While still a student, Johns Frederick (Jeff) Rulifson designed the software for the most impressive event in computing history, the legendary “Mother of All Demos” at the Computer Society’s Fall Joint Computer Conference in which Douglas Engelbart demonstrated essentially all the fundamental elements of modern personal computing: windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor.    Rulifson’s subsequent career as a computer scientist is an unbroken series of significant contributions in artificial intelligence, office information systems, research, standards, and engineering management. He has advanced the computer art at Stanford Research Institute’s Augmentation Research…