There's a whole lot of names to attach to Intellectual Ventures; Myhrvold is only the most visible. Their list of Senior Inventors may be particularly interesting to Hacker News members. I don't think there's any "run through the mud" here, I imagine these folks are all proud of their work at Intellectual Ventures.

Here's what's on IV's site today at http://www.intellectualventures.com/index.php/inventor-netwo...

Bran Ferren: Co-Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc. • Daniel Hillis: Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Minds, Inc. • Leroy Hood: Co-Founder and Director, Institute for Systems Biology • Muriel Ishikawa: Senior Scientist and Inventor • Robert Langer: Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • John Latham: Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester, U.K. • Eric Leuthardt: Neurosurgeon & Biomedical Engineer • Roy Levien: Co-Founder and Consulting Inventor, Rax • Mark Malamud: Co-Founder & Consulting Inventor, Rax • John Pendry: Professor, Imperial College London • John Rinaldo: User Interface Architect • David Smith: Augustine Scholar & Professor, Duke University • Thomas Weaver: Senior Interviewer, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation • Chuck Whitmer: Software Architect • Richard Zare: Blake Wilbur Professor, Stanford University