NerdTV
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| NerdTV | |
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| Genre | Interview Show |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Producer | PBS |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | PBS |
| Release | September 6 – November 29, 2005 |
NerdTV was a technology TV show from PBS. NerdTV was not aired, instead each episode was released as a MPEG-4 video file, freely downloadable and licensed under a Creative Commons license.[1] Transcripts and audio-only versions of the released episodes were available as well.
The show features Robert X. Cringely interviewing famous and influential nerds. Each episode was about one hour and features a single guest from the world of technology. From September 6, 2005 to November 29, 2005, thirteen episodes comprising Season One were released on the Internet.[2] Another thirteen episodes were promised for Season Two, in which the show was renamed SuperNerds, along with a more consistent release schedule and better quality video files. Season Two was never created.
| Date | Guest | Most remembered as | Archive.org Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-09-06 | Andy Hertzfeld | Macintosh operating system programmer | Watch |
| 2005-09-13 | Max Levchin | PayPal co-founder | Watch |
| 2005-09-20 | Bill Joy | Sun Microsystems co-founder | Watch |
| 2005-09-27 | Brewster Kahle | Internet Archive founder | Watch |
| 2005-10-04 | Tim O'Reilly | Internet publisher | Watch |
| 2005-10-11 | Dave Winer | Father of RSS | Watch |
| 2005-10-18 | Dan Drake | Autodesk co-founder | Watch |
| 2005-10-25 | Avram Miller | Intel Capital co-founder | Watch |
| 2005-11-01 | Anina | Mobile-oriented model | Watch |
| 2005-11-08 | Dan Bricklin | Spreadsheet inventor | Watch |
| 2005-11-15 | Doug Engelbart | Computer mouse inventor | Watch |
| 2005-11-22 | Bob Kahn | TCP/IP inventor | Watch |
| 2005-11-29 | Judy Estrin | Internet entrepreneur | Watch |
Episode highlights
NerdTV008 – Avram Miller
This episode is one of the first where the subject (Avram Miller) 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 chronologically follows his career, 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 1960.
- 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.