NerdTV
NerdTV
| 06 September 2005 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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  • Season 1 : 2005 | 13 Episodes

    EP1 Andy Hertzfeld - The first Macintosh programmer...ever Sep 06, 2005

    Andy Hertzfeld, the original Macintosh systems programmer, talks about Mac History and how he fell in love with Open Source software.

    EP2 Max Levchin - Co-founder of PayPal Sep 13, 2005

    Max Levchin, best known for co-founding PayPal, explains why he is starting his 5th through 7th companies and the virtues of staying up all night.

    EP3 Bill Joy - Sun Microsystems Co-founder Sep 20, 2005

    Bill Joy -- the father of Berkeley UNIX -- explains why he was fired from the International House of Pancakes.

    EP4 Brewster Kahle - Internet Archive Founder Sep 27, 2005

    Although Brewster Kahle started and sold companies for big bucks, his true love is capturing the whole Internet at the Internet Archive, which he founded and runs today.

    EP5 Tim O'Reilly - Open Source Pioneer Oct 04, 2005

    Open Source pioneer Tim O'Reilly noticed the free software didn't come with free printed manuals and so a publishing empire was born.

    EP6 Dave Winer - Father of RSS and Web Logging Oct 11, 2005

    Dave Winer has been in the software industry since the days he worked with Mitch Kapor BEFORE Lotus 1-2-3.

    EP7 Dan Drake - Autodesk Co-founder Oct 19, 2005

    Dan Drake and a roomful of friends put together $59,030 and started Autodesk with a bunch of bad ideas and one that panned-out -- AutoCAD. Sometimes one is enough.

    EP8 Avram Miller - Co-founder Intel Capital Oct 28, 2005

    Avram Miller went from playing jazz piano to building DEC's first PC to starting Intel's venture fund.

    EP9 Anina - High Fashion Meets High Tech Nov 09, 2005

    Anina represents the new European tradition in mobile Internet development. And you'd never guess her day job.

    EP10 Dan Bricklin - Inventor of the Spreadsheet Nov 25, 2005

    Dan Bricklin invented the spreadsheet -- personal computing's first killer app -- built and lost the first PC software empire and somehow remains a nice guy filled with ideas.

    EP11 Doug Engelbart - Inventor of the Computer Mouse Dec 09, 2005

    Doug Engelbart invented computer networks, time sharing, graphical user interfaces, and the mouse--all while driving to work one day in 1951. Really.

    EP12 Bob Kahn - Inventer of TCP/IP Jan 30, 2006

    Most nerds know Bob Kahn co-wrote TCP/IP; earlier he worked at Bolt Beranek & Newman where he was the primary architect for the Arpanet.

    EP13 Judy Estrin - Founder, Bridge Communications Apr 10, 2006

    Judy Estrin's career ranges from founder of Bridge Communications to CTO of Cisco to running Packet Design LLC. Quite the girl geek, eh?
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