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20 September 2013
Microsoft Alum Writes Counterterrorism Paper That Nails The Real Threat
Business Insider discusses Nathan's paper on strategic terrorism.
20 September 2013
Strategic Terrorism…or how to scare the crap out of people.
Nathan Mhyrvold is the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures. To put it mildly, he is a fairly smart guy. Mr. Mhyrvold decided to publish a ‘little’ research paper titled Strategic Terrorism A Call to Action.
20 September 2013
U.S. has not addressed real threat of strategic terrorism
Nathan's column in the Washington Post about his strategic terrorism paper.
18 September 2013
Meet the Microsoft Billionaire Who's Trying to Reboot U.S. Counterterrorism
Add to Nathan Myhrvold's already eclectic résumé -- which includes ex-chief technology officer of Microsoft, co-founder of one of the world's largest patent-holding firms, and author of a $625 cookbook -- a new credit: terrorism expert.
11 September 2013
Lawfare Podcast Episode #41: Nathan Myhrvold on Strategic Terrorism
Nathan sits down with Lawfare and talks about his latest piece on Strategic Terrorism.
Press Releases
30 September 2013
Climate change: fast out of the gate, slow to the finish
A new study by Carnegie’s Ken Caldeira and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures concludes that about half of the warming occurs within the first 10 years after an instantaneous step increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, but about one-quarter of the warming occurs more than a century after the step increase. Their work is published in Environmental Research Letters.
16 February 2012
Only the lowest CO2 emitting technologies can avoid a hot end-of-century
Could replacing coal-fired electricity plants with generators fueled by natural gas bring global warming to a halt in this century? What about rapid construction of massive numbers of solar or wind farms, hydroelectric dams, or nuclear reactors—or the invention of new technology for capturing the carbon dioxide produced by fossil-fueled power plants and storing it permanently underground? Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures teamed up with Carnegie Institution’s Ken Caldeira to calculate the expected climate effects of replacing the world’s supply of electricity from coal plants with any of eight cleaner options.
© 2012 Nathan Myhrvold
