Johns Frederick (Jeff) Rulifson (born August 20, 1941) is an American computer scientist.

This concept was fully developed in Sun Microsystems's Java programming language almost 30 years later, as applets.

In 1980, he worked for ROLM as an engineering manager and joined Syntelligence, an artificial intelligence applications vendor in Sunnyvale, California, in 1985.

[1] He began working for Sun Microsystems Laboratories in 1987, and held positions including as a director of engineering, technology development, and research groups.

[22] Jeff Rulifsons papers and research from 1956 to 1997 are held at the Computer History Museum, with a guide to his work entitled Guide to the Jeff Rulifson papers, written by Bo Doub, Kim Hayden, and Sara Chabino Lott.

[23] 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.

[24] In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, for his “pioneering work on augmenting human intellect with hypertext, outline processors, and video conferencing.”[25] In 2006 Rulifson was named to the SRI International Hall of Fame.