Technology, Entertainment, Design

TED "stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader."

"TED is owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofit foundation, a 501(c)3 organization under US tax code. It was established in 1996 by Chris Anderson, who was at that time a magazine publishing entrepreneur."

TED Prize Winners
Accessed April 2010:

2010
 * Jamie Oliver

2009
 * Sylvia Earle
 * Jill Tarter
 * José Abreu

2008
 * Dave Eggers
 * Karen Armstrong
 * Neil Turok

2007
 * Bill Clinton
 * E.O. Wilson
 * James Nachtwey

2006
 * Lawrence Brilliant
 * Jehane Noujaim
 * Cameron Sinclair

2005
 * Robert Fischell
 * Bono
 * Edward Burtynsky

TED Brain Trust
Accessed April 2010:


 * Anna Deavere Smith, Actor, playwright
 * Ashraf Ghani, Chancellor, Kabul University
 * Brian Greene, Physicist
 * Craig Venter, Genomics pioneer
 * Daniel Dennett, Philosopher
 * Daniel Gilbert, Psychologist
 * Danny Hillis, Inventor
 * David Deutsch, Physicist
 * Dean Kamen, Inventor
 * Don Norman, Cognitive scientist
 * Eva Vertes, Student cancer researcher
 * Freeman Dyson, Physicist
 * George Dyson, Science writer
 * Jay Walker, Business inventor
 * Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen Fund
 * Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon
 * John Maeda, MIT Media Lab
 * Joshua Prince-Ramus, Architect
 * Juan Enriquez, Futurist
 * Larry Page, Co-founder, Google
 * Linda Stone, Software visionary
 * Nathan Myrhvold, Polymath
 * Ray Kurzweil, Futurist
 * Richard Dawkins, Biologist
 * Sergey Brin, Co-founder, Google
 * Seth Godin, Marketing guru
 * Sir Ken Robinson, Creativity expert
 * Stefan Sagmeister, Designer
 * Steve Jurvetson, Venture capitalist
 * Steven Pinker, Evolutionary psychologist
 * Stewart Brand, Visionary
 * Sunny Bates, Connector extraordinaire
 * Tierney Thys, Marine biologist
 * Wade Davis, Anthropologist
 * William McDonough, Architect

Contact
URL: http://www.tedprize.org

External Articles

 * Danny Schechter, "Memo to The Media: Forget your Focus on Politicians. How a Teen Summit, Broadway Show, Feature Who the Real Changemakers Are", Global Research, March 29, 2010.
 * Martin Robbins, "The trouble with TED talks", New Statesman, 10 September 2012.

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