Back in June I included a video of a Microsoft Research project called TouchLight in the keynote I gave at Eunis 2006 on how computation will affect the sciences and scientists. Afterwards I had several interesting conversations about how . It seems this is now likely that TouchLight will be brought to market this year by Eon ...

Interesting and balanced article discussing Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures and patent reform in the US. [Update] A Business Week article from earlier in the month : ''Inside Nathan Myhrvold's Mysterious New Idea Machine''

Interesting comment from Lawrence Lessig concerning the recently released Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office. Lawrence reports surprise at people's surprise that Microsoft and CC would work together and says ''Microsoft has been on the right side of a number of important issues — spectrum, net neutrality, identity — and I’m ...