September 22 Event will be Streamed Live on ABCNews.com

PITTSBURGH-CarnegieMellon University will celebrate the life of Professor Randy Pauschwith a special memorial event at 4:30 p.m., September 22. Pausch, abeloved professor who became famous worldwide for his inspirational"Last Lecture," died July 25 at age 47 of pancreatic cancer.

"RememberingRandy: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Randy Pausch" willinclude recollections and tributes from a number of Pausch's friendsand colleagues. Attendance in Rangos Hall of Carnegie Mellon'sUniversity Center will be by invitation only, but the entire event willbe streamed live on ABCNews.com.

"We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of affectionfor Randy and the deep sense of loss felt by so many of the people whocame to know our friend and colleague over the past 11 months," saidJared L. Cohon, Carnegie Mellon president. "We wish we couldaccommodate everybody who would like to attend this event, but the sizeof even the biggest room on campus, not to mention our limited parking,makes that impossible. By making live streaming video available, wehope that everyone can join us as a virtual community."

The university is encouraging its schools and colleges toorganize their own gatherings of students, faculty and staff to watchthe webcast on ABCNews.com, and hopes that friends of Randy elsewherein Pittsburgh and across the country do likewise. The School ofComputer Science will host a webcast of the event in 7500 Wean Hall.

Like the video of Pausch's Sept. 18, 2007 lecture, videoof the memorial event will be posted soon afterward on the CarnegieMellon channels of YouTube and iTunesU. The video also will beavailable at http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture.

Informationabout Pausch, his lecture and the Sept. 22 celebration is available atwww.cmu.edu/randyslecture. Links to the webcast on ABCNews.com alsowill be available at this site.

Pausch, who earned hisdoctorate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in 1988, joined thefaculty with appointments in the Computer Science Department, theHuman-Computer Interaction Institute and the School of Design in 1997.A popular professor who encouraged artistic and technical people towork collaboratively, he was known in academia for co-founding thepioneering Entertainment Technology Center and for creating theinnovative educational software tool known as "Alice."

Pausch gained his greatest fame for his life-affirming "Last Lecture,"which he delivered to his students and colleagues a few weeks afterlearning he had just months to live. Intended as a roadmap for histhree young children, the talk included his insights on finding thegood in other people, working hard to overcome obstacles and livinggenerously. Video of the lecture has been viewed by millions of peopleover the Internet and later was the basis for a book, "The LastLecture," that became an international bestseller. He was the subjectof an hour-long ABC News Primetime special and appeared twice on theOprah Winfrey Show. ABC News declared him one of three "Persons of theYear" for 2007 and TIME magazine named him to its list of the 100 mostinfluential people in the world.

Note to reporters, assignment editors: Mediaaccess to Rangos Hall during the memorial service will be limited.Journalists who are planning to cover this event must contact KenWalters or Byron Spice at Carnegie Mellon no later than September 17.

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