Kurt is a mid-western boy who came out to Cambridge in 1966 to study math at MIT. After graduation he traveled overseas for five years: an English teacher in Kyoto(1 year), feeble attempts to learn Spanish in the Dominican Republic and Spain, two years programming in Paderborn, Germany. After a few months respite in Paris, I traveled overland by bus through the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to India. A short trip through SE Asia and I made it home in time for the release of the IBM PC.

I started my own consulting company, Novum Organum, Inc. and wrote lots of software in C, C++, and Java. After about 20 years, I took a job with Tibco Systems as a Systems Architect.

I retired a few years ago and have been studying Complexity Theory, python, modern psychological theories, web-site building, Modo, martial arts, and numerous other topics.