NerdTV

NerdTV

NerdTV logo
Genre Interview Show
Country of origin  United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 13
Production
Producer(s) PBS
Location(s) United States
Running time 30 minutes
Release
Original network PBS
Picture format 16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format Stereo
Original release September 6, 2005 – November 29, 2005
External links
Website

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.

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 twelve episodes have been promised for Season Two (in late summer after an initial delay ), along with a more consistent release schedule and better quality video files.

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
2005-10-18 NerdTV #7 Dan Drake Autodesk co-founder
2005-10-25 NerdTV #8 Avram Miller Intel Capital co-founder
2005-11-01 NerdTV #9 Anina Mobile-oriented model
2005-11-08 NerdTV #10 Dan Bricklin Spreadsheet inventor
2005-11-15 NerdTV #11 Doug Engelbart Computer mouse inventor
2005-11-22 NerdTV #12 Bob Kahn TCP/IP inventor
2005-11-29 NerdTV #13 Judy Estrin Internet 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 follows his career in chronological including:

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, March 13, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.