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Kevin Bales Anti-slavery activist |
Kevin Bales is the co-founder of Free the Slaves, whose mission is to end all forms of human slavery within the next 25 years. He's the author of "Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves." |
Session 5: Provocation Thurs Feb 11, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Marian Bantjes Designer, illustrator, typographer |
At the intersection of word and form, Marian Bantjes makes her art. |
Session 9: Imagination Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Dan Barber Chef |
Dan Barber is a chef and a scholar -- relentlessly pursuing the stories and reasons behind the foods we grow and eat. |
Session 2: Discovery Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Seth Berkley Vaccine researcher |
Epidemiologist Seth Berkley is leading the charge to develop a vaccine against HIV -- and to make sure vaccines are available for those living in the developing world. |
Session 7: Breakthrough Thurs Feb 11, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Andrew Bird Musician |
Andrew Bird is a virtual one-man band -- he’s a singer and songwriter and plays the violin, guitar, glockenspiel. |
Session 7: Breakthrough Thurs Feb 11, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Stewart Brand Futurist |
Since the counterculture Sixties, Stewart Brand has been a critical thinker and innovator who helped lay the foundations of our internetworked world. |
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Session 5: Provocation Thurs Feb 11, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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David Byrne Musician, artist |
David Byrne builds an idiosyncratic world of music, art, writing and film. |
Session 6: Invention Thurs Feb 11, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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James Cameron Director |
James Cameron is the director of Avatar, Titanic, Terminator, The Abyss and many other blockbusters. While his outsize films push the bounds of technology, they're always anchored in human stories with heart and soul. |
Session 12: Wisdom Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Nicholas Christakis Physician, social scientist |
Nicholas Christakis explores how the large-scale, face-to-face social networks in which we are embedded affect our lives, and what we can do to take advantage of this fact |
Session 4: Reason Thurs Feb 11, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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George Church Molecular technologist |
A pioneer in genome sequencing and genome engineering (reading and writing DNA), George Church invented some of the engineering methods that created the era of the personal genome. |
Session 8: Boldness Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Chip Conley CEO, author |
Chip Conley creates joyful hotels, where he hopes his employees, customers and investors alike can realize their full potential. His books share that philosophy with the wider world. |
Session 11: Simplicity Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Sheryl Crow Singer/songwriter, activist |
Sheryl Crow's confessional, personal music has become the soundtrack to a generation. |
Session 3: Action. The 2010 TED Prize Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Mike Feinberg Dave Levin Educators |
Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin are the founders of KIPP, a network of revolutionary schools with life-changing results for underserved kids across the country. |
Session 8: Boldness Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Esther Duflo Development economist |
Esther Duflo takes economics out of the lab and into the field to discover the causes of poverty and means to eradicate it. |
Session 1: Mindshift Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Denis Dutton Philosopher |
Denis Dutton is a philosophy professor and the editor of Arts & Letters Daily. In his book The Art Instinct, he suggests that humans are hard-wired to seek beauty. |
Session 9: Imagination Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Eve Ensler Playwright, activist |
Eve Ensler created the ground-breaking Vagina Monologues, whose success propelled her to found V-Day -- a movement to end violence against women and girls everywhere. |
Session 10: Play Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Ethel String quartet |
Ethel is, perhaps, the first 21st-century realization of the classical string quartet. |
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Session 11: Simplicity Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Ze Frank Humorist, web artist |
Ze Frank rose to Internet fame in 2001 with his viral video “How to Dance Properly,” and has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences ever since. |
Session 12: Wisdom Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Bill Gates Philanthropist |
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world once, while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. He plans to do it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation. |
Session 8: Boldness Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Temple Grandin Livestock handling designer, autism activist |
Through groundbreaking research and the lens of her own autism, Temple Grandin brings startling insight into two worlds. |
Session 9: Imagination Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Sam Harris Neuroscientist and philosopher |
Adored by secularists, feared by the pious, Sam Harris' best-selling books argue that religion is ruinous and, worse, stupid -- and that questioning religious faith might just save civilization. |
Session 4: Reason Thurs Feb 11, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Cheryl Hayashi Spider silk scientist |
Cheryl Hayashi studies the delicate but terrifically strong silk threads that make up a spider's web, finding startling applications for human use. |
Session 2: Discovery Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Philip K. Howard Legal activist |
Philip Howard is the founder of Common Good, a drive to overhaul the US legal system. His new book is Life Without Lawyers. |
Session 11: Simplicity Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Mark Z. Jacobson Civil and environmental engineer |
At Stanford, Mark Z. Jacobson uses numerical models to study the effects of energy systems and vehicles on climate and air pollution, and to analyze renewable energy resources. |
Session 5: Provocation Thurs Feb 11, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Raghava KK Artist |
Raghava KK's paintings and drawings use cartoonish shapes and colors to examine the body, society, our world. |
Session 9: Imagination Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Daniel Kahneman Behavioral economics founder |
Widely regarded as the world's most influential living psychologist, Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics -- exploring the irrational ways we make decisions about risk. |
Session 1: Mindshift Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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John Kasaona Conservationist |
John Kasaona is a pioneer of community-based conservation -- working with the people who use and live on fragile land to enlist them in protecting it. |
Session 12: Wisdom Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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The LXD Dance adventurers |
The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) are building an interactive web series that represents the next evolution of dance. |
Session 6: Invention Thurs Feb 11, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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William Li Cancer researcher |
William Li heads the Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit that is re-conceptualizing global disease fighting. |
Session 2: Discovery Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Benoit Mandelbrot Mathematician |
Benoit Mandelbrot is the pioneer of fractals, a broad and powerful tool in the study of many forms of roughness, in nature and in humanity's works -- including even art. |
Session 11: Simplicity Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Jane McGonigal Game designer |
Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how. |
Session 6: Invention Thurs Feb 11, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Natalie Merchant Singer/songwriter |
Natalie Merchant's career spans three decades -- as the leader of 10,000 Maniacs and in her own solo work -- of making warmly personal music. |
Session 10: Play Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Nathan Myhrvold Polymath |
Nathan Myhrvold is a professional jack-of-all-trades. After leaving Microsoft in 1999, he's been a world barbecue champion, a wildlife photographer, a chef, a contributor to SETI, and a volcano explorer. |
Session 6: Invention Thurs Feb 11, 2010 2:15 – 4:00 |
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Jamie Oliver Chef, activist |
Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. |
Session 3: Action. The 2010 TED Prize Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Ozomatli Latin/hip-hop/funk/salsa band |
Ozomatli's music will take you around the world by taking you around LA -- blending the world's cultures into a danceable mix. |
Pine Street Block Party Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:00 – 10:30 |
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Elizabeth Pisani Epidemiologist |
Elizabeth Pisani uses unconventional field research to understand how real-world behaviors influence AIDS transmission -- and to overhaul antiquated, ineffective prevention strategies. |
Session 4: Reason Thurs Feb 11, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Christopher "moot" Poole Founder, 4chan |
Christopher "moot" Poole is founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering -- and influential -- subculture. |
Session 5: Provocation Thurs Feb 11, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Ken Robinson Author/educator |
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. |
Session 12: Wisdom Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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David Rockwell Architect, experience designer |
Architect David Rockwell draws on his love of drama and spectacle to create fantastic, high-impact restaurants, malls, airline terminals, theater sets -- and playgrounds. |
Session 10: Play Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Mark Roth Biochemist, cell biologist |
Mark Roth's research has reawakened an unusual notion from the annals of science: reversible metabolic hibernation. Yes, putting living organisms into suspended animation -- and bringing them back safely. |
Session 7: Breakthrough Thurs Feb 11, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Michael Sandel Political philosopher |
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard. His new book, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, explores some of the most hotly contested moral and political issues of our time. |
Session 5: Provocation Thurs Feb 11, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Michael Shermer Skeptic |
Michael Shermer debunks myths, superstitions and urban legends, and explains why we believe them. Along with publishing Skeptic Magazine, he's author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Mind of the Market. |
Session 1: Mindshift Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Jake Shimabukuro Ukulele virtuoso |
To Jake Shimabukuro, the ukulele means more than grass skirts and loud shirts. He's on a mission to revolutionize our perception of the four-string, two-octave instrument. |
Session 1: Mindshift Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Sarah Silverman Comedian |
Brilliant, funny, political and always inappropriate, ladies and gentlemen, it's Sarah Silverman. |
Session 10: Play Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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Michael Specter Writer |
Michael Specter is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book, Denialism, asks why we have increasingly begun to fear scientific advances instead of embracing them. |
Session 4: Reason Thurs Feb 11, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Adora Svitak Child prodigy |
A prolific short story writer and blogger since age seven, Adora Svitak (now 12) speaks around the United States to adults and children as an advocate for literacy. |
Session 12: Wisdom Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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The TED Prize Heroes Provocateurs, storytellers, pioneers |
A series of short talks from provocateurs, storytellers and pioneers working in the fields of our TED Prize winners. |
Session 3: Action. The 2010 TED Prize Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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John Underkoffler Interface designer |
Remember the data interface from Minority Report? Well, it's real, John Underkoffler invented it -- as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak -- and it's about to change the way we interact with data. |
Session 8: Boldness Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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George Whitesides Chemist |
In his legendary career in chemistry, George Whitesides has been a pioneer in microfabrication and nanoscale self-assembly. Now, he's fabbing a diagnostic lab on a chip. |
Session 11: Simplicity Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:30 – 10:15 |
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Valerie Plame Wilson Former CIA covert operations officer |
Valerie Plame Wilson is a former CIA operative whose covert identity was revealed in 2003. During her CIA career, she ran counter-proliferation task forces, ultimately focusing on Iraq and the hunt for WMDs. |
Session 5: Provocation Thurs Feb 11, 2010 11:00 – 12:45 |
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Stephen Wolfram Scientist, inventor |
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. |
Session 7: Breakthrough Thurs Feb 11, 2010 5:00 – 6:45 |
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