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TED University @ TED2012
February 28 and March 1, 2012
Program Guide
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TED University Session 1 TED University Session 1
February 28, 2012 | 8:30-10:00 am February 28, 2012 | 8:30-10:00 am
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PROGRAM CURATOR & HOST: NOTES
Bruno Giussani
TED European Director
PRODUCER:
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Janet McCartney
TED Events Director
TED University takes place
in Center Theatre.
“The 100,000-Student “Measuring the Web’s “The Tech and Soul of “A Cinematic Journey
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Classroom” Worldwide Impact” Losing One’s Virginity” Through Visual Effects”
Peter Norvig Steve Bratt NOTES Tor Myhren Don Levy
Professor, Stanford CEO, Web Foundation President/Chief Creative, Senior VP, Sony Pictures
University The profound impact of the Grey Advertising Imageworks
Last fall, with Sebastian Web on humanity is evident, How does the experience Working with the Academy
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Thrun, Peter Norvig taught a yet its nature and extent are of a teenage boy losing his of Motion Picture Arts and
class on artificial intelligence poorly understood. At TED virginity in 2012 compare to Sciences, Don Levy has
at Stanford attended by 175 U, Steve Bratt unveils the the experience of a boy 25 created — exclusively for
students in-situ — and over initial results of a new multi- years earlier? Hint: It’s much TED — a visual journey
100,000 via an interactive dimensional measure that more complicated, even if through special effects, from
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webcast. He shares what he his team is preparing: the the human motivation is the the crude and obvious fakery
learned about teaching to a Web Index. same. of early technology to the
global classroom. seamless marvels of modern
filmmaking.
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“How the Web Is Tracking “The True Power of Texting” “Emotions and Conference “New Insights Into Old
You” Nancy Lublin Calls” Career Paths”
Gary Kovacs CEO, DoSomething.org Gervais Tompkin Rick Smith
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CEO, Mozilla Teenagers know something Principal and Architect, Author, The Leap
Few people realize the extent adults don’t: Texting is a Gensler How do our jobs align with
to which the tracking of our powerful medium. Nancy Gervais Tompkin took a our strengths and passions?
online activities is occurring, Lublin has a plan to use the closer look and discovered With new data, Rick Smith
and who is doing it. Do you humble technology to create that in large companies the discusses how the most sat-
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know where your profile is? a helpline for kids and teens majority of verbal interac- isfying careers may involve
Gary Kovacs will demo a tool — and, in the process, gather tions an employee has in a a good deal of change, and
that visualizes the entities essential data for allocating day are on conference calls. why we have more control
that track our behaviour on resources and confronting He invites us to infuse these over the direction of our
the Web. problems. virtual interactions with a professional path than we
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higher dose of emotion. think.
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TED University Session 1 TED University Session 2
February 28, 2012 | 8:30-10:00 am March 1, 2012 | 8:30-10:00 am
NOTES NOTES
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“New Visions of the Middle “Re-Learning India” “What Are They Building “The New War and Peace”
East” Vani Kola Under Ground Zero?” Jim Hake
Esra’a Al Shafei Managing director, IUVP Steven Rosenbaum Founder and CEO, Spirit
Founder, Mideast Youth / Vani Kola grew up in India, CEO, Magnify; Author, of America
TED Senior Fellow then spent her adult life in Curation Nation Learn more about the US’
Drawing on a series of the US as a student and tech In the fall of 2012, the 9/11 new “soft power” approach
examples, Esra’a Al Shafei entrepreneur. Returning to Memorial Museum will to preventing conflicts and
discusses how some of the India as a venture capitalist open in New York. Steven helping at-risk countries
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untold stories of change in in 2006, she experienced Rosenbaum shares never- achieve stability. Involving
the Middle East are stories of her own version of a culture seen-before photographs military-civilian and
smart use of technology — clash — rich in learnings. and videos of the design, public-private collabora-
and of activists thinking like construction and artifacts tion, soft power is based on
entertainers. now being prepared for the decentralization, networks
public. and open systems.
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“The Unseen Future of “The Real Father of Yosemite” “Saving Faces” “Living Sea Sculpture”
Exploration” Jim Scheinman Sharmeen Obaid Colleen Flanigan
Nathan Wolfe Founder and CEO, Maven Chinoy Artist / TED Senior Fellow
Biologist, Founder & CEO, Ventures Filmmaker / TED Senior Can art play a role in solving
Global Viral Forecasting Everyone knows the mag- Fellow our ecological problems?
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Is there anything left to nificent beauty of Yosemite, Hundreds of women in Colleen Flanigan has
explore on Earth? Well, yes, but almost no one knows Pakistan are victims of embraced “art as ecol-
argues Stanford biologist the name of the park’s acid violence every year. ogy,” using biorock mineral
and National Geographic founder: Galen Clark. Jim Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy accretion (a technology for
emerging explorer Nathan Scheinman discusses how has been documenting the coral reef restoration) in her
Wolfe: Everything remains to Clark epitomized, in his own case of two women and sculptures. A creative shift
be discovered in the unseen pioneering way, the Silicon their fight to, literally, save with marine life impact.
microbial world. Valley spirit. their faces (and their lives),
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a story of contractions and
empowerment.
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March 1, 2012 | 8:30-10:00 am March 1, 2012 | 8:30-10:00 am
NOTES NOTES
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“Imaging and Imagining “Music of Multiplicity” / “How I Beat a Patent Troll” “Learning from Sci-Fi
Metamorphosis” Performance Drew Curtis Interfaces”
Manu Prakash Meklit Hadero Founder and CEO, Fark. Nathan Shedroff
Asst. professor, Stanford / Singer and cultural activ- com Program Chair, MBA in
TED Senior Fellow ist / TED Senior Fellow In January 2011, Fark.com Design Strategy, CCA
By developing new in-vivo Meklit Hadero’s music is was sued by a patent troll Together with a colleague,
imaging techniques, Manu imbued with poetry and along with eight other tech professor Nathan Shedroff
Prakash and his colleagues multiplicity, drawing from companies. Fark managed to has just finished a multi-
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are teasing out the mechan- her Ethiopian heritage, from settle for $0 and avoid sign- year project discovering
ics of animal metamorpho- folk, jazz and rock and roll. ing an NDA — which will interface lessons from
sis. At TED U, he shows the She will perform with trum- allow Drew Curtis to decrypt science-fiction films and TV.
first X-ray microscopy video peter Darren Johnston. the absurdities of patent
of an insect transforming lawsuit mechanisms.
from a larva into an adult fly.
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“Tax the Rich to Support the “The New Cryptomoney: A “404: The Story of a Page “Transformative
Job Creators” Bitcoin Primer” Not Found” Connections”
Nick Hanauer Bill Barhydt Renny Gleeson Jeffrey Walker
Entrepreneur, venture Founder and CEO, m-Via Director Interactive Lecturer, social
capitalist Three years ago, an anony- Strategy, Wieden + entrepreneur
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The super-rich are not mous hacker released the Kennedy In recent years, the
“job creators,” argues Nick first anonymous, peer- It is probably the only page Jeffersonian Dinner — mod-
Hanauer — who’s one of to-peer, cryptographically that every Web user has eled on those hosted by
them. Only consumers can elegant, unstoppable digital seen: the “Page not found” Thomas Jefferson 200 years
set in motion the ecosys- currency: Bitcoin. What is error, known as “404”. It’s a ago — has spread as a format
temic feedback loop that it? How does it work? Will it neglected piece of the user for engaged, connective
creates jobs. That’s why tax become mainstream? And: experience. A bunch of discussion. Jeffrey Walker
cuts for the rich don’t stimu- Who is its creator? tech startups wrestled with has moderated many, and
late the economy. their “404,” and learned a few will share his insights.
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unexpected things.
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