Company Ed Catmull wins 1st 'Last Lecture' award

[Tom Morrow]

Ed Catmull wins first award named for 'Last Lecture' author

Disney Exec Wins Award Named For 'Last Lecture' Author Pausch Ed Catmull is the first winner of the award, which will be given annually by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center InformationWeek Pixar Animation Studios President Ed Catmull will receive the first Randy Pausch Prize from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. The award is named for Randy Pausch, who wrote The Last Lecture, a best-selling book that outlines how he achieved his childhood dreams and found joy in enabling others to achieve theirs. Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist, died of pancreatic cancer July 25 at age 47. "We couldn't think of a more fitting person to receive the first Pausch Prize than Ed Catmull," Don Marinelli, co-founder and executive producer of the Entertainment Technology Center, said in an announcement. by K.C. Jones complete article

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That is so cool that they would have an award in in name of Randy Pausch.