Shivam's World

It is such a pleasure and honor to be at a place where professors like Randy Pausch have spent their lives. He inspired students when he was with us and he continues to inspire us after he’s gone.
The Randy Pausch Bridge connects the fine arts buliding, Purnell Center, with the Gates & Hillman Centers, the home for computer science at Carnegie Mellon.

The bridge’s railing consists of 7000 programmable LED’s that animate to represent 6 different metaphors from his book “The Last Lecture”. The 6 animated sequence represent:

• Fun with Crayons
• Outer Space
• Make the Most of Each Day
• Be the First Penguin
• The Elevator in Randy’s Room
• Disney and the Circus

A beautiful video on the various sequence can be seen below.

This bridge will stand forever and keep inspiring generations of students who’ll walk on it. We’ll always miss him.
This picture was taken on 6 December 2009