TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference previously hel in Monterey, California but as of 2009 will be held in Long Beach, California. It defines its mission as "ideas worth spreading", and indeed the best talks given at TED are made available to the public for free on its website. Its lectures cover a broad set of topics including science, arts, design, politics, global issues, architecture, music and more. The speakers themselves are from a wide variety of communities and disciplines and have included such people as former US president Bill Clinton,Nobel laureates James D. Watson and Murray Gell-Mann , television producer and political activist Norman Lear, Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The TED Conference also has a companion conference, TED Global, held in varying locations.