Johns F. (Jeff) Rulifson (born
August 20, 1941) is a
computer
scientist largely known for his involvement at the
Augmentation Research Center,
at then-named Stanford Research Institute (now
SRI International) in implementing the
oN-Line System (NLS), a system
that foreshadowed many future developments in modern computing and
networking. Although
Douglas
Engelbart was the founder and leader of ARC, Rulifson's
innovative programming was essential to the realization of
Engelbart's vision.
Rulifson was also an instrumental figure during the early days of
the
ARPANET. He developed the
Decode-Encode Language (DEL), which
is documented in the early history of ARPANET in the form of
several
Request for Comment
(see RFC 5). Although never used, DEL was an early precursor to
Sun Microsystems's
Java programming language.
Rulifson
earned a doctorate in computer science from Stanford
.
Rulifson
left SRI to join the Scientific Systems Lab (SSL) within Xerox PARC
during the 1970s. While at PARC, he worked
on implementing distributed office systems. In
1990, Rulifson won the Association for Computing
Machinery's Software System Award for implementing groundbreaking
innovations such as
hypertext, outline
processors, and
video
conferencing. He currently works for Sun Microsystems
Laboratories, in
Ivan Sutherland's
lab.
In 1994, he was inducted as a
Fellow of the
Association for
Computing Machinery.
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