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Terry Barnes and Shoko Tsuji say (28 April 1997):

We've got two daughters now. Sarah is 3 years old and Michelle is approaching 16 months. They keep us very busy. I'm working part-time for Expert Support, a company that Jan Clayton and Denny Brown started. Terry is still (believe it or not) working for Teknowledge. We're still waiting for our kids to get older so we can resume some semblance of a normal life again. Right now, our days our filled with chasing after our toddler and helping our three year old dig for worms in our, yet to be started, garden.

John Brugge says (21 April 1997):

My wife, Sara, has helped turn me on to women's basketball, and with cable we could watch the Cardinal through at least part of the NCAA. The overtime loss to Old Dominion was a heartbreaker, and made me want OD to lose to Tennessee even more. It helped even more that Sara's brother teaches at UT so that we've become slightly partial fans of "the Vols."

The big news is that Sara and I are in the process of adopting a child right now. We're in the waiting process now, with all of the paper work completed and getting scrutinized by the INS, since we're adopting from abroad (Guatemala.) We're hoping that the process is completed and we're home with a child by the end of the year, although the timing is more dependent on the US and Guatemalan bureaucrats than anything else. It's an exciting and slightly impatient time.

update (27 May): Their son Oscar was born in Guatemala and they are anxiously awaiting the chance to bring him home!

Alan Garvey says (22 April 1997):

I'm teaching this year at Pacific Lutheran University here in sunny (today anyway) Tacoma. I've accepted a tenure-track job at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri starting in the fall. Truman was known as Northeast Missouri State until about a year ago. It is a really good state liberal arts college in the middle of freaking nowhere.

Reed Hastings says (21 April 1997):

I've got one kid, another on the way, and our company just got acquired by Rational. Living in Santa Cruz down the street from Alan Noble.

Mike Hewett says (6 May 2001):

I am now back at Stanford, having finished my PhD at Texas. I am working with Russ Altman on knowledge bases for bioinformatics data. I have a ten year old daughter, Allie, who lives in Florida with Noi.

Djuki Muliawan says (25 April 1998):

Right after Stanford I worked for Oracle for 6 years. I quit in 1995 and start a consulting practice with a friend. I now live in Los Altos, California.

Hwee Tou Ng says (27 April 1997):

I am now working in DSO National Laboratories, a government R&D setup in Singapore, doing R&D work in natural language processing.

Alan Noble says (5 June 1997):

After sampling big corporate America for eight years working for Schlumberger in San Jose, I quit last November to found a small Internet services company Netmind with 2 other guys. Perhaps you've tried using URL-minder our Web page change detection and notification robot? I wrote it. Anway, we're now 5 strong, soon to be 7, and closing our first VC round next month. Know any software engineers looking for a great job in Santa Cruz?

My daughter, Vela, is now 3 1/2 years old, and driving Susie and I crazy with her unbounded energy. We just found a good book, How to raise your spirited child. We're living in Santa Cruz up the street from Reed and Patty. Life is good.

Matt Pallakoff says (22 April 1997):

I'm living in Mountain View - recently left Apple.

Dan Scales says (9 May 1997):

After working at Sun for a couple of years, I went back to Stanford to get a Ph.D. in the area of parallel processing. I finished in 1995 and have been working at DEC WRL for almost two years. We get a lot of freedom here at WRL and my research has been going well, so I'm pretty happy.

Bob Schulman says (22 April 1997):

I'm pretty busy in this startup, the valley is nuts right now. Everyone is doing startups, and everyone asks each other for leads on recruiting. If you ever want to get a job back here, this would be a great time.

Oh, and the new baby, Elana Rose, born April 1, keeps us busy as well.

Larry Selig says (31 March 1998):

I'm living in Austin working for Trilogy and actually applying a fair amount of the knowledge I acquired while at Stanford! I've been with Trilogy over 6 years now and have watched us grow from about 15 people to over 400! Like everyone else, we are constantly recruiting people to join Trilogy and help build the company even more.

R says (22 April 1997):

Why am I up at 2AM? Add that to the list of things I do not know. [ Actually, he is finishing his PhD at Pittsburgh and job-hunting.]

How did I find all of you?

The Ahoy! Homepage Finder was able to locate most of the people. For a couple of others I used Alta Vista or a phone directory search using Database America. About twenty-five people now have been located through known MSAI people, sometimes via several indirect pointers (example: Jean-Luc Brouillet knew Terry Barnes who knew Shoko Tsuji who knew Gordon Foyster). I also used the whois program to narrow down domain names when there were several possibilities. And finally, I used the Stanford Alumni Locator to figure out when some of you graduated.

As a last resort I'll ask Grace Smith (yep, she's still at the KSL) to dig up a list of people that are still missing.

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Author: Micheal S. Hewett
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Last Updated: Tuesday, April 22, 1997