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Richard Saul Wurman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Saul Wurman (March 26, 1935) is an architect and graphic designer who coined the phrase 'Information Architecture' and is considered to be a pioneer in the practice of making information easily understandable. Wurman has written and designed over 83 books, and created the TED conference , as well as the EG conference, TEDMED and the WWW suite of gatherings, now in development. [ edit ] Early life and education Wurman was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . He received both his M.
TED Quotes: Facts, insight and humor from TEDTalks — in shareable bites
“If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out. We can't just drill our way out. We can't bomb our way out.
Chris Anderson (born 1957) is the curator of TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), which hosts conferences in the US and Europe each year and an open-access website where TED talks can be viewed by the public. Previously he founded Future Publishing . [ edit ] Life and career
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Ted – the ultimate forum for blue-sky thinking | Technology | The Observer
So, what is TED ? And, more important, why should I care? For 22 years, Ted was a conference, an exclusive ideas forum where the great and the good came to hear Al Gore talk about climate change and Bill Gates about computing, right up until four years ago, when TED Talks was launched online and promptly became an internet sensation. It's a bit like YouTube, but instead of featuring cats falling into lavatories, it has short, cutting-edge talks by the world's leading neuroscientists, behavioural economists, video artists, philosophers, particle physicists, rocket scientists, endurance athletes, Aids researchers… you name it, it's been at TED. What TED does is seek out the most interesting, unusual and potentially groundbreaking ideas on Earth and then provide a platform to share them with the world. At the heart of it all are the conferences.
