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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
                  Sun Scientists Win ACM Award
   
SunFLASH Vol 27 #8					          March 1991 
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          Development of Text Processing System Honored

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --March 11, 1991-- The Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) presented its 1990 ACM Software Systems Award to Jeff
Rulifson and Bill English of Sun Microsystems and Doug Engelbart of
Stanford University for their development of NLS, a pioneering
computer-based text processing system. The award is given annually to
institutions or individuals recognized for developing software systems
that have had a lasting influence on the computer industry. Previous
winners include the developers of UNIX(R), PostScript(R), VisiCalc and
SMALLTALK.

Rulifson, English and Engelbart developed the NLS system at the
Stanford Research Institute during the mid-1960s to experiment with
software and hardware tools that would make people more productive
using computers. Technologies based on the system include interactive
display-based editing using a mouse, hypertext, outline processors and
videoconferencing. The early work done on NLS is the foundation for
many of today's research systems and desktop software applications:
for example, hypertext systems are becoming widely used in education
and libraries.

Rulifson is currently director of publications and information design
at Sun.  English is Sun's director of internationalization. His
responsiblities include ensuring that Sun workstations and servers used
globally are customized for the country in which they are located.
Doug Engelbart is director of the Bootstrap Institute, which is
associated with Stanford University's Design Research Institute.

Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's oldest and largest educational and
scientific computing society. It is a non-profit association with more
than 85,000 members worldwide dedicated to advancing the arts and
sciences of information technology.

PR contact Lisa Ganier (415) 336-5637

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Jim Adams (212) 869-7440 

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