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'''Nathan Paul Myhrvold''' (born August 3, 1959), formerly [[Chief Technology Officer]] at [[Microsoft]], is co-founder of [[Intellectual Ventures]] and the principal author of ''[[Modernist Cuisine]]''. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17<ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm Search for Myhrvold's Microsoft patents] - use search argument in Query box: IN/Myhrvold and AN/Microsoft</ref> patents at Microsoft and has since co-sponsored applications for over 500 other patents for which his corporation is funding the patent monetization effort.<ref>[http://appft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html Search for Myhrvold's pending patent applications] - use search argument in Query box: IN/Myhrvold-Nathan-P</ref><ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm Search for Myhrvold's non-Microsoft patents] - use search argument in Query box: IN/Myhrvold-Nathan-P andnot AN/Microsoft</ref>
'''Nathan Paul Myhrvold''' (born August 3, 1959), formerly [[Chief Technology Officer]] at, is co-founder of [[Intellectual Ventures]] and the principal author of ''[[Modernist Cuisine]]'' and its successor books. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17<ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm Search for Myhrvold's Microsoft patents] - use search argument in Query box: APT/1 and IN/Myhrvold-Nathan$ and AN/Microsoft and APD/1/1/1985->1/1/2000</ref> U.S. patents at Microsoft and is co-inventor on over 750 other U.S. patents issued to his corporation and its affiliates.<ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm Search for Myhrvold's non-Microsoft issued U.S. patents] - use search argument in Query box: APT/1 and IN/Myhrvold-Nathan$ andnot AN/Microsoft</ref>


== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
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=== Early career ===
=== Early career ===
Myhrvold left Cambridge to co-found a computer startup in [[Oakland, California]]. The company, Dynamical Systems Research Inc., sought to produce Mondrian, a clone of [[IBM]]'s [[TopView]] [[Computer multitasking|multitasking]] environment for DOS. Microsoft purchased DSR in 1986 for $1.5M.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0968910807|title=A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology |author=Roy A. Allan}}</ref>
Myhrvold left Cambridge to co-found a computer startup in [[Oakland, California]]. The company, Dynamical Systems Research Inc., sought to produce Mondrian, a clone of [[IBM]]'s [[TopView]] [[Computer multitasking|multitasking]] environment for DOS. Microsoft purchased DSR in 1986 for $1.5M.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0968910807|title=A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology |author=Roy A. Allan}}</ref>
Myhrvold worked at Microsoft for 13 years. At Microsoft he founded [[Microsoft Research]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/Jun99/MyhrvoldPR.mspx|title=Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold Takes Leave of Absence |date=June 1, 1999 |accessdate=October 14, 2006 |work=PressPass |publisher=Microsoft }}</ref>
Myhrvold worked at [[Microsoft]] for 13 years in a variety of executive positions, culminating in his appointment as the company's first [[Chief Technology Officer]] in 1996.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.microsoft.com/1996/10/29/microsoft-realigns-product-groups-creates-chief-technology-officer-enhances-focus-on-internet-interactive-media-and-future-technologies/|title=Microsoft Realigns Product Groups, Creates Chief Technology Officer; Enhances Focus on Internet, Interactive Media and Future Technologies|last=|first=|date=1996-10-29|work=Microsoft Press Release|access-date=2018-01-06|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en-US}}</ref> At Microsoft he founded [[Microsoft Research]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold Takes Leave of Absence|date=June 1, 1999|publisher=Microsoft|url=https://news.microsoft.com/1999/06/01/microsoft-chief-technology-officer-nathan-myhrvold-takes-leave-of-absence/|accessdate=Janiaru 5, 2018|work=Press Release}}</ref>


=== Intellectual ventures ===
=== Intellectual Ventures ===
After Microsoft, in 2000 Myhrvold co-founded [[Intellectual Ventures]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://webreprints.djreprints.com/2032070014238.pdf |format=PDF|title=Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures |accessdate=September 15, 2008}} Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2008</ref> a patent portfolio developer and broker in the areas of technology and energy, which has acquired over 30,000 patents.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article7127608.ece |title=Green Pioneers: Godfather of nutty inventions |accessdate=June 2, 2010 | location=London | work=[[The Times]]| first=Mark| last=Harris| date=May 16, 2010}} Mark Harris, The Sunday Times, May 16, 2010</ref> Myhrvold allegedly owns approximately 40% of Intellectual Ventures Management Company, generating $20M-$40M annually in "management fees" for Myhrvold. Intellectual Ventures exploits the market for inventions and patents, buying patents from inventors under the assumption the patents will be more valuable in the future. IV also files patents through the work of a team of on-site inventors and thousands of other inventors within their network who respond to IV-created "Requests for Invention", although nothing from these labs has reached commercial use. It also buys patents from companies and inventors. In certain, limited, circumstances, IV reduces these inventions to practice. However, in most cases, IV's "inventions" are limited to the descriptions cited in their patent applications. IV then licenses the patents in patent-portfolios (bundles). IV purports to be assisting in the creation of a market for patent-backed securities.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://hbr.org/2010/03/the-big-idea-funding-eureka/ar/1 |title=The Big Idea: Funding Eureka! |accessdate=October 21, 2012 | location=Cambridge | work=[[Harvard Business Review]]| first=Nathan| last=Myhrvold| date=March 16, 2010}} Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures, March 2010</ref>
After Microsoft, in 2000 Myhrvold co-founded [[Intellectual Ventures]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://webreprints.djreprints.com/2032070014238.pdf |format=PDF|title=Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures |accessdate=September 15, 2008}} Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2008</ref> a patent portfolio developer and broker in the areas of technology and energy, which has acquired over 30,000 patents.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article7127608.ece |title=Green Pioneers: Godfather of nutty inventions |accessdate=June 2, 2010 | location=London | work=[[The Times]]| first=Mark| last=Harris| date=May 16, 2010}} Mark Harris, The Sunday Times, May 16, 2010</ref> Intellectual Ventures exploits the market for inventions and patents, buying patents from companies and inventors under the assumption the patents will be more valuable in the future. IV also files patents through the work of a team of on-site inventors. Startup companies spun out of IV, including [[Kymeta]], [https://echodyne.com Echodyne], and [[TerraPower]], have developed commercial products from IV's inventions. Through its Global Good unit, which Myhrvold founded in collaboration with Bill Gates, IV has also invented and produced commercial products, such as improved vaccine coolers and milking cans, aimed at low-income markets in Africa and Asia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.devex.com/news/with-help-from-bill-gates-this-lab-is-reinventing-its-approach-to-invention-89204|title=With help from Bill Gates, this lab is reinventing its approach to invention|last=Cheney|first=Catherine|date=2016-11-22|work=Devex|access-date=2018-01-06|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en-US}}</ref> However, in most cases, IV's inventions are limited to the descriptions provided in their patents, which are bundled into portfolios for licensing.


The business practices of Intellectual Ventures have caused controversy and the company has been widely criticized for being a [[patent troll]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack|title=This American Life: When Patents Attack |accessdate=July 25, 2011 | date=July 24, 2011}} Ira Glass, [[NPR]], July 24, 2011</ref> Myhrvold has publicly defended his firm's practices, arguing that they foster innovation by serving as a marketplace for intellectual property. He noted in 2012 that many of the largest companies in [[Silicon Valley]], including [[Microsoft]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], and [[Facebook]], have also bought large patent portfolios to 'further their strategic game'.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/06/19/nathan-myhrvolds-patent-investing-returns-are-still-lousy/|title=Nathan Myhrvold's Patent Investing Returns Are Still Lousy|work=[[Forbes]]|date=June 19, 2012}}</ref>
Myhrvold has described his goal for Intellectual Ventures as helping to create a market for patent-backed securities.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://hbr.org/2010/03/the-big-idea-funding-eureka/ar/1 |title=The Big Idea: Funding Eureka! |accessdate=October 21, 2012 | location=Cambridge | work=[[Harvard Business Review]]| first=Nathan| last=Myhrvold| date=March 16, 2010}} Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures, March 2010</ref> The company's business practices have caused controversy, however, with some deprecating the firm as a [[patent troll]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack|title=This American Life: When Patents Attack |accessdate=July 25, 2011 | date=July 24, 2011}} Ira Glass, [[NPR]], July 24, 2011</ref> Myhrvold has publicly defended his firm's practices, arguing that they foster innovation by serving as a marketplace for intellectual property. He has noted that many of the largest companies in [[Silicon Valley]], including [[Google]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], and [[Facebook]], have also bought large patent portfolios and used litigation to protect them, but has criticized them as focusing too much on creating "tools or toys for rich people."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.1843magazine.com/content/features/myth-buster|title=Nathan Myhrvold, myth buster|last=Renton|first=Alex|date=2015-01-26|work=1843 (The Economist)|access-date=2018-01-06|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>


=== Nuclear power ===
=== Nuclear power ===
Myhrvold is vice chairman of [[TerraPower]], a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures that is developing a new kind of [[nuclear reactor]], known as a [[Traveling wave reactor|traveling-wave reactor]], that is designed to be safer, cheaper, and cleaner than current nuclear power plants. In 2017, the company launched a joint venture with the [[China National Nuclear Corporation]] to build and operate a prototype reactor of this kind in Hebei province.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/nuclear-scientists-head-to-china-to-test-experimental-reactors|title=China Becoming Testing Ground for New Breed of Nuclear Reactors|last=Stapczynski|first=Stephen|date=2017-09-21|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2018-01-06|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}}</ref>
[[TerraPower]], a subsidiary of Intellectual Ventures, aims to develop a [[nuclear reactor]] that is "safe and cheap" as part of Bill Gates' strategy to reach the goal of zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I&feature=relmfu Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!</ref> Gates unveiled this plan at the [[TED (conference)|TED]] 2010. The plant will run on natural or depleted [[uranium]] with the potential for 30 years without refuelling.


=== Science ===
=== Science ===
Myhrvold is a prize-winning nature and wildlife photographer and a member of the USA Science and engineering Festival's Advisory Board. He has also been involved with paleontological research on expeditions with the [[Museum of the Rockies]]. His work has appeared in scientific journals including ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Myhrvold | first1 = N. | authorlink = Nathan Myhrvold| title = ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Supporting Science | doi = 10.1126/science.282.5389.621 | journal = Science | volume = 282 | issue = 5389 | pages = 621–622 | year = 1998 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal
In addition to his business activities, Myhrvold is working scientist who has published original, peer-reviewed research in the fields of paleobiology,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Myhrvold|first=Nathan P.|date=2013-12-16|title=Revisiting the Estimation of Dinosaur Growth Rates|url=http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081917|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=8|issue=12|pages=e81917|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0081917|issn=1932-6203}}</ref> climate science,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Caldeira|first=K.|last2=Myhrvold|first2=N. P.|date=2013|title=Projections of the pace of warming following an abrupt increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration|url=http://stacks.iop.org/1748-9326/8/i=3/a=034039|journal=Environmental Research Letters|language=en|volume=8|issue=3|pages=034039|doi=10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034039|issn=1748-9326}}</ref> and astronomy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Myhrvold|first=Nathan|title=Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight|url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.024|journal=Icarus|volume=303|pages=91–113|doi=10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.024}}</ref> A prize-winning nature and wildlife photographer, he has also been involved with paleontological research on expeditions with the [[Museum of the Rockies]]. His work has appeared in scientific journals including ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Myhrvold | first1 = N. | authorlink = Nathan Myhrvold| title = ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Supporting Science | doi = 10.1126/science.282.5389.621 | journal = Science | volume = 282 | issue = 5389 | pages = 621–622 | year = 1998 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal
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}}</ref> ''[[National Geographic Traveler]]'', and ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''. He and [[Peter Rinearson]] helped [[Bill Gates]] write ''[[The Road Ahead (Bill Gates book)|The Road Ahead]]'', a book about the future that reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1995 and 1996. Myhrvold has contributed $1 million to the nonprofit [[SETI]] Institute in Mountain View, CA, for the development of the [[Allen Telescope Array]], which was envisioned to be the most powerful instrument for SETI.<ref>{{cite web|title=Technologists Paul G. Allen and Nathan P. Myhrvold announce $12.5 million in support for revolutionary new telescope|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=2320|publisher=spaceref.com|date=August 1, 2000|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref>
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After the [[Science Museum (London)|Science Museum]] in London successfully built the computing section of [[Charles Babbage]]'s [[Difference Engine]] #2 in 1991, Myhrvold funded the construction of the output section, which performs both [[printing]] and [[Stereotype (printing)|stereotyping]] of calculated results. He also commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine #2 for himself, which was on display at the [[Computer History Museum]] in [[Mountain View, California]], from May 10, 2008 to January 31, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.engadget.com/2008/04/21/computer-history-museum-unboxes-a-babbage-difference-engine/ |title=Computer History Museum unboxes a Babbage difference engine |accessdate=April 28, 2008}}</ref><ref name="chm">{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/press/babbage-engine-extension.html |title=The Computer History Museum Extends Its Exhibition of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 |work=press release |publisher=[[Computer History Museum]] |date=March 31, 2009 |accessdate=November 6, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/|title=The Babbage Engine exhibit at Computer History Museum|accessdate=April 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/01/29/computer-museum-bids-farewell-to-babbage-engine Difference Engine Leaves Computer History Museum], Mark Moack, Mountain View Voice, January 28, 2016</ref>
After the [[Science Museum (London)|Science Museum]] in London successfully built the computing section of [[Charles Babbage]]'s [[Difference Engine]] #2 in 1991, Myhrvold funded the construction of the output section, which performs both [[printing]] and [[Stereotype (printing)|stereotyping]] of calculated results. He also commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine #2 for himself, which was on display at the [[Computer History Museum]] in [[Mountain View, California]], from May 10, 2008 to January 31, 2016 and currently resides in the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.engadget.com/2008/04/21/computer-history-museum-unboxes-a-babbage-difference-engine/ |title=Computer History Museum unboxes a Babbage difference engine |accessdate=April 28, 2008}}</ref><ref name="chm">{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/press/babbage-engine-extension.html |title=The Computer History Museum Extends Its Exhibition of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 |work=press release |publisher=[[Computer History Museum]] |date=March 31, 2009 |accessdate=November 6, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/|title=The Babbage Engine exhibit at Computer History Museum|accessdate=April 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/01/29/computer-museum-bids-farewell-to-babbage-engine Difference Engine Leaves Computer History Museum], Mark Moack, Mountain View Voice, January 28, 2016</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2016/inside-intellectual-ventures-lab/|title=Inside the invention factory: Get a peek at Intellectual Ventures’ lab|last=Boyle|first=Alan|date=2016-09-11|work=GeekWire|access-date=2018-01-06|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en-US}}</ref>


=== Cooking ===
=== Cooking ===
In addition to his business and scientific interests, he is a chef, earning his culinary diploma from [[École de Cuisine La Varenne]] in France.<ref>http://modernistcuisine.com/about-modernist-cuisine/about-the-author/</ref> Myhrvold's early culinary training was as an observer and unpaid apprentice at ''Rover's'', one of [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle's]] leading restaurants, with Chef [[Thierry Rautureau]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edge.org/digerati/myhrvold/ |title=Edge profile |accessdate=May 10, 2007}}</ref> Myhrvold is the principal author of a culinary text entitled ''[[Modernist Cuisine]],'' released in March 2011, on the application of scientific research principles and new techniques and technology to cooking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.modernistcuisine.com |title=Modernist Cuisine |accessdate=September 15, 2010}}</ref> He has also won first place at the Memphis barbecue championship and appeared as a guest judge on ''[[Top Chef]]''.
While working as chief technology officer at Microsoft, Myhrvold took leave to earn his culinary diploma from [[École de Cuisine La Varenne]] in France.<ref name=":0" /> Myhrvold's early culinary training was as an observer and unpaid apprentice at ''Rover's'', one of [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle's]] leading restaurants, with Chef [[Thierry Rautureau]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edge.org/digerati/myhrvold/ |title=Edge profile |accessdate=May 10, 2007}}</ref> Myhrvold is the principal author of a culinary text entitled ''[[Modernist Cuisine|Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking]],'' released in March 2011, on the application of scientific research principles and new techniques and technology to cooking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.modernistcuisine.com |title=Modernist Cuisine |accessdate=September 15, 2010}}</ref> That book, which earned a [[James Beard Foundation Award]] for "cookbook of the year" in 2012, was followed by the books ''Modernist Cuisine at Home'', ''The Photography of Modernist Cuisine'', and ''Modernist Bread: The Art and Science'', all self-published by Myhrvold and with him as lead author. Myhrvold was part of a team that won first place at the world barbecue championships in Memphis.<ref name=":0" /> He has appeared as a guest judge on ''[[Top Chef]]''.


=== Advocacy ===
=== Advocacy ===
On December 20, 2009, Myhrvold appeared on [[CNN]]'s [[Fareed Zakaria GPS]] and discussed his patented idea to eliminate [[global warming]]/[[climate change]] using [[climate engineering|geoengineering]]. It involves using hoses suspended from [[helium]] balloons {{convert|25|km|mi|sp=us}} above the [[Earth]]. The hoses would be placed near the [[North Pole]] and the [[South Pole]] and emit [[sulfur dioxide]], which is known to scatter light. Myhrvold estimated that such a configuration could "easily dim the sun by one percent, and even do it in a way that wouldn't be visible."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html |title=Solving Global Warming with Nathan Myhrvold | work=[[CNN]]}}</ref>
In interviews with CNN, [[SuperFreakonomics|''SuperFreakonomics'']] author Stephen Dubner, and ''Scientific American'', Myhrvold has discussed ways to reverse some of the effects of [[global warming]]/[[climate change]] by using [[climate engineering|geoengineering]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/albedo-yachts-and-marine-clouds/|title="Albedo Yachts" and Marine Clouds: A Cure for Climate Change?|last=Mims|first=Christopher|work=Scientific American|access-date=2018-01-06|language=en}}</ref> Myhrvold and other inventors working with Intellectual Ventures have proposed several approaches, including one that would use hoses, suspended from [[helium]] balloons {{convert|25|km|mi|sp=us}} above the [[Earth]] at high latitudes, to emit [[sulfur dioxide]], which is known to scatter light.<ref>{{Citation|last=IntellectualVentures|title=The Stratoshield "Hose to the Sky" Could Reverse Global Warming|date=2009-10-26|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrimZzgqwdo&feature=youtu.be|accessdate=2018-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html |title=Solving Global Warming with Nathan Myhrvold | work=[[CNN]]}}</ref> Another approach would stimulate the formation and brightening of marine clouds to reflect more sunlight back into space.<ref name=":2" />

An evaluation of the potential negative impact of releasing large amounts of [[sulfur dioxide]] (SO<sub>2</sub>) into the atmosphere, which, when combined with water moisture ( H<sub>2</sub>O ) can produce [[sulfuric acid]] ( H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> ) is needed. Significant environmental efforts aimed at scrubbing SO<sub>2</sub> from automobile exhausts and coal-burning power plants over since the 1970s have been largely successful in eliminating [[acid rain]] as an environmental pollutant.


===Controversy===
===Controversy===
In the popular press, Myhrvold and [[Intellectual Ventures]] have been repeatedly accused of acting as [[patent trolls]] and stifling innovation by buying patents and then forcing inventors to license their ideas by means of litigation. [[Walt Mossberg]] interviewed Myhrvold about Intellectual Ventures' role as a "patent troll" during the 10th annual [[All Things Digital]] conference.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/video/d10-video-nathan-myhrvold-full-session/0F1613F6-E0C5-4790-8F1E-38A8F8CCD721.html |title=Nathan Myhrvold Full Session}}</ref> [[This American Life]]'s Laura Sydell ran an investigative story about patent trolling and Intellectual Ventures' role in that business.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack/ |title=When Patents Attack!}}</ref>
In the popular press, Myhrvold and [[Intellectual Ventures]] have been repeatedly accused of acting as [[patent trolls]] and stifling innovation by buying patents and then forcing inventors to license their ideas by means of litigation. [[Walt Mossberg]] interviewed Myhrvold about Intellectual Ventures' role as a "patent troll" during the 10th annual [[All Things Digital]] conference.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/video/d10-video-nathan-myhrvold-full-session/0F1613F6-E0C5-4790-8F1E-38A8F8CCD721.html |title=Nathan Myhrvold Full Session}}</ref> [[This American Life]]'s Laura Sydell ran an investigative story about patent trolling and Intellectual Ventures' role in that business.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack/ |title=When Patents Attack!}}</ref>


According to [[CNET]], Intellectual Ventues controls nearly 40,000 intellectual assets (patents and patents pending) that it has used to extract approximately $2 billion (as of 2011) in the form of license fees. Companies ranging from SAP to Samsung are currently licensing their patents.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnet.com/news/inside-intellectual-ventures-the-most-hated-company-in-tech/ |title=Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech}}</ref>
According to [[The New York Times]], Intellectual Ventures at one point controlled nearly 70,000 intellectual assets (patents and patents pending) that it has used to generate approximately $3 billion in revenues, primarily in the form of license fees from large corporations. The company responds that it has returned more than $500 million to individual inventors and most of the remaining revenues to its investors.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/business/ftc-turns-a-lens-on-abusers-of-the-patent-system.html|title=Inventive, at Least in Court|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|date=2013-07-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-06|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


In research presented at scientific conferences and published in the astronomy journal ''[[Icarus (journal)|Icarus]]'', Myhrvold has been a vocal critic of procedures and results about asteroid diameters published by the [[NEOWISE]] team.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Myhrvold, Nathan P. "An Empirical Examination of WISE/NEOWISE Asteroid Analyses and Results". Poster at the 49th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, October 2017. https://dps2017-aas.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=1D-29-3E-5C-5D-47-88-F8-6F-EA-4C-F1-63-B2-D1-89 Retrieved January 6, 2018.</ref><ref>Myhrvold, Nathan P. "An Empirical Examination of the NEOWISE Results and Data Analysis". Abstract of talk presented at the 229th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, January 5, 2017.https://aas.org/files/aas229-abstracts-pdf.pdf<nowiki/>Retrieved January 6, 2018.</ref> A preprint of his work on the subject<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Myhrvold|first=Nathan|date=2016-05-20|title=Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight with an application to WISE/NEOWISE observational data|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06490|journal=arXiv:1605.06490 [astro-ph]}}</ref> received wide press coverage<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/science/asteroids-nathan-myhrvold-nasa.html|title=How Big Are Those Killer Asteroids? A Critic Says NASA Doesn’t Know.|last=Chang|first=Kenneth|date=2016-05-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-06|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/billionaire-technologist-accuses-nasa-asteroid-mission-bad-statistics|title=Billionaire technologist accuses NASA asteroid mission of bad statistics|last=Hand|first=Eric|date=2016-05-23|work=Science {{!}} AAAS|access-date=2018-01-06|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-asteroid-hunting-astronomers-nathan-myhrvold-says-the-sky-is-falling1/|title=For Asteroid-Hunting Astronomers, Nathan Myhrvold Says the Sky Is Falling|last=Billings|first=Lee|work=Scientific American|access-date=2018-01-06|language=en}}</ref> following a public statement by NASA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6518|title=NASA Response to Recent Paper on NEOWISE Asteroid Size Results|website=NASA/JPL|access-date=2018-01-06}}</ref>
Myhrvold is critical of procedures and results about asteroid diameters published by the [[NEOWISE]] team. His work on the subject,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06490|title=Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight with an application to WISE/NEOWISE observational data|last1=Myhrvold|first1=Nathan|arxiv=1605.06490}}</ref> yet to be peer reviewed, is heavily criticized by [[Phil Plait]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/05/27/nathan_myhrvold_claims_nasa_scientists_asteroid_calculations_are_all_wrong.html |title=A Physics Outsider Says NASA Asteroid Scientists Are All Wrong. Is He Right? (Spoiler: No) |last1=Plait |first1=Phil |date=May 27, 2016 |website=slate.com |publisher=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=August 10, 2016 |quote=}}</ref>


=== Affiliations and awards ===
=== Affiliations and awards ===
Myhrvold received the [[James Beard Foundation Award]] for cookbook of the year in 2012<ref>[http://jamesbeard.org/sites/default/files/attachments/050712-JBF-WINNERS%281%29.pdf "2012 James Beard Foundation Book Awards"] (PDF). The James Beard Foundation. Retrieved January 6, 2018.</ref> and an honorary degree from [[The Culinary Institute of America]] in 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://modernistcuisine.com/2011/03/dr-nathan-myhrvold-receives-honorary-degree-from-cia/|title=Dr. Nathan Myhrvold Receives Honorary Degree from CIA|last=|first=|date=|website=modernistcuisine.com|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-01-06}}</ref> for his book ''[[Modernist Cuisine|Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking]]''.
Myhrvold is a member of the [[USA Science and Engineering Festival]]'s Advisory Board.<ref>[http://www.usasciencefestival.org/about/advisors Advisors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421005310/http://www.usasciencefestival.org/about/advisors/ |date=April 21, 2010 }}. USA Science and Engineering Festival</ref>
In 2010, he was named by ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' magazine to its list of top 100 global thinkers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,37 |title=Foreign Policy's Second Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers |publisher=Foreign Policy |date= |accessdate=March 23, 2011}}</ref>
In 2010, he was named by ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' magazine to its list of top 100 global thinkers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,37 |title=Foreign Policy's Second Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers |publisher=Foreign Policy |date= |accessdate=March 23, 2011}}</ref>
He was selected as the keynote speaker for the UCLA College commencement ceremonies on Friday, June 12, 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHEHaXF-zA|title=2015 UCLA College Commencement Ceremony I 2pm|website=YouTube|access-date=2018-01-06}}</ref> In 2013, Myhrvold was a judge for the inaugural [[Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering]]. Princeton University awarded him the James Madison Medal in 2005.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2005/02/26/myhrvold-reflects-magic-invention|title=Myhrvold reflects on 'Magic of Invention'|work=Princeton University|access-date=2018-01-06|language=en}}</ref>
He was selected as the keynote speaker for the UCLA College commencement ceremonies on Friday, June 12, 2015.

In 2013, Myhrvold was a judge for the inaugural [[Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering]].


== References ==
== References ==
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* [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_zap_malaria.html TED talk (embedded video): Nathan Myhrvold: Could this Laser Zap Malaria?] [[TED (conference)|TED]] lecture with demonstration Feb 2010
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_zap_malaria.html TED talk (embedded video): Nathan Myhrvold: Could this Laser Zap Malaria?] [[TED (conference)|TED]] lecture with demonstration Feb 2010
*{{cite news|title=Inside Nathan Myhrvold's Mysterious New Idea Machine|url=http://edboyden.org/06.06.intven.comment.businessweek.pdf|accessdate=June 24, 2011|newspaper=[[BusinessWeek]]|date=July 3, 2006}}
*{{cite news|title=Inside Nathan Myhrvold's Mysterious New Idea Machine|url=http://edboyden.org/06.06.intven.comment.businessweek.pdf|accessdate=June 24, 2011|newspaper=[[BusinessWeek]]|date=July 3, 2006}}
*[https://www.1843magazine.com/content/features/myth-buster "Nathan Myhrvold, Myth Buster". ''1843 (The Economist)''. January/February 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2018.]


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Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold, March 8, 2007
Born (1959-08-03) August 3, 1959 (age 64)
Seattle, Washington
Alma materUCLA (B.S., M.S.)
Princeton University (M.S., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
InstitutionsIntellectual Ventures, University of Cambridge, Microsoft Research
Websitewww.nathanmyhrvold.com

Nathan Paul Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959), formerly Chief Technology Officer at, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of Modernist Cuisine and its successor books. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17[1] U.S. patents at Microsoft and is co-inventor on over 750 other U.S. patents issued to his corporation and its affiliates.[2]

Early life and education

Myhrvold was born in Seattle, Washington. He attended Mirman School,[3] and Santa Monica High School, graduating in 1974,[4] and began college at age 14.[5] He studied mathematics, geophysics, and space physics at UCLA (BSc, Masters). He was awarded a Hertz Foundation Fellowship for graduate study and studied at Princeton University, where he earned a master's degree in mathematical economics and completed a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics.[6] He also attended Santa Monica College. For one year, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking (along with a number of other students).

Career

Early career

Myhrvold left Cambridge to co-found a computer startup in Oakland, California. The company, Dynamical Systems Research Inc., sought to produce Mondrian, a clone of IBM's TopView multitasking environment for DOS. Microsoft purchased DSR in 1986 for $1.5M.[7] Myhrvold worked at Microsoft for 13 years in a variety of executive positions, culminating in his appointment as the company's first Chief Technology Officer in 1996.[8] At Microsoft he founded Microsoft Research in 1991.[9]

Intellectual Ventures

After Microsoft, in 2000 Myhrvold co-founded Intellectual Ventures,[10] a patent portfolio developer and broker in the areas of technology and energy, which has acquired over 30,000 patents.[11] Intellectual Ventures exploits the market for inventions and patents, buying patents from companies and inventors under the assumption the patents will be more valuable in the future. IV also files patents through the work of a team of on-site inventors. Startup companies spun out of IV, including Kymeta, Echodyne, and TerraPower, have developed commercial products from IV's inventions. Through its Global Good unit, which Myhrvold founded in collaboration with Bill Gates, IV has also invented and produced commercial products, such as improved vaccine coolers and milking cans, aimed at low-income markets in Africa and Asia.[12] However, in most cases, IV's inventions are limited to the descriptions provided in their patents, which are bundled into portfolios for licensing.

Myhrvold has described his goal for Intellectual Ventures as helping to create a market for patent-backed securities.[13] The company's business practices have caused controversy, however, with some deprecating the firm as a patent troll.[14] Myhrvold has publicly defended his firm's practices, arguing that they foster innovation by serving as a marketplace for intellectual property. He has noted that many of the largest companies in Silicon Valley, including Google, Apple, and Facebook, have also bought large patent portfolios and used litigation to protect them, but has criticized them as focusing too much on creating "tools or toys for rich people."[15]

Nuclear power

Myhrvold is vice chairman of TerraPower, a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures that is developing a new kind of nuclear reactor, known as a traveling-wave reactor, that is designed to be safer, cheaper, and cleaner than current nuclear power plants. In 2017, the company launched a joint venture with the China National Nuclear Corporation to build and operate a prototype reactor of this kind in Hebei province.[16]

Science

In addition to his business activities, Myhrvold is working scientist who has published original, peer-reviewed research in the fields of paleobiology,[17] climate science,[18] and astronomy.[19] A prize-winning nature and wildlife photographer, he has also been involved with paleontological research on expeditions with the Museum of the Rockies. His work has appeared in scientific journals including Science,[20] Nature,[21] Paleobiology[22] (With Philip J. Currie), PLOS ONE,[23] and the Physical Review,[24] as well as Fortune, Time, Scientific American,[25][26] National Geographic Traveler, and Slate. He and Peter Rinearson helped Bill Gates write The Road Ahead, a book about the future that reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in 1995 and 1996. Myhrvold has contributed $1 million to the nonprofit SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA, for the development of the Allen Telescope Array, which was envisioned to be the most powerful instrument for SETI.[27]

After the Science Museum in London successfully built the computing section of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine #2 in 1991, Myhrvold funded the construction of the output section, which performs both printing and stereotyping of calculated results. He also commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine #2 for himself, which was on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, from May 10, 2008 to January 31, 2016 and currently resides in the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory.[28][29][30][31][32]

Cooking

While working as chief technology officer at Microsoft, Myhrvold took leave to earn his culinary diploma from École de Cuisine La Varenne in France.[15] Myhrvold's early culinary training was as an observer and unpaid apprentice at Rover's, one of Seattle's leading restaurants, with Chef Thierry Rautureau.[33] Myhrvold is the principal author of a culinary text entitled Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, released in March 2011, on the application of scientific research principles and new techniques and technology to cooking.[34] That book, which earned a James Beard Foundation Award for "cookbook of the year" in 2012, was followed by the books Modernist Cuisine at Home, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine, and Modernist Bread: The Art and Science, all self-published by Myhrvold and with him as lead author. Myhrvold was part of a team that won first place at the world barbecue championships in Memphis.[15] He has appeared as a guest judge on Top Chef.

Advocacy

In interviews with CNN, SuperFreakonomics author Stephen Dubner, and Scientific American, Myhrvold has discussed ways to reverse some of the effects of global warming/climate change by using geoengineering.[35] Myhrvold and other inventors working with Intellectual Ventures have proposed several approaches, including one that would use hoses, suspended from helium balloons 25 kilometers (16 mi) above the Earth at high latitudes, to emit sulfur dioxide, which is known to scatter light.[36][37] Another approach would stimulate the formation and brightening of marine clouds to reflect more sunlight back into space.[35]

Controversy

In the popular press, Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures have been repeatedly accused of acting as patent trolls and stifling innovation by buying patents and then forcing inventors to license their ideas by means of litigation. Walt Mossberg interviewed Myhrvold about Intellectual Ventures' role as a "patent troll" during the 10th annual All Things Digital conference.[38] This American Life's Laura Sydell ran an investigative story about patent trolling and Intellectual Ventures' role in that business.[39]

According to The New York Times, Intellectual Ventures at one point controlled nearly 70,000 intellectual assets (patents and patents pending) that it has used to generate approximately $3 billion in revenues, primarily in the form of license fees from large corporations. The company responds that it has returned more than $500 million to individual inventors and most of the remaining revenues to its investors.[40]

In research presented at scientific conferences and published in the astronomy journal Icarus, Myhrvold has been a vocal critic of procedures and results about asteroid diameters published by the NEOWISE team.[19][41][42] A preprint of his work on the subject[43] received wide press coverage[44][45][46] following a public statement by NASA.[47]

Affiliations and awards

Myhrvold received the James Beard Foundation Award for cookbook of the year in 2012[48] and an honorary degree from The Culinary Institute of America in 2013[49] for his book Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. In 2010, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top 100 global thinkers.[50] He was selected as the keynote speaker for the UCLA College commencement ceremonies on Friday, June 12, 2015.[51] In 2013, Myhrvold was a judge for the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Princeton University awarded him the James Madison Medal in 2005.[52]

References

  1. ^ Search for Myhrvold's Microsoft patents - use search argument in Query box: APT/1 and IN/Myhrvold-Nathan$ and AN/Microsoft and APD/1/1/1985->1/1/2000
  2. ^ Search for Myhrvold's non-Microsoft issued U.S. patents - use search argument in Query box: APT/1 and IN/Myhrvold-Nathan$ andnot AN/Microsoft
  3. ^ "Where Bright Minds Can Shine", Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2000
  4. ^ "Honored Vikings". Hall of Fame - Samohi Alumni Association.
  5. ^ Oversight Testimony “Patent Quality and Improvement” before the Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, House Committee on the Judiciary, United States Congress, April 28, 2005
  6. ^ Corcoran, E. (1993) Profile: Nathan P. Myhrvold – The Physicist as a Young Businessman, Scientific American 268(2), 34-35.
  7. ^ Roy A. Allan. A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology.
  8. ^ "Microsoft Realigns Product Groups, Creates Chief Technology Officer; Enhances Focus on Internet, Interactive Media and Future Technologies". Microsoft Press Release. October 29, 1996. Retrieved January 6, 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  9. ^ "Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold Takes Leave of Absence". Press Release (Press release). Microsoft. June 1, 1999. Retrieved Janiaru 5, 2018. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ "Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures" (PDF). Retrieved September 15, 2008. Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2008
  11. ^ Harris, Mark (May 16, 2010). "Green Pioneers: Godfather of nutty inventions". The Times. London. Retrieved June 2, 2010. Mark Harris, The Sunday Times, May 16, 2010
  12. ^ Cheney, Catherine (November 22, 2016). "With help from Bill Gates, this lab is reinventing its approach to invention". Devex. Retrieved January 6, 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  13. ^ Myhrvold, Nathan (March 16, 2010). "The Big Idea: Funding Eureka!". Harvard Business Review. Cambridge. Retrieved October 21, 2012. Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures, March 2010
  14. ^ "This American Life: When Patents Attack". July 24, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011. Ira Glass, NPR, July 24, 2011
  15. ^ a b c Renton, Alex (January 26, 2015). "Nathan Myhrvold, myth buster". 1843 (The Economist). Retrieved January 6, 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  16. ^ Stapczynski, Stephen (September 21, 2017). "China Becoming Testing Ground for New Breed of Nuclear Reactors". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved January 6, 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ Myhrvold, Nathan P. (December 16, 2013). "Revisiting the Estimation of Dinosaur Growth Rates". PLOS ONE. 8 (12): e81917. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081917. ISSN 1932-6203.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  18. ^ Caldeira, K.; Myhrvold, N. P. (2013). "Projections of the pace of warming following an abrupt increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration". Environmental Research Letters. 8 (3): 034039. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034039. ISSN 1748-9326.
  19. ^ a b Myhrvold, Nathan. "Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight". Icarus. 303: 91–113. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.024.
  20. ^ Myhrvold, N. (1998). "ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Supporting Science". Science. 282 (5389): 621–622. doi:10.1126/science.282.5389.621.
  21. ^ Barsbold, R.; Currie, P. J.; Myhrvold, N. P.; Osmólska, H.; Tsogtbaatar, K.; Watabe, M. (2000). "A pygostyle from a non-avian theropod". Nature. 403 (6766): 155–156. doi:10.1038/35003103. PMID 10646588.
  22. ^ Currie, Philip; Myhrvold, Nathan (1997). "Supersonic sauropods? Tail dynamics in the diplodocids". Paleobiology. 23 (4): 393–409.
  23. ^ Horner, J. R.; Goodwin, M. B.; Myhrvold, N. (2011). Roopnarine, Peter (ed.). "Dinosaur Census Reveals Abundant Tyrannosaurus and Rare Ontogenetic Stages in the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA". PLoS ONE. 6 (2): e16574. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016574. PMC 3036655. PMID 21347420.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  24. ^ Myhrvold, N. (1983). "Runaway particle production in de Sitter space". Physical Review D. 28 (10): 2439–2444. Bibcode:1983PhRvD..28.2439M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.28.2439.
  25. ^ Myhrvold, Nathan. "Even Genius Needs a Benefactor". Scientific American. 314 (2): 11–11. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0216-11.
  26. ^ Gibbs, W. W.; Myhrvold, N. (2011). "A new spin on cooking". Scientific American. 304 (3): 23. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0311-23a. PMID 21438483.
  27. ^ "Technologists Paul G. Allen and Nathan P. Myhrvold announce $12.5 million in support for revolutionary new telescope". spaceref.com. August 1, 2000. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
  28. ^ "Computer History Museum unboxes a Babbage difference engine". Retrieved April 28, 2008.
  29. ^ "The Computer History Museum Extends Its Exhibition of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2". press release. Computer History Museum. March 31, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2009.
  30. ^ "The Babbage Engine exhibit at Computer History Museum". Retrieved April 7, 2011.
  31. ^ Difference Engine Leaves Computer History Museum, Mark Moack, Mountain View Voice, January 28, 2016
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  33. ^ "Edge profile". Retrieved May 10, 2007.
  34. ^ "Modernist Cuisine". Retrieved September 15, 2010.
  35. ^ a b Mims, Christopher. ""Albedo Yachts" and Marine Clouds: A Cure for Climate Change?". Scientific American. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  36. ^ IntellectualVentures (October 26, 2009), The Stratoshield "Hose to the Sky" Could Reverse Global Warming, retrieved January 6, 2018
  37. ^ "Solving Global Warming with Nathan Myhrvold". CNN.
  38. ^ "Nathan Myhrvold Full Session".
  39. ^ "When Patents Attack!".
  40. ^ Wyatt, Edward (July 16, 2013). "Inventive, at Least in Court". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  41. ^ Myhrvold, Nathan P. "An Empirical Examination of WISE/NEOWISE Asteroid Analyses and Results". Poster at the 49th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, October 2017. https://dps2017-aas.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=1D-29-3E-5C-5D-47-88-F8-6F-EA-4C-F1-63-B2-D1-89 Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  42. ^ Myhrvold, Nathan P. "An Empirical Examination of the NEOWISE Results and Data Analysis". Abstract of talk presented at the 229th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, January 5, 2017.https://aas.org/files/aas229-abstracts-pdf.pdfRetrieved January 6, 2018.
  43. ^ Myhrvold, Nathan (May 20, 2016). "Asteroid thermal modeling in the presence of reflected sunlight with an application to WISE/NEOWISE observational data". arXiv:1605.06490 [astro-ph].
  44. ^ Chang, Kenneth (May 23, 2016). "How Big Are Those Killer Asteroids? A Critic Says NASA Doesn't Know". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  45. ^ Hand, Eric (May 23, 2016). "Billionaire technologist accuses NASA asteroid mission of bad statistics". Science | AAAS. Retrieved January 6, 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  46. ^ Billings, Lee. "For Asteroid-Hunting Astronomers, Nathan Myhrvold Says the Sky Is Falling". Scientific American. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  47. ^ "NASA Response to Recent Paper on NEOWISE Asteroid Size Results". NASA/JPL. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  48. ^ "2012 James Beard Foundation Book Awards" (PDF). The James Beard Foundation. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
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  52. ^ "Myhrvold reflects on 'Magic of Invention'". Princeton University. Retrieved January 6, 2018.

Further reading

  • Auletta, Ken, "The Highwaymen", Harvest Books, 1998. ISBN 0-15-600573-5 — cf Chapter 17: The Microsoft Provocateur: Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Gates Corporate Gadfly.
  • Edstrom, Jennifer and Eller, Marlin, "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside: How The World's Richest Corporation Wields Its Power", Holt Paperbacks, 1999. ISBN 0-8050-5755-2

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