“NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks – a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology. Guests like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak are household names if your household is nerdy enough, but as historical figures and geniuses in their own right, they have plenty to say to ALL of us. NerdTV is distributed under a Creative Commons license so viewers can legally share the shows with their friends and even edit their own versions. If not THE future of television, NerdTV represents A future of television for niche audiences that have deep interest in certain topics.”
2005 Schedule
September 6 Macintosh operating system programmer Andy Hertzfeld
September 13 PayPal co-founder Max Levchin
September 20 Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy
September 27 Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak
October 4 Internet publisher Tim O’Reilly
October 11 Autodesk co-founder Dan Drake
October 18 TCP/IP inventor Bob Kahn
October 25 Computer mouse inventor Doug Engelbart
November 1 Former Lotus chief scientist Jerry Kaplan
November 8 Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle
November 15 Amazon CTO and former Apple chief scientist Larry Tesler
November 22 Google CEO Eric Schmidt
November 29 The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds