Wednesday, June 24, 2009

TED PRIZE WINNERS - * 2009 * 2008 * 2007 * 2006 * 2005

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2009 Winner Talks

Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter
2009 TED Prize Wish: Cosmic Company

I wish that you would empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company.
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Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle
2009 TED Prize Wish: Ocean Wish

I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.
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José's Abreu

José’s Abreu
2009 TED Prize Wish: Musical Education

I wish you would help create and document a special training program for at least 50 gifted young musicians, passionate for their art and for social justice, and dedicated to developing El Sistema in the US and in other countries.
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2008 Winner Talks

Neil Turok

Neil Turok
2008 TED Prize Wish: An African Einstein

My wish is that you help us unlock and nurture scientific talent across Africa, so that within our lifetimes we are celebrating an African Einstein.
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Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong
2008 TED Prize Wish: Charter for Compassion

I wish that you would help with the creation, launch and propagation of a Charter for Compassion, crafted by a group of leading inspirational thinkers from the three Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and based on the fundamental principles of universal justice and respect.
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Dave Egger

Dave Eggers
2008 TED Prize Wish: Once Upon a School

I wish that you — you personally and every creative individual and organization you know — will find a way to directly engage with a public school in your area, and that you’ll then tell the story of how you got involved, so that within a year we have 1,000 examples of innovative public-private partnerships.
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2007 Winner Talks

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton
2007 TED Prize Wish: A Better Future for Rwanda

I wish you to help create a better future for Rwanda by assisting my foundation, in partnership with the Rwandan Government, to build a sustainable, high quality rural health system for the whole country.
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James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey
2007 TED Prize Wish: The Power of News Photography

I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.
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EO Wilson

EO Wilson
2007 TED Prize Wish: The Preservation of Earth’s Biodiversity

I wish that we will work together to help create the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth’s biodiversity: the Encyclopedia of Life.
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2006 Winner Talks

Larry Brilliant

Dr. Lawrence Brilliant
2006 TED Prize Wish: A Global Detection System

I wish that you would help build a global system to detect each new disease or disaster as quickly as it emerges or occurs.
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Jehane Noujaim

Jehane Noujaim
2006 TED Prize Wish: Togetherness Through Film

I wish to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film.
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Cameron Sinclair

Cameron Sinclair
2006 TED Prize Wish: Open-Source Design

I wish to create a community that actively embraces open-source design to generate innovative and sustainable living standards for all.
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2005 Winner Talks

Bono

Bono
2005 TED Prize Wish: Social Movement for Africa

Wish One: I wish for you to help build a social movement of more than 1 MILLION American activists for Africa.
Wish Two: I wish to tell people ONE BILLION times about ONE, with as much of this as possible before the G8 Africa Summit in July 2005.
Wish Three: I wish for you to show the power of information — its power to rewrite the rules and to transform lives — by connecting every hospital, health clinic, and school in one African country, Ethiopia, to the Internet.
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Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky
2005 TED Prize Wish: Global Sustainability

Wish One: I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
Wish Two: I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
Wish Three: I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience
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Robert Fischell

Robert Fischell
2005 TED Prize Wish: Discover New Cures for Brain Disorders

Wish One: Help me discover new cures for brain disorders utilizing a responsive neurostimulator computer device implanted into the cranial bone connected by wires to electrodes in the brain.
Wish Two: Create the final design for a portable Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator (TMS) that can erase a migraine headache without drugs.
Wish Three: Create a Brain Trust to rethink our approach to medical liability.
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