NerdTV
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. Transcripts and audio-only versions of the released episodes were available as well.
| 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 |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS |
| Original release | September 6 – November 29, 2005 |
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. 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.
Schedule
| 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.