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.
Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure
A Channel 9 Going Deep interview in which Brian Beckman talks with Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, about the language's design.
Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction
Anders Hejlsberg whiteboards how compilers are taught versus how modern ones are actually built.
Steve Jobs on Failure
A two-minute clip from a 1994 interview with Steve Jobs by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association.
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80
Lex Fridman interviews Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum, cryptocurrency and the future of money.
Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234
A long Lex Fridman interview with Stephen Wolfram on complexity, cellular automata, computational irreducibility and the Wolfram Physics Project.
QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote
John Carmack's keynote at QuakeCon 2011, an hour and a half of wide-ranging talk about id Software, Rage, engine open-sourcing, patents and programming practices.
Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital - TWiST #291
Jason Calacanis interviews investor Chris Sacca on This Week in Startups.
[7] Jim Keller, Silicon Wizard 🧙♂️
Ian Cutress interviews chip architect Jim Keller about his time at AMD, Intel and elsewhere, management advice, design approach, Moore's Law and x86 versus Arm.
Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"
A short excerpt from Werner Herzog's film Lo and Behold in which Ted Nelson lays out his ideas about hypertext and interconnection.
Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker
Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker gives the 2018 Donald B.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address, in which he tells three stories from his life about connecting the dots, love and loss, and death.
Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
A 2017 documentary filmed at the Santa Fe Institute in which novelist Cormac McCarthy talks with SFI's David Krakauer.
Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk
Video of the March 2014 Senate Defense Subcommittee hearing on National Security Space Launch programs.
If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...
A 1994 talk by systems thinker Russ Ackoff, who knew W.
Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students
Alan Kay visits Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science in 2007 for an informal conversation with faculty and students.
the sham legacy of Richard Feynman
Physicist Angela Collier's nearly three-hour critique of Richard Feynman's public legacy.
John Carmack Keynote - Quakecon 2013
John Carmack's roughly three-hour QuakeCon 2013 keynote, delivered from a few bullet points.
Wired Interviews Bill Gates 1996
Unreleased 1996 footage of the Wired editors interviewing Bill Gates when he visited their office.
Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
Lex Fridman interviews Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy, SciPy and Anaconda, about scientific Python and its history.
The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and virtual reality pioneer who was dying of cancer, gives his 'Last Lecture' about achieving childhood dreams and living well.
- Startups - David H. Hansson, Partner at 37signals -TWiST #E337
A This Week in Startups episode in which Jason Calacanis interviews David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals.
Steve Jobs Content vs Process
A three-minute clip of Steve Jobs arguing that great products come from people who care about content rather than process.
John Carmack Tech Talk with UMKC-SCE
John Carmack speaks at UMKC's 2017 commencement event about the difficulties of VR, especially end-to-end latency across hardware and software.
Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang
A 2007 Computer History Museum conversation in which Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang interviews TSMC founder Morris Chang.