Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study & as it works one-on-one with each pat...
Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia & Linux represent th...
All humans share some common bits of DNA, passed down to us from our African ancestors. Geneticist S...
Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people by b...
Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is ...
Photographer Rick Smolan tells the unforgettable story of a young Amerasian girl, a fateful photogra...
Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief & ritual that makes us human. He shar...
Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives & change t...
Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter & out past N...
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Description: In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups & companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles & fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. http://www.ted.com
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Considers how Web services require defining a new meaning for local, in which different kinds of applications operate within different network horizons. Understanding these context horizons, and creating the tools and techniques for managin...
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In 1937, Ronald Coase answered one of the most perplexing questions in economics: if markets are so great, why do organizations exist? Why don't people just buy and sell their own services in a market instead? Coase, who won the 1991 Nobel ...
Abstract: Regional health information exchanges in California, Indiana, and Massachusetts have been collaborating on a prototype for a nationwide health information network, first under the auspices of the Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health program and ...
Abstract: Health information technology (IT) has great potential to transform health care and inform population health goals in clinical research, quality measurement, and public safety. To fully realize the benefits of health IT for population health, we must...
Abstract: One of the biggest obstacles to expanding the use of information technology (IT) in health care may be the current narrow focus on how to stimulate its adoption. The challenge of thinking of IT as a tool to improve quality requires serious attention ...