"The ideological mainstream in our day, " meanwhile, are Modernist Cuisine publishers such as Nathan Myhrvold.
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Nathan Myhrvold, Reaching For The Big Advance (MIT Technology Review Sept 12, 2012).
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In 1999, when Nathan Myhrvold left Microsoft and struck out on his own, he set himself an unusual goal.
The company is a subsidiary of Intellectual Ventures, an invention firm run by Microsoft's former chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold.
Intellectual Ventures, the patent licensing and research firm founded by former Microsoft exec Nathan Myhrvold, will remain an investor in the company.
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Steve Jurvetson, the famed venture capitalist, and Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO headlined a panel discussion on innovation moderated by Greg Brandeau.
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Another startup just out of stealth mode, ThinkFire, in Clinton, New Jersey, was founded by Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's former chief technology officer, and Daniel P.
Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) executive Nathan Myhrvold and celebrities Brad Pitt, Leonard DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage.
Nathan Myhrvold and Jack Horner had branched out from Montana, and at the end of the summer were going to Mongolia, to hunt in the Gobi desert.
Recently, the scientific entrepreneur Nathan Myhrvold, whose company Intellectual Ventures has invested in several geoengineering ideas, said that we could cool the earth by stirring the seas.
Flying back from a CFO conference last month, I read a Malcolm Gladwell story in the New Yorker magazine about Nathan Myhrvold and a band of merry inventors.
In his description of the knowledge worker, Stephen Covey quoted former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold as saying that this type of software developer was 10, 000 times more productive than other developers.
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Nathan Myhrvold, the polymath ex-Microsoft executive, went hunting for T. rex remains with a bankroll and a passion (see ForbesLife, March 2011), adding nine specimens to the world's previous total of 18.
The answer lies inside the mop-topped head of polymath Nathan Myhrvold, the chief executive of Intellectual Ventures, who gained fame and wealth in his 14 years at Microsoft, retiring as chief technology officer in 2000.
It's not too far a stretch to imagine some Cro-Magnon connoisseur hoarding the same dinosaur bones Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold keeps today in his giant warehouse in Redmond, Wash. (see " The Intense Dilettante").
Former Microsoft CTO and Intellectual Ventures co-founder Nathan Myhrvold, who also spoke at EmTech about energy, said there should be a massive increase in research and development to address the daunting challenges in energy.
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If Ballmer is Gates' social goad, his intellectual one is Nathan Myhrvold (pronounced Meer-voll), 37, who likes to joke that he's got more degrees than a thermometer, including a doctorate in physics from Princeton.
But the most compelling keynote was the one at 9:30 pm in the hotel bar by Paul Pablos Holman, a real-life hacker from the envelope-pushing, avant-guarde Intellectual Ventures founded by Nathan Myhrvold.
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It helped as well that Casey Tegreene had a law degree, Lowell Wood had spent his career dreaming up weapons for the government, Nathan Myhrvold was a ball of fire, Edward Jung had walked across Texas.
Nathan Myhrvold , former chief technology officer of Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people), has lately taken to comparing the current state of biotech to the revolution in computing he joined more than a decade and a half ago.
But what concerns your correspondent about this chapter is that it spends most of its time describing an apparently cheap, simple solution to climate change: a clever idea fermented in a small set of laboratories at Intellectual Ventures, a firm run by Nathan Myhrvold, who was once Microsoft's chief technology officer.
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