NerdTV

NerdTV is a technology TV show from PBS. NerdTV is 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.

NerdTV
GenreInterview Show
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
ProducerPBS
Production locationUnited States
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkPBS
Picture format16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Audio formatStereo
Original releaseSeptember 6 (2005-09-06) 
November 29, 2005 (2005-11-29)
External links
Website

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. From September 6, 2005 to November 29, 2005, thirteen episodes comprising Season One were released on the Internet. Another thirteen episodes have been promised for Season Two, along with a more consistent release schedule and better quality video files.

Schedule

DateTranscriptGuestMost remembered as
2005-09-06NerdTV #1Andy HertzfeldMacintosh operating system programmer
2005-09-13NerdTV #2Max LevchinPayPal co-founder
2005-09-20NerdTV #3Bill JoySun Microsystems co-founder
2005-09-27NerdTV #4Brewster KahleInternet Archive founder
2005-10-04NerdTV #5Tim O'ReillyInternet publisher
2005-10-11NerdTV #6Dave WinerFather of RSS
2005-10-18NerdTV #7Dan DrakeAutodesk co-founder
2005-10-25NerdTV #8Avram MillerIntel Capital co-founder
2005-11-01NerdTV #9AninaMobile-oriented model
2005-11-08NerdTV #10Dan BricklinSpreadsheet inventor
2005-11-15NerdTV #11Doug EngelbartComputer mouse inventor
2005-11-22NerdTV #12Bob KahnTCP/IP inventor
2005-11-29NerdTV #13Judy EstrinInternet entrepreneur

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 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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