Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Edward Sutherland
Born	(1938-05-16) May 16, 1938 (age 78) Hastings, Nebraska, United States
Fields	Computer science Internet Computer graphics
Institutions	Harvard University University of Utah Evans and Sutherland California Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Sun Microsystems Portland State University Advanced Research Projects Agency (1964 - 1966)
Alma mater	MIT (Ph.D., 1963) Caltech (M.S., 1960) Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1959)
Thesis	Sketchpad, a Man–Machine Graphical Communication System (1963)
Doctoral advisor	Claude Shannon
Doctoral students	Danny Cohen, Henri Gouraud, James H. Clark, Bui Tuong Phong, Franklin C. Crow, John Warnock, Robert P. Burton, Michael K. Ullner, Christopher R. Carroll
Known for	Father of computer graphics Sketchpad, considered by many to be the creator of Computer Graphics
Notable awards	Turing Award (1988) Computer Pioneer Award (1985) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998) Association for Computing Machinery Fellow, National Academy of Engineering member, National Academy of Sciences member, Kyoto Prize Computer History Museum Fellow (2005)

Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as the "father of computer graphics." His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field. Sutherland, Evans, and his students from that era invented several foundations of modern computer graphics. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards. In 2012 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".

Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), his master's degree from Caltech, and his Ph.D. from MIT in EECS in 1963.

He invented Sketchpad in 1962 while at MIT. Professor Claude Shannon signed on to supervise Sutherland’s computer drawing thesis. Among others on his thesis committee were Marvin Minsky and Steven Coons. Sketchpad was an innovative program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers. Sketchpad could accept constraints and specified relationships among segments and arcs, including the diameter of arcs. It could draw both horizontal and vertical lines and combine them into figures and shapes. Figures could be copied, moved, rotated, or resized, retaining their basic properties. Sketchpad also had the first window-drawing program and clipping algorithm, which allowed zooming. Sketchpad ran on the Lincoln TX-2 computer and influenced Douglas Engelbart's oN-Line System. Sketchpad, in turn, was influenced by the conceptual Memex as envisioned by Vannevar Bush in his influential paper "As We May Think".

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