At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.
Doerr is known for being the backer of Google and Amazon.com, and for his teary performances at the TED conference.
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Here is VC alpha dog John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, speaking at the TED Conference in March.
At the TED Conference for 2010, Mr. Shimabukuro's pyrotechnics rated a tweet from Bill Gates and handshakes from Al Gore and Matt Groening.
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"There's no air in space to compress to ring against your ear, " she told CNN in an interview at the TED conference in Long Beach, California, in March.
At the TED conference this week, Jawbone CEO and cofounder Hosain Rahman unveiled a new product called UP, a handsome-looking flexible bracelet packed with vibration and motion sensors and wireless radio chips.
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Popularized in the 1970s, they have increased significantly in number but perhaps the best known of the genre is the TED conference, which is held twice a year and has spawned a series of offshoots.
These are some of the questions on offer this week in Oxford as the TEDGlobal conference gets under way in the U.K. Idea forums are a dime a dozen, but the TED conference stands out.
OXFORD, ENGLAND -- At the TED conference, Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School, made a laugh-out-loud defense of the Internet as a place not of unruly and nasty bloggers, but a place that has its own emerging set of ethics, rules and principles.
In a talk he gave at the TED conference in 2006, Dr. Dean Ornish, who first became well known for talking up the benefits of diet and exercise in fighting heart disease, told a story about a year he spent studying under a well-known swami.
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British financial historian Niall Ferguson breezed through the TED Global conference this morning.
Brandt hasn't read Sandberg's book yet, but she's watched her now-famous 2010 talk to the annual TED conference that went viral.
This Chris Anderson, not the author of Free, runs the exclusive TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design), which began in 1984 as an invite-only hobnob session for thought leaders.
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Tristram Stuart, who wrote Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, was invited to the prestigious TED Conference this year and gave a passionate, and convincing, talk about food waste.
Two of its representatives spoke at the TED Global conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday about how their one-year-old company was aiming to become a platform for sharing augmented reality-style content through mobile phones.
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This column was adopted from a presentation at the most recent TED conference.
The spread of the videos fueled demand for more TED events than the conference group was able to produce.
Jonathan Gosier, one of the TED Fellows at the conference here, presented his project called QuestionBox that promises to bring answers to the curious in the most remote parts of the developing world.
The curator of the conference and the winner of the TED Prize - this woman, she got her wish granted, literally.
Recently, seasoned political operatives Karl Rove and James Carville discussed the issue with Ted Koppel at a conference.
"Good news has become a near-extinct species, " said Bruno Giussani, European director of TED at the opening of the conference.
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The annual TED prize, handed out by organisers of the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, has gone Dr Sugata Mitra, from Newcastle University.
Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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Far from robbing the conference of its crown jewels, the move has been transformative, both for TED and for some of the speakers who have achieved an unexpected new form of celebrity.
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The conference was a first of a kind Pan-regional unconference (a cross between TED and TechCrunch for the Middle East).
At her company's headquarters, which sits in the same San Francisco building as Twitter and Yammer, the Givenchy-and-Balenciaga-clad Ms. Pincus described going to last year's TED conference in Long Beach, Calif.
"This is the brain trust of the New Economy, right here, " said TED organizer Chris Anderson , a British publisher who a couple of years ago set up the conference as a nonprofit organization.
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