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Director of Avatar (Photo of James Cameron by Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press) This bag is on James Cameron's life profile, movie financing, movie making technique, the review of his work, analysis of his female characters and many more. #People #Celebrity...
John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Together with KPCB's partners, John has backed many of America's best entrepreneurial leaders. #TED #VC #KPCB #Investor #People
John Kasaona is a leader in the drive to reinvent conservation in Namibia -- turning poachers into protectors of species. #TED #TED2010 #Namibia #People
Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin are co-founder of KIPP. KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life. There are currently 82...
George M. Whitesides (b. August 3, 1939, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. As of March 2008, he has the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists. #TED #TED2010 #People #Chemist #Harvard #TEDxBoston
Chip Conley (born 1960, Orange, California) is an American hotelier, author, and speaker. Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which he began in 1987 at age 26. #TED #TED2010 #People #Author #Hotelier
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. #TED #TED2010
Ethan Zuckerman is the recently-announced director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, officially starting in September 2011. Ethan has been a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he is also a long-time fellow. His work at the Berkman...
Bill Gates is founder of Microsoft. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people.During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent...
John Steven Underkoffler was born in Pennsylvania under a large tree. He spent half his life reading Goethe under that tree, and the other half under a different tree, building dams. He shimmers sometimes in the moonlight and when he goes home late at night, he illuminates...
Christopher "moot" Poole is the founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering - and influential - subculture. #TED #TED2010
Kevin Bales is a world expert on slavery and has freed many slaves. He is president of Free the Slaves, an organization whose mission is to end slavery and share slaves' stories. Bales was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his book Disposable People: New Slavery...
Stewart Brand is a futurist, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the author of several books, most recently Whole Earth Discipline...
Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Stanford University and director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program there. Jacobson develops computer models about the effects of different energy technologies and their emissions on air pollution...
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. #TED #TED2010
Elizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a journalist and epidemiologist best known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of #AIDS. #TED #TED2010 #People #Journalist #Epidemiologist
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is an internist and social scientist. His current research focuses on health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health, disability, health behavior, health care, and death in one person can influence the same phenomena...
New Yorker Staff Writer Covering Science, Technology, and Public Health Issues; Author. #TED #TED2010 #People #Author #Writer #Health
As founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb craze, alien sightings and other popular beliefs and paranoias. But it's not about debunking for debunking's sake...
Esther Duflo (born October 25, 1972) is a French economist, currently the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also co-founder of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and in 2009 was...
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