President Bill Clinton was never the retiring kind. Post-White House, he has attended many elite meetups -- and started his own. The fifth annual CGI meeting will be September 22 -- 25 in New York. We ranked it, for prestige and publicity, with three other stops on his circuit.READ»
At the TED Global conference this week, a visionary architect shares his clever solution to stop the highly disruptive effects of encroaching desert on the lives of billions of Africans.READ»
Physicist Sean Gourley thinks he may be able to model and predict violence in Iraq.
And it's not just Iraq; Gourley, who works for the San Fransisco-based startup YouNoodle, has used his military side project to map the ...READ»
The hunt is on, to create a real-life Holodeck, and IDEO's designers just got a spin inside one of the leading offerings: The iCube, created by EON Reality. It is a room, measuring 10 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet, that has ...READ»
The AlloSphere is a three-story tall spherical chamber lined on the inside with 360-degree display screens--kind of like an IMAX theater, except panoramic. You view the sphere's content by standing on a breezeway that bisects the ...READ»
Perhaps the most hotly-anticipated, is-it-happening, on-again-off-again movie in recent memory, the live-action film Where the Wild Things Are, based on the classic Maurice Sendak bedtime story, is finally emerging from its dark, ...READ»
Whether or not you think Bill Gates is a sadist probably has a lot to do with whether or not you're a Vista user, but we can all agree that freeing a swarm of mosquitoes into an auditorium is downright cruel. Yet that's just what ...READ»
Tue, February 3 Share Long Beach, California
This ideas fest is bringing back some of its best speakers for its 25th birthday, themed "The Great Unveiling." This slogan refers to the innovations TED promises to premiere, and to its ...READ»
