In September of 2006, Randy Pausch, a professor of computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In August of that same year, he was given a terminal diagnosis of three to six months of good health left. He died on July 25, 2008. Carnegie Mellon University had a lecture series at that time titled the last lecture and Pausch gave his last lecture Sept. 18, 2007. He entitled it, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” This lecture was such a hit on YouTube that he went on to do other media appearances and finally wrote a New York Times Bestseller entitled, “The Last Lecture.”