Nathan Myhrvold

Name: Nathan Myhrvold

Born: August 3, 1959, in Seattle, Washington, USA

Computer-related contributions

• Former CTO (chief technology officer) at Microsoft, where he founded Microsoft Research in 1991.
• Holds 17 U.S. patents assigned to Microsoft, and has applied for more than 500 patents himself.
• Co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, a patent portfolio developer that acquired over 30,000 patents relating to technology.
• Professional chef and author.

Significant publications

• Modernist Cuisine (2011).

Honors and awards

• Named to its list of top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine (2010).

Quotes

"The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft."