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. Twelve episodes comprising the first season have been released and another twelve have been promised for season two (in "early summer"), along with a more consistent release schedule.
Schedule
| 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 |
Episode Highlights
NerdTV008 - Avram Miller
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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