NerdTV

NerdTV
NerdTV logo
Format	Interview Show
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Broadcast
Original run	September 6, 2005 – April 10, 2006
External links
Website

NerdTV is a technology TV show from PBS. 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. From late 2005 through early 2006, thirteen episodes comprising Season One were released on the Internet. Another twelve episodes have been promised for Season Two (in "late summer [of 2007]" after an initial delay [1]), 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
2005-10-19	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 the 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

External links

• NerdTV homepage
• Robert X. Cringely article on NerdTV