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.
Feynman: How to think 1 of 2 FUN TO IMAGINE 11
An excerpt from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman describes how he and a mathematician friend counted in their heads in different ways, one verbally and one visually.
"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)
Gerald Sussman's 2011 Strange Loop keynote argues we still do not know how to compute, comparing biological systems with how we program machines.
SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp
SQLite creator Richard Hipp gives a history of SQLite and explains where it shines as a database at the edge of the network with no DBA.
Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks
Excerpts from Linus Torvalds's DebConf 14 talk on why desktop Linux struggles.
Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins | Noclip Interview
A /noclip interview with Tarn Adams of Bay 12 Games about Dwarf Fortress: where the ASCII simulation came from, how it works, and the plans for its Steam release.
iPhone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins
The full 80-minute Macworld 2007 keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone.
Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto
Barely Sociable presents a case that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is cryptographer Adam Back.
A New Way to look at Networking
Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk on rethinking networking around named content instead of host-to-host conversations.
Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart
A Channel 9 conversation recorded at GOTO 2012 between Anders Hejlsberg (TypeScript) and Lars Bak (Dart).
Steve Jobs Insult Response
A clip from Steve Jobs's 1997 WWDC session, in which he answers a hostile question from an audience member about Apple killing OpenDoc.
Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK
Steve Yegge's Stanford seminar on GROK, Google's internal large-scale, cross-language source code analysis system.
Identity 2.0 Keynote
Dick Hardt's fast-paced OSCON keynote on Identity 2.0 and the move toward user-centric digital identity.
George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132
Lex Fridman interviews George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, in a three-hour conversation.
Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Stephen Wolfram gives a 13-minute tour of the Wolfram Language, a symbolic, functional programming language with a built-in knowledgebase.
Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89
Lex Fridman interviews Stephen Wolfram for about three hours on cellular automata, computation, the Wolfram Physics Project and his career with Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha.
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
A roughly three-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave.
Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018
Erlang co-creator Joe Armstrong's Code BEAM SF 2018 keynote revisits good ideas from the history of computing that were dropped, and asks which should be revived.
Steve Jobs on privacy, Steve Jobs at the D8 Conference (Video)
A short clip of Steve Jobs at the 2010 D8 conference, interviewed by Walt Mossberg, defining privacy as people knowing what they are signing up for, in plain English and repeatedly.
2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It's Time for a New Old Language
Guy Steele's PPoPP 2017 keynote surveying the history of computer science metanotation, including BNF, inference rules, and overline notation.
Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud
Eben Moglen speaks at NYU in 2010 about freedom in the cloud, arguing that centralized services and handing over personal data and server logs erode privacy and freedom.
Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal
Footage from the Macworld Boston 1997 keynote where Steve Jobs announces Apple's deal with Microsoft, with Bill Gates appearing on the big screen.
Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION
Ted Nelson explains the original Xanadu hypertext idea of visible connection, the notion that links between documents should be shown and preserved.
Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103
A BSD Now episode featuring a long interview with Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill on dtrace, ZFS, pkgsrc, containers and more.
Steve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality
A clean-audio clip from Apple's 1997 WWDC where Steve Jobs answers a hostile question from a developer about OpenDoc.