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TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a U.S. private non-profit foundation[1] that is best known for its conferences, now held in Europe and Asia as well as the U.S., devoted to what it calls "ideas worth spreading."[2] Its lectures or TED Talks, widely disseminated on the Internet, are subject to an eighteen-minute time limit.

TED was founded in 1984 as a one-off event, and the conference was held annually from 1990. TED's early emphasis, consistent with a Silicon Valley center of gravity, was largely technology and design. Its co-founder was Richard Saul Wurman, credited with having coined in 1976 the term information architect. As popularity of the talks has spread, so has the range of subject matter, to cover almost all aspects of science and culture. Those who have given TED talks include Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Gordon Brown, Richard Dawkins, Bill Gates, the founders of Google, the evangelist Billy Graham, and various Nobel Prize winners.[3]

TED's curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson. It is owned by the Sapling Foundation.

From 2005 to 2009, three $100,000 TED Prizes were awarded annually to help its winners realize a chosen "wish to change the world." Starting in 2010, however, only one winner has been selected to ensure that TED can maximize its efforts of achieving the winner's wish. Each winner unveils their wish at the main annual conference–within the specified 18 minutes.

Background

Bill Clinton addresses TED, 2007
Curator Chris Anderson in 2007
Robert Ballard giving an impassioned presentation on the importance of exploring the oceans at TED 2008

The TED staff is headquartered in New York City and Vancouver. The conference had been held in Monterey, California, since its founding, but since 2009 has been held in Long Beach, California, due to an increased number of attendees.[4] The TED conference also has a companion conference, TEDGlobal, held in varying locations. Last year, TEDGlobal 2009, "The Substance of Things Not Seen," was held in Oxford, UK, July 21–24, 2009. The most recent event was TED 2010, "What the World Needs Now," in Long Beach, California, February 9–13, 2010.[5]

More than 600 TED talks are provided for free viewing online. As of April 2009, talks had been viewed over 250 million times by more than 25 million people.

TED's mission statement begins:

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.[6]

Attendees of TED are called "TEDsters".

History

TED was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in 1984, and has been held annually since 1990. Wurman left after the 2002 conference; the event is now hosted by Chris Anderson and owned by his non-profit organization, The Sapling Foundation,[7] devoted to "leveraging the power of ideas to change the world". In 2006, attendance cost $4,400 and was by invitation only.[8] The membership model was shifted in January 2007 to an annual membership fee of $6,000, which includes attendance of the conference, club mailings, networking tools and conference DVDs.

Since June 2006, TED Talks have been made available online on the TED website, YouTube, iTunes,[9][10][11] and since late 2009, there has been a free iPhone app.[12] The TED website recently won the Webby Award for Best Use of Video or Moving Image at the 13th Annual Webby Awards.[13] TED Talks are transcribed and translated into a number of languages as part of the TED Open-Translation Project, which aims to "[reach] out to the 4.5 billion people on the planet who don't speak English," according to TED Curator Chris Anderson. At the time of the launch, over 300 translations were done by volunteer transcribers in over 40 languages.[5]

Conference

TED speakers

Main article: List of TED speakers

TED Prize

The TED Prize was introduced in 2005. In previous years, three individuals were each given $100,000 and granted a "wish to change the world", which they unveil at TED. However, starting in 2010, only one prize is awarded since "at least half of [the wishes] still require our engagement," and, "adding too many more risks dilution of effort."[14]

2005 [15] 2006 [16] 2007 [17] 2008 [18] 2009 [19] 2010 [20]
Bono Larry Brilliant Bill Clinton Neil Turok Sylvia Earle Jamie Oliver
Edward Burtynsky Jehane Noujaim Edward O. Wilson Dave Eggers Jill Tarter
Robert Fischell Cameron Sinclair James Nachtwey Karen Armstrong José Antonio Abreu

Programs

TED Fellows

The TED Fellows[21] fellowship program brings together young world-changers and trailblazers who have shown unusual accomplishment and exceptional courage.[22] The program targets individuals from the Asia/Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, though anyone from anywhere in the world, age 18 and over, can apply.

TED Senior Fellows 2010

Taghi Amirani (Iran/UK) - Documentary filmmaker, Amirani Films Rachel Armstrong (UK) - Teaching fellow, The Bartlett School of Architecture; physician; science-fiction author Frederick Balagadde (Uganda/US) - Research scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; co-inventor of the microchemostat, a medical diagnostic chip April Karen Baptiste (Trinidad) - Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Colgate University Faisal Chohan (Pakistan) - CEO, Cogilent Solutions; founder, Brightspyre, Pakistan’s largest online job portal Colleen Flanigan (US) - Fine artist; stop-motion armaturist, coral reef restoration expert Gabriella Gómez-Mont (Mexico) - Founder, Tóxico Cultura, a Mexico City-based artistic think tank [[Jonathan Gosier] (US/Uganda) - Founder, Appfrica, a business incubator in Kampala Peter Haas (US/Haiti/Guatemala) - Founder, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) Erik Hersman (Kenya) - Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, AfriGadget and White African Adrian Hong (US/North Korea/South Korea) - Director, The Pegasus Project; former director, Liberty in North Korea Juliette LaMontagne (US) - Education consultant; innovation facilitator Alexander MacDonald (US) - Economist, NASA Ames Research Center Juliana Machado-Ferreira (Brazil) - Biologist, SOS FAUNA; PhD candidate, Sao Paulo University VK Madhavan (India) - Executive Director, Central Himalayan Rural Action Group (Chirag) Naomi Natale (Italy/US) - Founder, One Million Bones, a large-scale social activism art installation Bola Olabisi (Nigeria/UK) - Founder, Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network (GWIIN) Alexander Petroff (US/Democratic Republic of the Congo) - Founder, Working Villages International Juliana Rotich (Kenya/US) - Co-founder, Ushahidi.com; blogger, Afromusing and Global Voices

Mohammad Tauheed (Bangladesh) - Architect; founder, ArchSociety

TED Fellows 2010

Premesh Chandran (Malaysia) - Co-founder and CEO of Malaysiakini.com, an independent Malaysian news website Perry Chen (US) - Co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter, a web platform offering people a new way to fund their creative ideas and endeavors Anita Doron (Ukraine/Canada) - Surrealist filmmaker and documentarian Ndubuisi Ekekwe (Nigeria/US) - Engineer, inventor, author and founder of the African Institution of Technology, an organization seeking to develop microelectronics in Africa Saeed Taji Farouky (Palestine/UK) - Documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer focusing on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa Jessica Green (US) - Professor at the University of Oregon’s Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology whose research focuses on microbial diversity Benjamin Gulak (Canada/US) - Inventor of the Uno, the “green” electric street bike, and founder of BPG Motors Robert Gupta (US) - Violinist, youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Cesar Harada (Japan/France/UK) - Coordinator of the Open_Sailing project, working to develop open-source technologies to intelligently inhabit the oceans Susie Ibarra (US/Philippines) - Composer, percussionist and co-founder of Song of the Bird King, a production company using music and film to preserve indigenous culture and ecology Jennifer Indovina (US) - Founder of Tenrehte Technologies, a semiconductor company developing wireless smart-grid applications Mitchell Joachim (US) - Architect and co-founder of Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, non-profit design groups that promote ecological design in cities Raffael Lomas (Israel) - Sculptor and teacher of creative workshops for the blind Kate Nichols (US) - Artist-in-residence at the Alivisatos Lab who synthesizes nanoparticles that exhibit structural color and incorporates them into macroscale art pieces Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Pakistan/Canada) - Documentary filmmaker and founder of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, an educational institution and heritage center established to preserve Pakistan's history Sarah Jane Pell (Australia) - Artist-researcher, diver and founder of Aquabatics Research Team initiative (ARTi) Manu Prakash (India/US) - Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows, physicist and inventor pursuing research in the field of physical biology Kellee Santiago (US) - President and co-founder of thatgamecompany, a video game company working to create video games that communicate different emotional experiences Durreen Shahnaz (Bangladesh/Singapore/US) - Founder and Chairperson of Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), a social stock exchange for Social Enterprises to raise growth capital Gavin Sheppard (Canada) - Founder of I.C. Visions and co-founder of The Remix Project, a youth program acting as an arts and cultural incubator in Toronto, Cananda Hugo Van Vuuren (South Africa/US) - Fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and at The Laboratory at Harvard, co-founder of Lebone – a social enterprise working on off-grid technologies in Africa Angelo Vermeulen (Belgium) - Biologist, filmmaker, and visual artist creating large-scale collaborative art installations Daniel Zoughbie (US/UK) - Founder and CEO of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), an organization working to prevent and manage diseases in the developing world using low-cost behavioral interventions

TED Fellows 2011

Walid Al-Saqaf (Sweden) – Yemeni programmer and founder of Yemen Portal and alkasir -- software that gives individuals access to blocked websites David Gurman (US) – San Francisco-based installation artist whose work makes invisible events (such as seismic data from nuclear testing) visible Nina Dudnik (US) – American geneticist and CEO of Seeding Labs, an organization providing up-and-coming researchers with lab equipment and other resources Veronica Reed (Ecuador) – Ecuadorian architect working in sustainable design and low-income housing Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz (Venezuela) – Venezuelan editor, writer and co-founder of The Gopher Illustrated magazine and the Plantanoverde Foundation, a platform for emerging artists Iyeoka Okoawo (US) – Nigerian-American poet and recording artist currently based in Boston Adital Ela (Israel) – Israeli designer and artist incorporating indigenous knowledge into sustainable design Camilo Rodriguez-Beltran (Benin/Philippines/Argentina/Basque Country) – Mexican scientist, filmmaker and gallery founder focusing on human health, biodiversity and cross-cultural collaboration Sanjana Hattotuwa (Sri Lanka) – Sri Lankan human rights activist and founder of Groundviews, a citizen-journalism initiative Joseph Foster Ellis (China) – American artist, living and working in China, whose work bridges gaps between East and West Richard Move (US) – American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker exploring the intersection of the human body and digital media Eric Berlow (US) – American ecologist and entrepreneur researching networks and environmental sustainability Boniface Mwangi (Kenya) – Kenyan photojournalist and founder of Picha Mtaani, a youth-led national reconciliation initiative in Kenya Dominic Muren (US) – Open-source fabrication advocate, product designer and founder of The Humblefactory, a product-development consultancy Guido Nunez-Mujica (Venezuela) – Venezuelan writer and scientist working on LavaAmp, a pocket-size thermal cycler for rapid PCR DK Osseo-Asare (Ghana) – Ghanaian-American architect and co-founder of DSGN AGNC, an activist design think-tank, and Low Design Office, an architecture studio Teru Kuwayama (Afghanistan/Pakistan/Kashmir) – American photojournalist covering humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and Iraq Su Kahumbu-Stephanou (Kenya) – Kenyan entrepreneur promoting the development of an organic food industry in Kenya Erika Bagnarelo (Costa Rica) – Costa Rican writer and director (her most-recent film tells the story of atomic bomb-survivors aboard Peace Boat) Roshini Thinakaran (US) – Founder of Women at the Forefront, a multimedia company that examines the challenges faced by women living in conflict zones Olatunbosun Obayomi (Nigeria) – Nigerian biotechnologist inventing new means of alternative energy production from organic waste Mubarak Abdullahi (Nigeria) – Nigerian aircraft engineer who, at 24, built a homemade helicopter out of car and motorbike parts Milena Boniolo (Brazil) – Brazilian chemist developing methods to detect emerging contaminants in the environment

TEDx

TEDxParis, 2009: one of many events now organized under the TEDx program

TEDx is a program that enables schools, businesses, libraries or just groups of friends to enjoy a TED-like experience with TEDx Events they themselves organize, design and host.[23] As of 2010, TEDxevents events have been held in over 60 countries.[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ "About TED : Who we are : Who owns TED". TED. Retrieved March 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ "About TED". TED. Retrieved March 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help) (primary source)
  3. ^ TED: Speakers Retrieved on 6 February 2009 (primary source)
  4. ^ Kim, Victoria (January 16, 2008). "Long Beach to host influential TED conference". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  5. ^ a b TED Conferences (September 13, 2009). "TED Open-Translation Project Brings Subtitles in 40+ Languages to TED.com". PR Newswire (Press release). Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  6. ^ "About TED". TED: Ideas worth spreading. TED Conferences, LLC. Retrieved February 13, 2010. (primary source)
  7. ^ TED: The Sapling Foundation Retrieved on 7 February 2009 (primary source)
  8. ^ TED: Getting Invited (attendees) Retrieved on 7 February 2009 (primary source)
  9. ^ The New York Times: Giving Away Information, but Increasing Revenue 16 April 2007
  10. ^ Wired: Conference to Tackle Origins of Evil, Theories of Everything 26 February 2008
  11. ^ TED YouTube channel
  12. ^ "TED Review". MacWorld. 2009-12-22. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  13. ^ "WebbyNominees". WebbyAwards. TheBarbarianGroupLogo. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  14. ^ Blog.TED.com (primary source)
  15. ^ "TED Prize 2005". TEDPrize.org. Retrieved 2008-11-30. (primary source)
  16. ^ "TED Prize 2006". TEDPrize.org. Retrieved 2008-11-30. (primary source)
  17. ^ "TED Prize 2007". TEDPrize.org. Retrieved 2008-11-30. (primary source)
  18. ^ "TED Prize 2008". TEDPrize.org. Retrieved 2008-11-30. (primary source)
  19. ^ "TED Prize 2009". TEDPrize.org. Retrieved 2008-11-30. (primary source)
  20. ^ "TED Prize 2010". TEDPrize.org. Retrieved 2009-12-21. (primary source)
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  22. ^ Ted.com (primary source)
  23. ^ TED.com (primary source)
  24. ^ TEDx past events listing, and TEDx planned events listing (primary source)
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