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Jamil Abu-Wardeh Producer |
Jamil Abu-Wardeh believes in the community-building power of a shared laugh -- especially in Arabic. He jumpstarted the Dubai standup comedy scene and produced the Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour. |
Session 4: Irrational Choices Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Naif Al-Mutawa Creator, The 99 |
Naif Al-Mutawa has created a group of comic superheroes based on Islamic culture and religion. They derive their superpowers from the 99 attributes of Allah. |
Session 1: Global Century Tues Jul 13, 2010 2:00 – 3:45 |
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Chris Anderson Head of TED |
After a long career in journalism and publishing, Chris Anderson became the curator of the TED Conference in 2002 and has developed it as a platform for identifying and disseminating ideas worth spreading. |
Session 10: Who's the Teacher? Thurs Jul 15, 2010 5:00 – 6:30 |
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Julian Assange Internet activist |
Julian Assange serves as spokesperson for WikiLeaks. |
Session 12: Waging Peace Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Eben Bayer Green designer |
Eben Bayer is co-inventor of MycoBond, an organic (really -- it's based on mycelium, a living, growing organism) adhesive that turns agriwaste into a foam-like material for packaging and insulation. |
Session 6: Different by Design Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Eric Berlow Ecologist |
TED Senior Fellow Eric Berlow studies ecology and networks, exposing the interconnectedness of our ecosystems with climate change, government, corporations and more. |
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TED Fellows Session 1 Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:30 – 10:00 |
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Mitchell Besser HIV/AIDS fighter |
How can mothers with HIV avoid passing it to their kids? In South Africa, Mitchell Besser tapped a new resource for healthcare: moms themselves. The program he started, mothers2mothers, trains new mothers to educate and support other moms. |
Session 5: Healthier Together Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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David Bismark Voting system designer |
David Bismark has co-developed an electronic voting system that contains a simple and reliable method of verification. |
Session 6: Different by Design Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Patrick Chappatte Editorial cartoonist |
With simple lines and pointed jokes that skewer injustice, Patrick Chappatte's editorial cartoons view the tragic, the farcical and the absurd through a lens of unfettered humor. |
Session 1: Global Century Tues Jul 13, 2010 2:00 – 3:45 |
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Tom Chatfield Gaming theorist |
Tom Chatfield thinks about games -- what we want from them, what we get from them, and how we might use our hard-wired desire for a gamer's reward to change the way we learn. |
Session 10: Who's the Teacher? Thurs Jul 15, 2010 5:00 – 6:30 |
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Jason Clay Market transformer |
Jason Clay’s ideas are changing the way governments, foundations, researchers and NGOs identify and address risks and opportunities for their work. |
Session 11: The Tiny Blue Dot Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Dan Cobley Online marketing whiz |
Dan Cobley is a marketing director at Google, where he connects customers and businesses, helping both navigate digital space to find what they need. |
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TED University, Session 1 Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:00 – 5:30 |
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Marcel Dicke Ecological entomologist |
Marcel Dicke wants us to reconsider our relationship with insects, promoting bugs as a tasty -- and ecologically sound -- alternative to meat in an increasingly hungry world. |
Session 7: Creatures Great and Small Thurs Jul 15, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Adrian Dolby Organic farmer |
Adrian Dolby converted Barrington Park Estate Farms into the UK's largest organic enterprise, proving that financial and ecological sustainability can -- and do -- go hand-in-hand. |
Session 7: Creatures Great and Small Thurs Jul 15, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Thomas Dolby Electronic music pioneer |
Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, then moved to Silicon Valley, then went back on the road with his album, "A Map of the Floating City." |
Session 7: Creatures Great and Small Thurs Jul 15, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Karsu Donmez Singer-songwriter |
Young pianist Karsu Donmez was raised on jazz, Chopin and Turkish music; her sound blends the three into a modern take on the blues. |
Session 5: Healthier Together Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Peter Eigen Founder, Transparency International |
As a director of the World Bank in Nairobi, Peter Eigen saw firsthand how devastating corruption can be. He's founder of Transparency International, an NGO that works to persuade international companies not to bribe. |
Session 8: Adventures in Fairness Thurs Jul 15, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Ze Frank Humorist, web artist |
Ze Frank rose to fame on a viral video -- in 2001! He has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences (like the addictive Young Me Now Me) ever since. |
Session 11: The Tiny Blue Dot Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Toni Frohoff Wildlife biologist |
Toni Frohoff investigates the behavioral and emotional connections between humans and marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins. We want to get to know them. Are they trying to get to know us? |
Session 7: Creatures Great and Small Thurs Jul 15, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Jessa Gamble Writer |
Jessa Gamble writes about sleep and time, showing how our internal body clock struggles against our always-on global culture. |
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TED University, Session 1 Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:00 – 5:30 |
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Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, personal fab pioneer |
As Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, Neil Gershenfeld explores the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds. |
Session 6: Different by Design Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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John Hardy Designer, educator |
Jewelry designer John Hardy co-founded the extraordinary Green School in Bali, where kids get a holistic and green education. |
Session 5: Healthier Together Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Robert Lee Hotz Journalist |
Robert Lee Hotz is the science columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he writes about cutting-edge research on climate change, cosmology, molecular medicine, the human brain and much more ... He has traveled three times to the South Pole. |
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TED University, Session 2 Tues Jul 13, 2010 8:30 – 9:45 |
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Iain Hutchison Facial surgeon |
Iain Hutchison is a pioneering oral and facial surgeon; his foundation, Saving Faces, explores the nature of our expressions. |
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Session 3: Found in Translation Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Sheena Iyengar Psycho-economist |
Sheena Iyengar studies how people choose (and what makes us think we're good at it). |
Session 4: Irrational Choices Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Jessica Jackley Microlender |
Jessica Jackley is the co-founder of Kiva.org, an online community that helps individuals loan small amounts of money, called microloans, to entrepreneurs throughout the world. |
Session 8: Adventures in Fairness Thurs Jul 15, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Tim Jackson Economist |
Tim Jackson is a British ecological economist and professor for sustainable development at the University of Surrey. He is the author of "Prosperity without Growth" and director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity. |
Session 8: Adventures in Fairness Thurs Jul 15, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Maz Jobrani Comedian |
A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani is now touring with his second solo comedy show, Browner and Friendlier. |
Session 4: Irrational Choices Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Steven Johnson Writer |
Steven Berlin Johnson examines the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. |
Session 2: Human Systems Tues Jul 13, 2010 4:45 – 6:30 |
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Mor Karbasi Singer-songwriter |
Jerusalem-born Mor Karbasi's songs are the product of a Middle Eastern melting pot. |
Session 3: Found in Translation Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Tan Le Entrepreneur |
Tan Le is the founder & CEO of Emotiv, a bioinformatics company that's working on identifying biomarkers for mental and other neurological conditions using electroencephalography (EEG). |
Session 6: Different by Design Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Annie Lennox Activist, singer-songwriter |
The most successful female British pop musician in history, Annie Lennox has now committed herself to raising awareness of, and supporting actions against, the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. |
Session 2: Human Systems Tues Jul 13, 2010 4:45 – 6:30 |
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Annie Lennox Activist, singer-songwriter |
The most successful female British pop musician in history, Annie Lennox has now committed herself to raising awareness of, and supporting actions against, the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. |
Session 2: Human Systems Tues Jul 13, 2010 4:45 – 6:30 |
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Stefano Mancuso Plant neurobiologist |
Stefano Mancuso is a founder of the study of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization, from genetics to molecules, cells and ecological communities. |
Session 9: The Unknown Brains Thurs Jul 15, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Nic Marks Happiness researcher |
Nic Marks gathers evidence about what makes us happy, and uses it to promote policy that puts the well-being of people and the planet first. He's the founder of the Centre for Well-Being at the UK think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF). |
Session 1: Global Century Tues Jul 13, 2010 2:00 – 3:45 |
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Miwa Matreyek Multimedia artist |
Miwa Matreyek creates performances where real shapes and virtual images trade places, amid layers of animation, video and live bodies. |
Session 6: Different by Design Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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David McCandless Data journalist |
David McCandless draws beautiful conclusions from complex datasets -- thus revealing unexpected insights into our world. |
Session 3: Found in Translation Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Christien Meindertsma Artist |
Christien Meindertsma uses art (and craft) to expose the hidden processes and connections of our modern life. |
Session 7: Creatures Great and Small Thurs Jul 15, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Gero Miesenboeck Optogeneticist |
Using light and a little genetic engineering -- optogenetics -- Gero Miesenboeck has developed a way to control how living nerve cells work, and advanced understanding of how the brain controls behavior. |
Session 9: The Unknown Brains Thurs Jul 15, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Inge Missmahl Analytical psychologist |
By building psychosocial care into the primary health care system in Afghanistan, Inge Missmahl offers hope to a society traumatized by decades of conflict and insecurity. |
Session 5: Healthier Together Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Sugata Mitra Education researcher |
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another. |
Session 10: Who's the Teacher? Thurs Jul 15, 2010 5:00 – 6:30 |
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Peter Molyneux Game changer |
The head of Microsoft's European games division, Peter Molyneux is building an astonishing new "virtual friend" who interacts with you. |
Session 2: Human Systems Tues Jul 13, 2010 4:45 – 6:30 |
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Joseph Nye Diplomat |
The former assistant secretary of defense and former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Joseph Nye offers sharp insights into the way nations take and cede power. |
Session 1: Global Century Tues Jul 13, 2010 2:00 – 3:45 |
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William Perrin Community activist |
William Perrin leads community-building efforts to regenerate and empower neighborhoods and towns in the UK, changing the nature of public dialogue. |
Session 12: Waging Peace Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Caroline Phillips Musician |
Caroline Phillips' rich, soprano voice conjures up the far-and-wide cultures of the world, especially the sound and language of the Basque Country. |
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TED University, Session 2 Tues Jul 13, 2010 8:30 – 9:45 |
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Emily Pilloton Humanitarian design activist |
Emily Pilloton wrote Design Revolution, a book about 100-plus objects and systems designed to make people's lives better. In 2010, her design nonprofit began an immersive residency in Bertie County, North Carolina, the poorest and most rural county in the state. |
Session 6: Different by Design Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Arthur Potts Dawson Green chef |
Arthur Potts Dawson wants us to take responsibility not just for the food we eat, but how we shop for and even dispose of it. And he's showing the way -- with impeccable taste. |
Session 5: Healthier Together Wed Jul 14, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Lewis Pugh Coldwater swimmer |
Pushing his body through epic cold-water swims, Lewis Gordon Pugh wants to draw attention to our global climate. He's just back from swimming in a meltwater lake on the slopes of Mount Everest. |
Session 4: Irrational Choices Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Matt Ridley Rational optimist |
Matt Ridley argues that, through history, the engine of human progress and prosperity has been, and is, "ideas having sex with each other." |
Session 2: Human Systems Tues Jul 13, 2010 4:45 – 6:30 |
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Johan Rockstrom Sustainability expert |
Johan Rockström works to redefine sustainable development. |
Session 11: The Tiny Blue Dot Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Zainab Salbi Activist and social entrepreneur |
Iraqi-born Zainab Salbi founded and runs Women for Women International, and has dedicated her life to helping women in war-torn regions rebuild their lives and communities. |
Session 12: Waging Peace Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Laurie Santos Cognitive psychologist |
Laurie Santos studies primate psychology and monkeynomics -- testing problems in human psychology on primates, who (not so surprisingly) have many of the same predictable irrationalities we do. |
Session 4: Irrational Choices Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Mallika Sarabhai Dancer, actor, activist |
As the leader of Darpana, Mallika Sarabhai is a pioneer in using dance and the arts for social change. |
Session 12: Waging Peace Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Dimitar Sasselov Astronomer |
Dimitar Sasselov works on uniting the physical and life sciences in the hunt for answers to the question of how life began. |
Session 11: The Tiny Blue Dot Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Sebastian Seung Computational neuroscientist |
Sebastian Seung is a leader in the new field of connectomics, currently the hottest space in neuroscience, which studies, in once-impossible detail, the wiring of the brain. |
Session 9: The Unknown Brains Thurs Jul 15, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Elif Shafak Novelist |
Elif Shafak explicitly defies definition -- her writing blends East and West, feminism and tradition, the local and the global, Sufism and rationalism, creating one of today's most unique voices in literature. |
Session 3: Found in Translation Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Derek Sivers Entrepreneur |
Through his new project, MuckWork, Derek Sivers wants to lessen the burdens (and boredom) of creative people. |
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Session 6: Different by Design Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Rachel Sussman Artist, photographer |
Rachel Sussman is on a quest to celebrate the resilience of life by identifying and photographing continuous-living organisms that are 2,000 years or older, all around the world. |
Session 11: The Tiny Blue Dot Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Julian Treasure Sound consultant |
Julian Treasure studies sound and advises businesses on how best to use it. |
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TED University, Session 1 Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:00 – 5:30 |
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Heribert Watzke Food scientist |
Heribert Watzke studies the brain in our gut -- and works to develop new kinds of food that will satisfy our bodies and minds. |
Session 9: The Unknown Brains Thurs Jul 15, 2010 2:30 – 4:15 |
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Chris Wild Retronaut |
Chris Wild calls himself a "retronaut," which he defines as "someone who goes back in time using just perception." |
Session 2: Human Systems Tues Jul 13, 2010 4:45 – 6:30 |
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Stefan Wolff Ethnic conflicts scholar |
Stefan Wolff studies contemporary conflicts, focusing on the prevention and settlement of ethnic conflicts and in postconflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. |
Session 12: Waging Peace Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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Conrad Wolfram Mathematician |
Conrad Wolfram runs the worldwide arm of Wolfram Research, the mathematical lab behind the cutting-edge knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha. |
Session 10: Who's the Teacher? Thurs Jul 15, 2010 5:00 – 6:30 |
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Sheryl WuDunn Author, journalist |
As a journalist reporting on China, Sheryl WuDunn saw the everyday oppression of women around the world. She and Nick Kristof wrote "Half the Sky," chronicling women's stories of horror and, especially, hope. |
Session 1: Global Century Tues Jul 13, 2010 2:00 – 3:45 |
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Ethan Zuckerman Blogger, digital visionary |
Ethan Zuckerman studies how the world -- the whole world -- uses new media to share information and moods across cultures, languages and platforms. |
Session 3: Found in Translation Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Auret van Heerden Labor-rights activist |
At the head of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), Auret van Heerden takes a practical approach to workers' rights, persuading corporations and NGOs to protect labor in global supply chains. |
Session 8: Adventures in Fairness Thurs Jul 15, 2010 11:15 – 1:00 |
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