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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 s (see RFC 5). Although never used, DEL was an early precursor to Sun Microsystems 's Java Programming Language . 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. EXTERNAL LINKS |