TED

series of conferences
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TED, series of conferences that promote new ideas and work in a wide variety of human endeavour. TED was founded in 1983 by architect Richard Saul Wurman and television executive Harry Marks, and the first conference was held in February 1984 in Monterey, California. Because the initial conference was not financially successful, the next conference was not held until 1990, and it was not until 1992 that the TED conferences became annual events. In 2001 the conferences were acquired by the Sapling Foundation, a philanthropic organization run by British publisher Chris Anderson. Originally, the emphasis of the conferences was on ...(100 of 329 words)