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10 Years of Impact: Technology, Products, and People

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Ten Years of Technologies from Sun Labs

Over the past decade, Sun Labs has had a hand in the development of products and technologies that have improved people's lives and created a multi-billion-dollar economic impact. The matrix below presents just a small fraction of the projects undertaken at Sun Labs since 1991. These examples were chosen from a few of the papers in the tenth anniversary volume, "The First Ten Years," chosen to highlight the breadth of the Labs' projects and their significance to Sun. The entire volume of papers is posted at: [ The First Ten Years ].

Sun Product

Technology from Sun Labs

People

Java™ Software Platform
The portable, platform-independent software environment

Java virtual machine specifications, Java HotSpot™ technology, Java Remote Method Invocation interface, Java KVM, JavaSpaces architecture, JavaTest™ software, 100% Pure Java specification

Dave Ungar, Jim Mitchell, Yousef Khalidi, Sanjay Radia, Peter Kessler, Jonathan Gibbons, Graham Hamilton, Peter Madany
Spotless:
Mario Wolczko, Antero Taivalsaari, Bill Bush
ExactVM:
Ole Agesen
Hotspot:
Lars Bak, Urs Hoelzle, David Detlefs, David Ungar
MVM:
Greg Czajkowski, Laurent Daynes
GC:
Steve Heller, Alex Garthwaite, Derek White
JRMS:
Steve Hanna, Miriam Kadansky, Phil Rosenzweig

Java Programming Language
The "write once, run anywhere" programming language

Enhancements to the Java language and software development tools

James Gosling, Ken Arnold, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Greg Bollella

SPARC™ v9 Architecture
The technological foundation of Sun's UltraSPARC microprocessors

64-bit addressing, upward compatibility with previous-generation SPARC processors

David R. Ditzel, David Weaver, Gary Lauterbach

High-speed Chips Faster chips that consume less power than conventional designs

Asynchronous circuit design technology

Ivan Sutherland, Bob Sproull, Charles Molnar, Jo Ebergen, William Coates, Jon Lexau, Ian Jones, David Harris

Sun™ Cluster 3.0 Software Increase uptime for groups of servers

Solaris Management Console™ technology

Yousef Khalidi, Vlada Matena, Moti Thadani, Ken Shiriff, Jose Bernabeu, Declan Murphy

ShowMe Whiteboard™ Software An interactive tool for collaborative desktop videoconferencing

SunForum™ technologies

 David Gedye, John Tang

Software Testing Tools


ADL and TDD languages, ADL translator

 Alberto Savoia, Roger Hayes, Sriram Sankar, Roongko Doong, Matt Evans

Sun MediaCenter Hardware A video-on-demand server product

Technologies for the creation, storage/retrieval, transport, and presentation of rich, interactive, networked media

 James Hanko

Access X and Mercator Human accessibility products for the Sun environment

Technology for blind access to the UNIX® environment and keyboard enhancements to the Solaris™ Operating Environment

 Earl Johnson, Eric Bergman

Sun Ray™ Desktops Provide instant access to files and resources of your desktop computer from anywhere

Hot Desk Technology

 J. Duane Northcutt, Jim Hanko, Jerry Wall, Alan Ruberg, Lawrence Butcher, Marc Schneider, Paul Hansen, and Neil Wilhelm

LOCKSS System Data integrity and document protection solution

LOCKSS polling system and unique integrity system

 David Rosenthal, Vicky Reich

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