NBA Player Ekpe Udoh Announces Book Club

MILWAUKEE - Sept. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Milwaukee Buck, Ekpe Udoh has selected the first book for his on line Twitter Book Club: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

About the Author: Randy Pausch

On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.

Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all, for generations to come.

Randy Pausch was a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml). From 1988 to 1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He was an award-winning teacher and researcher, and worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the non-profit Alice project (http://www.alice.org/). (Alice is an innovative 3-D environment that teaches programming to young people via storytelling and interactive game-playing.) He also co-founded The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon (http://www.etc.cmu.edu/) with Don Marinelli. (ETC (http://www.etc.cmu.edu/) is the premier professional graduate program for interactive entertainment as it is applies across a variety of fields.) Randy lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008.

Ekpe's Book Club is an inititive of NBA Player Ekpe Udoh to create an on line forum for readers around the world to discuss recent literary works.

Ekpe's Bio: http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/4261/ekpe-udoh

HOW TO REGISTER

Send an email to EkpesBookClub@Gmail.com and sent out a tweet "I registered for #EkpesBookClub #TheLastLecture

Ekpe Udoh's Twitter @EkpeUdoh

The 1st ten people will get this months book shipped to them with instructions on the book club. Free of charge.

Readers will meet on line appx. one time a week and discus the book via twitter  using #TheLastLecture and #EkpesBookClub

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