Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I Make Robots the Size of a Grain of Rice
Associate Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter packs advanced technologies into tiny robots that can overcome obstacles 80 times their height. By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Prof. Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies — and then they add rockets!
Rob Prestowitz: All in the Family: Crackheads, Skinheads, and Angels
Rob Prestowitz makes a difference in the Delaware community by taking a holistic approach in serving hundreds of high risk urban youth and their families. ABOUT TEDx TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, ‘ideas worth spreading’. The programme is designed to give communities, organisations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through […]
Linus Torvalds: The Mind Behind Linux
Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice. First with the Linux kernel which helps power the internet, and again with Git, a version control system (VCS) for tracking changes in computer files and co-ordinating work on those files among multiple people. It’s primarily used for software development but it can be used to keep track of changes […]
Brian Sweeney: The New Zealand Story
Brian Sweeney is the New York-based Chairman of SweeneyVesty, a global corporate communications company founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 1987 with Jane Vesty, an international leader in Public Relations. He is dedicated to the idea of New Zealand exporting its services, innovation and creativity, and to the related positioning and communications New Zealand must […]
Suzanne Barakat: Islamophobia Killed My Brother. Let’s End the Hate
On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat’s brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor’s sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The perpetrator’s story, that he killed them over a traffic dispute, went unquestioned by the media and police until Suzanne Barakat spoke out at a press conference, calling the murders […]
