Jeff Rulifson

Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Writing Science)

by Thierry Bardini  · 1 Dec 2000

told me their stories: Don Andrews, Bob Belleville, Peter Deutsch, Bill English, Charles Irby, Alan Kay, Butler Lampson, Harvey Leht- man, Ted Nelson, George Pake, Jeff Rulifson, Dave Smith, Robert Taylor, Keith Uncapher, Jacques Vallee, "Smokey" Wallace, and Jim Warren. Thank you all, and I sincerely hope that you will occasionally find

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atmosphere of innovation was what attracted some of the first stu- dents to join Engelbart's laboratory from the University of Washington, for ex- ample. Jeff Rulifson started in Engelbart's laboratory in January 1966, thanks to a connection to the laboratory via Chuck Kirkley, a close friend of Rulif- son's

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(where it was Deutsch's sophomore year), had come to the laboratory the sum- mer before as interns and had produced a lot of code. Jeff Rulifson's job was to bring up the first real display-based system on the CDC 3100, a batch sys- tem that was shared with other

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that Engelbart envisioned. The user would sit at a Model 33 teletypewriter, and the programs and data processed in batches were stored on tape. Together, Jeff Rulifson and Don Andrews redesigned the CDC 3100 sys- tem, its file structure and the MOL procedures for manipulating its file struc- ture. MOL was a

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staff shared the feeling that "it was both exhilarating and absolutely maddening to work in such an environment" (Wallace 1996), most would have agreed with Jeff Rulifson's expression of the overall atmosphere of the laboratory: "People on SRI and the oN-LIne System 123 board knew, deep in their hearts, that

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way that the audience could watch my hands In the lower window and see the computer action In the upper window. Then we brought in Jeff Rulifson to tell about how the software works. At the same time, his face could be brought in and out behind the display image that he

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various NLS imple- mentations at PARC (POLOS, RCG, UGH) translated into a difficult climate inside Bill English's group, a part of CSL. According to Jeff Rulifson, who eventually had joined P ARC after a short stay at the Stanford Artificial Intelli- gence Laboratory for his Ph.D., it created "a big

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interface rid of the modes that, as we have seen, characterized and, according to some, plagued previous in- terface designs, including that of NLS. Like Jeff Rulifson, whom he had met at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Larry Tesler was a member of Bill English's team inside SSL. With Rulifson, Tesler

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user Interface that was even a little bit better, the chord keyset was no longer cost effective and people wouldn't use It. (Lampson, 1997) Jeff Rulifson even told me that the NLS user interface was made over a week- end and never changed. The definition of what made this new interface

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other directions. In 1969-70, all but one of the seven RFCs authored by ARC members were devoted to technical questions: Bill Duvall, Elmer Shapiro, Jeff Rulifson, John Melvin, and Bill English contributed on various issues related to the network implementation, in parallel with their contributions to the NWG. Of the twenty

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members seem to have stopped dur- ing that year. Of course, some of the early key people at the technical level, such as Elmer Shapiro, Jeff Rulifson, and Bill English, had left the laboratory by then. Rulif- son and English, for instance, along with some other ARC members, moved to PARC in

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to the PDP, and that NLS had to be reim- plemented from scratch. to Very early in the progress of the NWG, ARC staff member Jeff Rulifson pro- posed another way to take care of the other half of these users with his Decode Encode Language proposal. Basically, "the idea was to

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, building trees of display informatIon, and sending other information to the user at his interactive station. (Rulifson, RFC 0005: "DEL," June 2, 1969) According to Jeff Rulifson, "it was generally agreed beforehand [before the ini- tial NWG meeting] that the running of interactive programs across the net- ARPANET, E-matl, and est

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laboratory) should also be included: Pat Connley, Elton Hay, Iris Hopper, Bonnie Huddart, Stevie Jenkins, Chuck Kirkley, Steve Levine, Don Lincicome, Jack Machanik, Steve Paavola, Jeff Rulifson, Judy Sass, Elmer Sha- piro, Kaye Tomlin, and John Wensley. After 1970, ARC grew to a total staff of approximately forty-five people at its

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is available on the site of the Smithsonian at http://www .si.edu /resource/tours/comphist /olsen.html. 4. One understands better the excitement that Jeff Rulifson felt when one realizes that he met Engelbart and the Project GENIE people at the conference where the 940 time-sharing system was first introduced

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at the end of the 1960's. 19. Engelbart and hIs staff were fully aware of the advantages of the raster-scan dIsplay. For instance, Jeff Rulifson (1996) told me that he had come down and had seen a bit-map display in operation at RAND In the Uncapher and Ellis group

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, RFC 0003). At the time of the wrIting of RFC 3, accordIng to Crocker, the Network Working Group "seemed to consist" of Steve Carr (Utah), Jeff Rulifson and Bill Duvall (SRI), and Steve Crocker and Gerard Deloche (UCLA). The distribution list of the RFCs also Included Bob Kahn (BBN), Larry Roberts (ARPA

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff  · 1 Jan 2005  · 394pp  · 108,215 words

and had become friends, and they all came to graduate school at Stanford, where, one after another, they found their way to the Augment project. Jeff Rulifson, Elton Hey, Don Andrews, and Chuck Kirkley came to work during 1966 as the first NLS was being created. Kirkley did not stay long, having

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computer, replaced the CDC minicomputer, the 160A, that the project had begun with. Initially, the system was used in the noninteractive batch mode, but then Jeff Rulifson created a real-time graphics display for the new CDC, and a text editor was also written from scratch. In 1966, the Augmented Human Intellect

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generate different tones depending upon what was being executed, as a way of creating auditory feedback. After introducing the project and the system, Engelbart invited Jeff Rulifson on-screen from Menlo Park. Instantly, there he was on the giant display above Engelbart’s head, a serious young man with dark hair, a

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welcoming world, and in others it was a research group that was as full of politics as any other. Sparks quickly flew between Duvall and Jeff Rulifson, who was one of Engelbart’s lead software designers. The way Duvall saw it was that people who had their own clear technical point of

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. It wasn’t supposed to be Duvall’s job, but that’s the way it ended up. In March 1969, Duvall traveled to Utah with Jeff Rulifson to represent the Augment Group at a Network Working Group meeting sponsored by ARPA. The first four planned sites of the network were UCLA, SRI

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simple, easy-to-use editor, it would be possible to master it in an hour. When he first arrived at PARC, he had met with Jeff Rulifson, who had originally helped design the NLS command language for Engelbart. He told Rulifson that he really didn’t like all the modes that were

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Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

by Pieter Hintjens  · 11 Mar 2013  · 349pp  · 114,038 words

to discuss the HOST software and initial experiments on the network. There emerged from these meetings a working group of three, Steve Carr from Utah, Jeff Rulifson from SRI, and Steve Crocker of UCLA, who met during the fall and winter. The most recent meeting was in the last week of March

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in Utah. Also present was Bill Duvall of SRI who has recently started working with Jeff Rulifson. Crocker, Carr, and Rulifson are not household names. Steve Crocker and his team invented the Requests for Comments, or RFC series. These documents became the

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)

by Adam Fisher  · 9 Jul 2018  · 611pp  · 188,732 words

scratch. The display driver was a hunk of electronics three feet by four feet. Steve Jobs: Doug had invented the mouse and the bitmap display. Jeff Rulifson: An SDS 940 was used for the demo. Butler Lampson: The SDS 940 was a computer system that we developed in a research project at

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, and though he was fired when the company pivoted into Twitter, he continued working at the Twitter offices, on his own project, for several years. Jeff Rulifson was the chief software architect of the NLS, Doug Engelbart’s revolutionary computer system. Steve Russell is the programmer most responsible for creating Spacewar, the

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

by Thomas W. Malone  · 14 May 2018  · 344pp  · 104,077 words

. 10. An early example of the idea of cyber-human learning loops is Doug Engelbart’s concept of “bootstrapping” collective intelligence. See Douglas Engelbart and Jeff Rulifson, “Bootstrapping Our Collective Intelligence,” ACM Computing Surveys 31, issue 4es (December 1999), doi:10.1145/345966.346040. Unlike the concept of business process reengineering, which

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop  · 14 Apr 2001

team devised a "mini-NLS" that could be used for text processing on the terminals. Bob Shur built an animation system. Kay and paLOS's Jeff Rulifson began kicking around ideas for "iconic" programming languages, which would allow kids to write their programs in terms of graphical symbols instead of as text

Dealers of Lightning

by Michael A. Hiltzik  · 27 Apr 2000  · 559pp  · 157,112 words

, James G. Mitchell, James H. Morris, and Timothy Mott. Also, Severo Ornstein, George E. Pake, Max Palevsky, Rod Perkins, Steve Purcell, Jef Raskin, Ron Rider, Jeff Rulifson, John F. Shoch, Richard Shoup, Charles Simonyi, Alvy Ray Smith, William J. Spencer, Robert Spinrad, Robert F. Sproull, M. Frank Squires, Gary K. Starkweather, Paul