Nathan Myhrvold

...nuclear reactor. The model draws from the work of TerraPower LLC, a project of Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based invention house headed up by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold. Bill Gates is among the...

In this article: Microsoft, Craig Mundie, University of Washington, Deforestation, Princeton University, Cornell University, Intellectual Ventures, and Xbox 360

...3:57pm PDT Readers of the new book "SuperFreakonomics" will get the inside word on ideas including the hurricane-suppression concept dreamed up by Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, with help from Bill Gates and others. When TechFlash...

In this article: Intellectual Ventures, Daily Show, Global warming, University of Miami, Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Jon Stewart

...change, its causes and remedies. In this investigation they have called upon a number of experts with relevant expertise, including Nathan Myhrvold, a former colleague of Professor Stephen Hawking at Cambridge, who went on to become Bill...

In this article: Carbon dioxide, Steven Levitt, Climate change, Freakonomics, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Bill Gates, and Stephen Dubner

...say is smarter than Nathan," Gates, an investor in IV, once observed. In 1999, when he left Microsoft, Myhrvold appeared on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. At the same time he is famously penny-pinching. As he walks through the...

In this article: Global warming, Carbon dioxide, Al Gore, Coal, Bill Gates, Climate change, and Nobel Prize

The Road Ahead The Road Ahead, a book written by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson and published in November 1995, summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the...

In this article: Bill Gates, Microsoft, The Road Ahead, Peter Rinearson, World Wide Web, Information superhighway, Monopoly, The Sunday Times, Education, and National Education Association

...Mexico and other areas vulnerable to tropical storms. But it turns out that's far from the only idea Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures has dreamed up to save the planet from calamity. Here's another one: Combat climate change by pumping...

In this article: Intellectual Ventures, Climate change, Global warming, Microsoft, Steven Levitt, Invasive species, Helium, and Freakonomics

...operating system. Mr. Gates and his former lieutenant Nathan Myhrvold were walking out of the morning session when two reporters, including this one, asked Mr. Gates for a comment on the new Google operating system. Read the rest of this...

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...to be killed than drunk drivers). The most intriguing chapters are inspired by Microsoft alum Nathan Myhrvold ("I don't know anyone I would say is smarter than Nathan," Bill Gates once said). Myhrvold's hurricane killer is a seawall...

In this article: Freakonomics, Global warming, Al Gore, University of Chicago, Roe v. Wade, Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Mount Pinatubo

Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he's got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying-along with Nathan Myhrvold and others from the Intellectual Ventures gang-to patent a smart engine with electromagnetic pistons. The...

In this article: Bill Gates, Electromagnet, Ford Focus, and Intellectual Ventures