David M. Magerman's Home Page

Contact Information:

E-mail: magerman@cs.stanford.edu

Who I am and What I do

I'm unemployed! I recently left my job as a research scientist (and former head of production) at Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund management company founded by Jim Simons which manages the Medallion fund (among others).

I am now living in the Philadelphia suburbs, working from home while I help raise my three children. I'm spending my non-family time investing in (mostly technology) companies as an angel investor and venture capitalist. I'm also involved in a number of local and national Jewish philanthropic efforts, including Partners In Torah (which operates Jewpiter for Birthright alums), In His Image, The Chevra, and Jewish day schools in the Philadelphia area.

Earlier in my academic career, I did research on the statistical natural language parsing problem, culminating in my thesis, entitled Natural Language Processing as Statistical Pattern Recognition. Here's a list of the rest of my publications.

Most Frequently Used Pages

  • The Internet Globe - My personal Internet newspaper from CRAYON
  • The New York Times
  • The Washington Post
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • CNN.com
  • ESPN SportsZone
  • Sports Illustrated
  • Google
  • Searching the Web

  • Google
  • The Yahoo Server
  • BigBook Directory Search - An on-line nationwide Yellow-Pages with maps of locations
  • Switchboard - An excellent white-pages directory
  • Internet US Yellow Pages - courtesy of Bob Lyman
  • Dexknows Online Phone Book - courtesy of Rebecca Murphy
  • All-In-One Search Page - Lots of search engines bundled together
  • Akama.com business directory
  • Fun Stuff

  • Rex Parker does the Times Crossword
  • Motif Backgammon
  • Fandango
  • Concert Connection (1-800-ALL-SHOWS)
  • ShowMeTickets - I've never used this service. Let me know if you like it.
  • Conservative Judaism Pages

  • Har Zion Temple
  • Perelman Jewish Day School
  • Barrack Hebrew Academy (formerly Akiba Hebrew Academy)
  • Rabbinical Assembly
  • Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
  • Orthodox Judaism Pages

  • Lower Merion Synagogue
  • Chabad-Lubavitch of the Main Line
  • Aish Philadelphia
  • Torah Academy of Philadelphia
  • Stern Hebrew High School
  • Abrams Hebrew Academy
  • General Jewish Resources

  • Hebcal: Jewish Calendar Tools
  • The Jewish Exponent
  • Forward.com
  • Partners In Torah
  • The Chevra
  • Navigating the Bible
  • Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (linear translation)

  • magerman@cs.stanford.edu