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Country of origin
  
United States

No. of episodes
  
13

Location(s)
  
United States

First episode date
  
6 September 2005

Network
  
PBS

Language
  
English

Original language(s)
  
English

Producer(s)
  
PBS

Running time
  
30 minutes

Final episode date
  
29 November 2005

Number of episodes
  
13

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Genres
  
Miniseries, Special Interest

Similar
  
Triumph of the Nerds, Craft in America, Science Bytes, Thomas Jefferson, America Revealed

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 [1]), along with a more consistent release schedule and better quality video files.

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
  • References

    NerdTV Wikipedia