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Neither laryngitis nor repeated microphone fails could keep Dame Stephanie Shirley from her TED Talk

on Jun 30, 2015

Dame Stephanie Shirley had just a few hours to go before giving her talk at TEDWomen 2013. There was just one problem: she could hardly speak. Shirley, a tech entrepreneur who founded a software company in the 1960s, had flown from London to San Francisco to speak at the conference. Her talk told the story […]

Life stories: A recap of the moving talks in Session 5 of TED2015

By Kate Torgovnick May and Thu-Huong Ha

on Mar 17, 2015

Life stories. Session 5 of TED2015 was dedicated to the kind of personal tales that would make for a great biopic. From the story of two Texans that calls into question what it means to be “American” to a talk from a tech pioneer who founded a software company for women in the 1960s, enjoy our recaps of these […]