Each year a Carnegie Mellon University faculty member is asked to deliver what would hypothetically be a final speech to their students before dying. When the author of this book, a 47-year-old computer science professor and father of three, was asked to speak in the Last Lecture series in September 2007, he did not have to imagine what he would say if he were dying. In fact, he had been diagnosed with cancer and given three to six months to live. The video of his lecture became popular over the Internet and spawned the book, The Last Lecture, which was released in April 2008. The author lived longer than expected, but died in July 2008. Whom are we talking about?