You might already have read it all over Twitter today: TEDx is celebrating its 4th birthday. This is still young, but in those 4 years, there have been:
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– 6417 events
– in 1777 cities
– and 149 countries
– with 25’800 TEDxTalks on YouTube
– and almost 80 million views
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TEDx has gathered thousands of passionate people around the world. So on this day, we say thank you. We are proud to be a part of this and looking forward to lots of new ideas worth spreading ahead of us.
Sarah Ebling holds a professorship in Accessibility Studies at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and is a senior researcher at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on natural language processing in the context of disabilities and special needs, specifically, sign language technology and automatic text simplification. Her groups’ contributions involve artificial intelligence techniques with a strong emphasis on user involvement. She is involved in various international and national projects and leads a large-scale Swiss innovation initiative entitled „Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies“ (2022-2026; https://www.iict.uzh.ch/).
