PickVidsBest Tech pioneers & interviews Videos
The 369 Tech pioneers & interviews videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 91 intermediate, 272 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an interview. What they share is that the guest explains a past choice instead of reciting a glossary. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Computer History Museum, PowerfulJRE.
Jim Simons (full length interview) - Numberphile
The full-length Numberphile interview with mathematician and hedge fund founder Jim Simons.
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford commencement address, built around three stories: connecting the dots, love and loss including being fired from Apple, and death.
Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
Alan Kay's 2009 UIUC talk arguing that computing is more a pop culture than a science and that ignoring history and fundamentals leads to inferior solutions.
Growing a Language, by Guy Steele
Guy Steele's 1998 OOPSLA keynote on designing a programming language that its users can grow.
A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
John Ousterhout, Stanford professor and creator of Tcl, presents the ideas of his book A Philosophy of Software Design in a Talks at Google session.
"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
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VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan interviews Unix co-creator Ken Thompson at VCF East 2019.
Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
Richard Hamming's 1995 recording of his talk 'You and Your Research', drawn from his graduate engineering course.
Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Linus Torvalds gives a Google tech talk on git, the source control system he created two years earlier.
Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival
Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at the Intertwingled festival, presented using a revived Smalltalk-78 system running on emulated 1970s Xerox PARC hardware.
Joe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets
A two-hour Joe Rogan Experience conversation with mycologist Paul Stamets about fungi, mycelium, bioremediation and medicinal mushrooms.
"Money doesn't interest me" - Ton Roosendaal 2017 Interview
A long interview by Blender Guru with Ton Roosendaal, creator of Blender.
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
The full recording of Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demonstration, which introduced the mouse, hypertext, video conferencing, word processing, and real-time collaborative editing.
Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70
Lex Fridman interviews legendary chip architect Jim Keller about Moore's Law, microprocessor design, and first-principles thinking.
Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
A full upload of Alan Kay's 1987 talk, with demos of several Smalltalk-era software systems and ideas about visual, kinesthetic and symbolic reasoning.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address, told through three stories: connecting the dots, love and loss, and death.
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead
Jim Keller gives a UC Berkeley EECS colloquium arguing that Moore's Law is not dead.
Frank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can | Talks at Google
Frank Abagnale, the real subject of Catch Me If You Can, speaks at Google about his life as a con man turned FBI fraud and cybersecurity expert, including advice on fraud, breaches and credit cards.
DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds
A 72-minute Q&A with Linus Torvalds at DebConf 14.
Keynote: Paul Graham, YCombinator
Paul Graham's keynote at PyCon 2012, in which he talks about startup ideas and what kinds of companies are likely to matter in the future.
DOUGLAS ADAMS: Parrots, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams gives a talk at UCSB, recorded shortly before his death, about the odd lives of animals and what they suggest about humanity's future.
Richard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics
A lecture by Richard Feynman on how computers work, using the analogy of a filing clerk that becomes progressively dumber and faster.
Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
Alan Kay's 2015 talk on the power of simplicity, arguing that systems become simpler by building on more sophisticated fundamental building blocks and that big research horizons drove invention at Xerox PARC.
Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016
Chris Urmson's SXSW 2016 talk on Google's self-driving car project, covering 1.3 million self-driven miles and the gap between hype and reality.