Special session in honor of randy pausch

ABSTRACT

Randy Pausch is an inspiration to all with his research, teaching, the way he has lived his life, and his courage while confronting pancreatic cancer. This session brings together people he has touched through various phases of his career to discuss his research and legacy.

References

1. Dann, W., Cooper, S., and Pausch, R., Learning to Program With Alice. 2003,Prentice-Hall. To be published in August, 2003.
2. Durbin, J., Gossweiler, R., and Pausch, R. "Amortizing 3D Graphics Optimization Across Multiple Frames," in Eighth Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Nov, 1995. Pittsburgh, PA: pp. 13--18. Proceedings UIST'95.
3. Goble, J.C., Hinckley, K., Pausch, R., Snell, J.W., and Kassell, N.F., "Two-handed Spatial Interface Tools for Neurosurgical Planning." IEEE Computer, special issue on Real Applications for Virtual Reality, 1995. 28(7)July.
4. Kelleher, C., Pausch, R., and Kiesler, S. "Storytelling Alice Motivates Middle School Girls to Learn ComputerProgramming," in CHI'2007: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2007. pp. 1455--1464.
5. Pausch, R. "Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a Day," in CHI'1991: ACM SIGCHI: Human Factors in Computing Systems. April, 1991. pp. 265--270.
6. Pausch, R., Burnette, T., Brockway, D., and Weiblen, M.E. "Navigation and Locomotion in Virtual Worlds via Flight into Hand-Held Miniatures," in Computer Graphics: ACM SIGGRAPH `95 Conference. July, 1995.
7. Pausch, R., Burnette, T., Capehart, A.C., Conway, M., Cosgrove, D., DeLine, R., Durbin, J., Gossweiler, R., Koga, S., and White, J., "Alice: A Rapid Prototyping System for 3D Graphics." IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 1995. 15(3): pp. 8--11. May.
8. Pausch, R., Conway, M., and DeLine, R., "Lesson Learned from SUIT, the Simple User Interface Toolkit." ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Oct, 1992. 10(4): pp. 320--344.
9. Pausch, R., Proffitt, D., and Williams, G. "Quantifying immersion in virtual reality," in SIGGRAPH '97: Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. 1997. pp. 13--18.
10. Pausch, R., Snoddy, J., Taylor, R., Watson, S., and Haseltine, E. "Disney's Aladdin: First Steps Toward Storytelling in Virtual Reality," in ACM SIGGRAPH 96 Conference. August, 1996. pp. 193--203.
11. Pausch, R. and Zaslow, J., The Last Lecture. 2008, Hyperion Books.

Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Computer graphics

    • Graphics systems and interfaces

      • Virtual reality

• General and reference

  • Document types

    • Biographies

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction paradigms

      • Mixed / augmented reality

      • Virtual reality

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Computing education

      • Computing education programs

        • Computer science education

        • Information science education

• Software and its engineering

  • Software creation and management

    • Designing software

      • Software implementation planning

        • Software design techniques

    • Software development process management