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Description: Home Page of David (DJ) Kurlander, Computer Scientist, Inventor, Adventurer, and All-Around Nice Guy. Harvard '85 (A.B. Applied Math), Columbia '93 (Ph.D. Computer Science), Microsoft '92-'05 (Researcher then Product Guy, General Manager), Independent Agent '06-Present.
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Welcome to the family site of DJ (David) , Kathryn, Jake, Joey, and Daniel Kurlander. Currently, only DJ has information that he would like to share with the world. However, we expect this site to grow over time.
Most people call me "D.J.", but my real name is David Joshua Kurlander. Back when I was one of the very first members of Microsoft's User Interface and Graphics Research Group, there were more Davids there than women... so they renamed me. This being Microsoft, I'm lucky that I didn't end up with a 128-bit GUID. Of course, later when I met my wife, she had a brother called "D.J.", so I learned that unique identifiers are a tricky business. But I digress...
If you know me, it is likely from one of the major waystations in my life. I grew up (mainly) in Pikesville, Maryland (and went to what was then called Pikesville Senior High School). Later I went to Harvard University, where I studied Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, and graduated in '85. After that I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University (and various Master's Degrees along the way), finishing up in 1992 or 1993 depending upon on how you count. Along the way, I worked summers a
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