hard

v3.0 will release in 2008, in Java,

with characters from the best-selling PC game in history: TheSims

Can’t mention everyone, but…

Dennis Cosgrove is building it

Wanda Dann, Steve Cooper, DonSlater are developing the pedagogy

Caitlin Kelleher is going to hit thehome run with middle schoolers



Lessons Learned



The Roles of Parents,

Mentors, and Students



My Dad age 80



My Dad, age 80













My Mom

The theory qualifier

My son, the doctor…









Other people who help us



Other people who help us Teachers

Mentors

Friends

Colleagues

Andy van Dam



Andy van Dam Mythical creature

Dutch uncle-d me mysophomore year

Made me go tograduate school

My “Bosses”: Respect authority while questioning it



We learn from our students



We learn from our students The best “head

fake” of all time – Caitlin’s idea about

storytelling in Alice



More Lessons Learned



President Cohon’s Advice

Tell them about having FUN

Like a fish giving a talk about the

importance of water

Decide if you’re Tigger or Eeyore



Never Lose the Child-like Wonder



Help others MK Haley:

Limit case of my

large family theory



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Jessica Hodgins: The best gift ever

Denny Proffitt:

Forgotten more than I‟ll ever know

g y y

“It‟s kind of fun to do

the impossible”

“Professor boy”



Loyalty is a two-way street



Never Give Up



Never Give Up Brown University – didn’t get in.

Carnegie Mellon for Graduate School – didn’t get in.

Meeting with Nico

How to Get People to Help You



How to Get People to Help You You can’t get there alone, and I believe in

Karma

Tell the truth

Be earnest

Apologize when you screw up Focus on others, not yourself (an example…)

Brick walls let us show our



Brick walls let us show our

dedication



Don’t bail; the best

gold is at the bottom of

barrels of crap

Get a feedback loop; and listen to it!



Get a feedback loop; and listen to it!

Show Gratitude



Show Gratitude

ETC admissions… How can you do this?

Don’t complain; just work harder.



Important Advice



Important Advice

Be good at something: it makes you

valuable

Work hard … “what’s your secret?”

Find the best in everybody; no matter how

you have to wait for them to show it

Be prepared: “luck” is where preparation

meets opportunity



Today’s Talk My childhood dreams

Enabling the dreams of others

Lessons learned: how you can achieve

your dreams or enable the dreams of

others

How to achieve your dreams




Have you figured out the head fake?





Have you figured out the head fake?

How to lead your life



Have you figured out the second head fake?



Have you figured out the second head fake?

This talk wasn’t for you guys.

It was for Dylan, Logan, and Chloe.

R ll A hi i



Really Achieving

Your ChildhoodDreams

Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon University

Sept 18, 2007

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