Philip K. Howard

Philip K. Howard (born 1948), a lawyer in New York, is perhaps best known as the author of the book The Death of Common Sense (1995), which chronicles the effects of modern law acts like central planning. #TED #Lawyer #People #Author #TED2010

• Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system | Video on TED 2010
• MediaPost Publications Philip Howard - No Society Can Be Run On The Lowest Common Denominator...
• Philip K. Howard: Why Medical Malpractice Reform Is Off Limits - WSJ.com

Raghava KK

Raghava KK is a self-taught artist, born in Bangalore, India in 1980. His work has spanned genres as widely disparate as painting, sculpture, installation, film, performance, and even his own wedding.

• Raghava KK: Five lives of an artist | Video on TED 2010
• ‘I’m grateful to be Indian’ | Deccan Chronicle
• YouTube - RAGHAVA KK & STEM

Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology. In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (officially...

• Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Video on TED 2010
• FORA.tv - Nassim Taleb & Daniel Kahneman: Reflect on Crisis (video)
• Edge Master Class 07: A SHORT COURSE IN THINKING ABOUT THINKING—DANIEL KAHNEMAN

Tim Berners-Lee

• Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | Video on TED.com

Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed...

• Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions | Video on TED 2010
• Sam Harris (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Reason Project: A Non-Profit Dedicated to Reason

LXD

The legion of extraordinary dancers.LXD is a multiplatform franchise with content that will span Internet, live events, wireless, instructional video, film, television, licensing and merchandising.

• The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves ... | Video on TED.com 2010
• YouTube - jonmchu's Channel
• Forget 'Dancing With the Stars' -- Bring on the LXD - ClickZ

Mark Roth

Mark Roth is a biomedical scientist whose pioneering research ranges from molecular mechanisms of genetic regulation to whole-animal physiology to medical diagnostics.

• Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp | Video on TED 2010
• Dr. Mark B. Roth's profile
• Roth Lab (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal (born 1977) is a noted game designer and games researcher, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games.

• Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com
• To fix the real world, play games online – SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs
• ETech 2009: Speaker: Jane McGonigal — O'Reilly Conferences

danah boyd

My name is danah boyd and I am a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I recently completed my PhD at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California...

• danah boyd's official site
• danah's blog
• Video: Interview: Danah Boyd | DISCOVER Magazine

Evan Williams

Evan Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger) and Twitter, of which he is currently CEO.

• Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users | Video o TED 2009
• Evan Williams | Profile on TED.com
• Evan Williams (ev) on Twitter

Valerie Casey

Valerie Casey consults with start-ups, governments, and companies all over the world on challenges ranging from creating new products and services, to transforming organizational processes and behaviors. She was named a "Guru" of the year by Fortune magazine...

• Valerie Casey - Heroes of the Environment 2009 - TIME
• 10 new gurus you should know - Valerie Casey (4) - FORTUNE
• The Designers Accord

Daniel Ek

Daniel Ek is a European serial entrepreneur and a technologist who started his first company 1997 at the age of 14. Daniel's most recent creation (with Martin Lorentzon), is a legal music streaming service Spotify. Daniel has also founded Advertigo, the advertising...

• Daniel Ek of Spotify: we can save music biz - Times Online Oct. 8, 2009
• Video Interview: Spotify Co-Founder Daniel Ek | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsDigital
• Daniel Ek (eldsjal) on Twitter

Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely (born 1968) is an Israeli professor of behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is head of the eRationality research group at the MIT Media Lab.

• Behavioural Economics: Common Mistakes in Daily Decisions - 2008 - Events
• Dan Ariely’s home page at Learn From My Life. Links to his books, articles, videos, podcasts...
• Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video, EG 2008

Jill Tarter

Jill Cornell Tarter (born 16 Jan 1944) is an American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. #TED #SETI

• Jill Tarter - Wikipedia
• Jill Tarter : The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy...
• Jill Tarter (jilltarter) on Twitter

The TED Prize Heroes

A series of short talks from provocateurs, storytellers and pioneers working in the fields of TED prize winners. #TED #TEDPrize #Award

• Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com
• 2010 TED Prize » Jamie Oliver's wish
• 2009 TED Prize » José Abreu's wish

Mark Rolston

Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer, frog design. An early web pioneer, Mark was founder of frog’s digital media group back in 1996 and now orchestrates strategists, technologists, designers and information architects to produce groundbreaking work for Fortune 500 companies...

• Mark Rolston's profile at frog design
• Profile at eCommEurope2009: Emerging Communications Conference: Mark Rolston
• Video: Mark Rolston: Vision of Our Evolving Mobile World - FORA.tv

Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.

• Microsoft Live Labs
• Blaise Aguera Y Arcas | Most Creative People 2009 | Fast Company
• Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Graham Hill

An icon of the contemporary eco-movement, Graham Hill launched TreeHugger in August 2004. Today, it has become the most-frequented green lifestyle site on the Internet. At TED 2010, Graham Hill unveiled "Weekday Veg." A middle-ground between vegetarianism and...

• 'Weekday Veg' Brings One Simple Rule to Sustainable Meat Eating | Sustainable...
• Graham Hill (ghill) on Twitter
• Graham Hill I The Huffington Post

Jim Daly

Cofounder of Business 2.0

• Daly's 3-minute talk at Ted 2010
• Exclusive Interview with Jim Daly, founding editor of Business 2.0 - Internet - BizReport

Kirk Citron

I consult for advertising clients at Citron Haligman. Previously, I founded AKQA, a digital advertising agency which Fast Company has called one of the fifty most innovative companies in the world. I edit The Long News, which tries to find news stories that might still...

• Secrets of the Dead | PBS
• AKQA.COM
• Long News The Long Now Blog