Martin Frost, Systems Manager   (contact info)
Computer Science Department — Computer Facilities — Stanford University

My award was for "Creating the first network news service" -- namely the NS News Service System on the Stanford AI Lab computer in 1974. NS was a search engine that could instantly retrieve news stories from the Associated Press and New York Times news wires that NS stored and indexed.

Read more in this NY Times story, this Stanford Engineering article, and in the list of gold medal award winners (PDF).

On 2 April 2013, the Living Computer Museum (LCM) held a gala event to celebrate its grand opening. More than 100 computer pioneers attended the event, representing personalities from the earliest timesharing system to the early waves of innovation in the microcomputer world. That's me in the center in the blue shirt. Bill and Paul are in the row just in front of me.

On 22 Jan 2011, I attended a party at Caltech's Lloyd House -- the house I was in, and president of, as a Caltech undergrad in the 60's. The party was celebrating Lloyd's 50th birthday as well as the 50th anniversary of the infamous Rose Bowl prank carried out by some clever Lloydies four years before I arrived there. Pictured here with me is Lyn Hardy, the mastermind of the Rose Bowl prank, in which 2232 sets of instructions for Washington card section students were replaced with new instructions that successfully displayed "CALTECH" on the game's national TV coverage (see picture below). You can read more in this LA Times article and in this Caltech story.

Juggling	M.S. in CS	Folkdancing	Homers
The Stanford Juggling Research Institute (SJRI) won the silver-medal with our performance in the Teams Championships at the 2004 International Jugglers' Association (IJA) festival. The Stanford Court Jugglers meet on Wednesday evenings (suspended for now). The web page contains directions to our meetings, a list of upcoming festivals and pointers to other interesting juggling web sites. Down With Gravity juggles at Stanford each Friday about 5:30pm in White Plaza or near Tresidder. You'll find lots of SJRI club passing videos on my youtube channel. I taught workshops at over 30 annual IJA festivals, helped organize about 20 IJA festivals, wrote a workshop column in the IJA's Juggler's World magazine for 10 years, helped maintain the IJA website for over 20 years, and have been the IJA Communications Director for 20 years. In 2012, the IJA made me an Honorary Life Member.	Read the story of how it only took me 33 1/3 years to get my Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.	The Mostly Balkan folkdance group meets Thursday evenings at the Menlo Park (CA) Rec Center. The web page shows the class schedule, along with links to other folkdance resources.	I've compiled lists of home runs hit by Ruth, Mantle, Maris, McGwire, Sosa and Bonds in their best seasons through 2001.

Martin collects 74 clubs in the games at the 2010 Berkeley Juggling & Unicycle Festival

Click on video above to watch the fun SJRI silver-medal routine.

The Stanford Juggling Research Institute (SJRI) makes a presentation at the 2004 Isla Vista Juggling Festival: Martin Frost, NeilFred Picciotto, and Rick Rubenstein.	SJRI receives the silver medal in the International Jugglers' Association's 2004 Teams Championships (Vova & Olga win gold).