The Last Lecture

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The Last Lecture
http//www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
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The elephant in the room
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Building BridgesA Tribute to Randy Pausch
Image Courtesy of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam
Architects

• Dennis Cosgrove
• Project Scientist / Chief Architect Alice-3
• Wanda Dann
• Director Alice Project

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Outline
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Virtual Reality
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500,000
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VR on 5 a day
Randy Pausch, Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a
Day, ACM SIGCHI Human Factors in Computing
Systems, April, 1991, pages 265-270.
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Alice

• Alice Rapid Prototyping System for Virtual
  Reality , Randy Pausch (head), Tommy Burnette,
  A.C. Capeheart, Matthew Conway, Dennis Cosgrove,
  Rob DeLine, Jim Durbin, Rich Gossweiler, Shuichi
  Koga, Jeff White, IEEE Computer Graphics and
  Applications, May 1995.

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Worlds in Miniature

• Virtual Reality on a WIM Interactive Worlds in
  Miniature (1995) Richard Stoakley, Matthew J.
  Conway, Randy Pausch The University of Virginia.
  Proceedings CHI'95

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Denny Proffitt
What you programmed is not necessarily what they
see.
(Even when the math is right.)
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Quantifying Immersion

• Quantifying Immersion in Virtual Reality, Randy
  Pausch, Dennis Proffitt, George Williams, ACM
  SIGGRAPH 97.

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Geographical Slant
Proffitt, D.R., Bhalla, M., Gossweiler, R.,
Midgett, J. (1995). Perceiving geographical
slant. Psychonomic Bulletin Review, 2, 409-428.
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Eye Height Scaling
Dixon, M.W., Wraga, M., Proffitt, D.R.,
Williams, G.C. (2000). Eye height scaling of
absolute size in immersive and nonimmersive
displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology
Human Perception and Performance, 26, 582-593.
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Proffitt Perception Lab
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Bridge to the Arts
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Sabbatical at Imagineering
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Aladdin
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N45,000
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Disney's Aladdin First Steps Toward Storytelling
in Virtual Reality, Randy Pausch, Jon Snoddy,
Robert Taylor, Scott Watson, Eric Haseltine, ACM
SIGGRAPH 96 Conference Proceedings, August 1996. 
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DisneyQuest
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Artists Engineers
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Jon Snoddy
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Mk Haley
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Its Not Easy
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Stage 3 Research Group
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Pharoahs Tomb
Artwork Steven Audia, Kristen Monkaitis, David
Staack, Chris SturgillProgramming Brian
Stearns, Joe Shochet, David Staack
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Old School
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Building Virtual Worlds
BVW Alpha, Spring 1998 Ann Anson, Robert
Armstrong, Matthew Buckley, Matthew Centurion,
Gregory Chiselko, Lydia Choy, Kevin Christiansen,
Dennis Cosgrove, Chris Cummings, Eric Farng,
Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Gargiulo, Stephanie
Gaultney, Brian Goldberg, Brian Grunkemeyer, Adam
Gulkis, William Jerome, Zak Jones, Ed Knittel,
Jim Kong, Michael Krier, Minne Langstrom, Shawn
Lawson, Mortimer Lebigre, Ping Kong Li, Tom Lin,
Marcie Macdonouigh, Alejandra Marcos, Jimmy
Mathew, Daniel Maynes-Aminzade, Ian Mccullough,
Jack Moffett, Mathew Morton, Dan Moskowitz, David
Newell, Vince Ouyoung, William Paredes, Jim
Pastorius, Jani Pohjanraito, Jason Pratt, Angela
Saval, Tenaya Sims, Martin Sweitzer, Sahala
Swenson, Raymond Tam, Ashish Venugopal, Mauricio
Vives, John Williams, Zoe Woodworth
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BVW Show
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Building Virtual Worlds
BVW Spring 1998 Dennis Cosgrove, Michael Krier,
Ping Kong Li, Jim Pastorius, Tenaya Sims
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Building Virtual Worlds
BVW Spring 1998 Dennis Cosgrove, Michael Krier,
Ping Kong Li, Jim Pastorius, Tenaya Sims
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CS as a Performing Art
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Entertainment Technology Center
Don Marinelli (Drama and Arts Management) Randy
Pausch (CS/HCI)
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Bridge to CS Educators
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First Encounter
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Stage 3
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Alice New Vision

• Educators, writers join Alice team
• Wanda Dann, Ithaca College
• Stephen Cooper, Saint Josephs University
• Take on the challenge of a new vision for Alice
  as a gentle introduction to computer
  programming

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Van ride to Disney World
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Squeak Etoys
http//www.squeakland.org/
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Alice 99

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Alice 2
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Textbook
Developed over 5 year period in conjunction with
the software.
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Other texts based on Alice are appearing
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A lot of colleges are using Alice

• How many is a lot?
• Estimated 1 in 10 using Alice/PH books
• Many others are teaching with other or no texts
• Many High Schools are using for pre-AP or AP

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Formal Studies

• Findings with novice students
• GPA improved in CS1
• Up from C to B
• Increased retention into CS2
• Up from 47 to 88
• Moskal, B., Lurie, D., and Cooper, S. Evaluating
  the effectiveness of a new instructional
  approach. Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE
  technical symposium on Computer science
  education, March 03-07, 2004, Norfolk, Virginia,
  USA.

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Bridge to the Gaming Industry
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Sabbatical at
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Sabbatical at EA
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Steve Seabolt
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An Academic's Field Guide to Electronic Arts
Observations based on a residency in
the spring semester of 2004 Randy Pausch
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Gender Gap
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Caitlin Kellehers PhD
Kelleher, C. Motivating Programming Using
storytelling to make computer programming
attractive to middle school girls. PhD
Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, School
of Computer Science Technical Report
CMU-CS-06-171.
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How can we help?
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If we pull this off, well eat like kings.
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How did Randy pull this off?!?
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Sneak Peak at Alice-3 withThe Sims 2 Assets
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Back to the Last Lecture
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President Cohon
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• Thanks
• Denny Proffitt
• Jon Snoddy
• Mk Haley
• Don Marinelli
• Wanda Dann
• Steve Seabolt
• Reagan Heller
• Jennifer Clark
• Gabe Yu

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