NerdTV

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NerdTV is PBS's new tech TV show. NerdTV is not aired; instead each episode is released as a MPEG-4 video file, freely downloadable and licensed under a Creative Commons license. Transcripts and audio-only versions of the released episodes are available as well.

The show features Robert X. Cringely interviewing famous and influential nerds. Each episode is about one hour and features a single guest from the world of technology. Initially, a new episode was released on the Internet approximately every week but the pace of releases slowed down in late 2005/early 2006. Thirteen episodes comprising the first season have been released and another twelve have been promised for season two (in "late summer" after an initial delay [1]), along with a more consistent release schedule and better quality video files.

Contents

Date Transcript Guest Most remembered as
2005-09-06 NerdTV #1 Andy Hertzfeld Macintosh operating system programmer
2005-09-13 NerdTV #2 Max Levchin PayPal co-founder
2005-09-20 NerdTV #3 Bill Joy Sun Microsystems co-founder
2005-09-27 NerdTV #4 Brewster Kahle Internet Archive founder
2005-10-04 NerdTV #5 Tim O'Reilly Internet publisher
2005-10-11 NerdTV #6 Dave Winer Father of RSS
2005-10-19 NerdTV #7 Dan Drake Autodesk co-founder
2005-10-28 NerdTV #8 Avram Miller Intel Capital co-founder
2005-11-09 NerdTV #9 Anina Mobile-oriented model
2005-11-25 NerdTV #10 Dan Bricklin Spreadsheet inventor
2005-12-09 NerdTV #11 Doug Engelbart Computer mouse inventor
2006-01-30 NerdTV #12 Bob Kahn TCP/IP inventor
2006-04-10 NerdTV #13 Judy Estrin Internet entrepreneur

This episode is one of the first where subject is not an entrepreneur, which is to say he didn't create a company that was successful, though he did facilitate many successful startup companies through his investment portfolio while at Intel. The show follows his career in chronological including:

  • Biotech (although the term didn't exist yet) experiences with brain-wave analysis
  • networked computer monitoring in the hospital environment in the mid-late 1960s
  • starting & running a company in Israel at the end of the War of Attrition
  • working with Ken Olsen for Digital Equipment Corporation around the time of IBM's launch of the PC
  • to finally joining Intel and working with them to develop numerous new ideas, and venture capitalist investments Intel Capital

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