Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland, working at MIT (1963)

Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a computer programmer and Internet pioneer. Image File history File links Ivan-sutherland. ... Image File history File links Ivan-sutherland. ... Image File history File links Ivan-sutherland2. ... Image File history File links Ivan-sutherland2. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hastings is a city located in Adams County, Nebraska. ...

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. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Carnegie Institute of Technology was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie. ... Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... EECS is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, used in universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley. ...

He was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovative program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers. Sketchpad was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis. ...

Sketchpad ran on the Lincoln TX-2 computer and influenced Douglas Engelbart's On-Line System as well as the development of the graphical user interface. Sketchpad, in turn, was influenced by the conceptual Memex as envisioned by Vannevar Bush in his famous paper "As We May Think". For his invention of Sketchpad and related work, Sutherland received the Turing Award in 1988. The Lincoln TX-2 computer was the successor to the Lincoln TX-0 and was known for its role in advancing both artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. ... A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions known as a program. ... Douglas Engelbart Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Norwegian descent. ... The acronym NLS has several possible meanings: In legal studies, NLS serves as shorthand for National Law School of India University. ... A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ... Sketchpad was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis. ... The memex was a theoretical analog computer described by the scientist and engineer Vannevar Bush in the 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The word was a portmanteau of memory extender. Bush described the device as electronically linked to a library and able to display books and... Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. ... Vannevar Bushs essay As We May Think, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible. ... The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1968, Sutherland, with the help of his student Bob Sproull, created what is widely considered to be the first Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Head Mounted Display (HMD) system. It was primitive both in terms of user interface and realism, and the HMD to be worn by the user was so heavy it had to be suspended from the ceiling, and the graphics comprising the virtual environment were simple wireframe rooms. The formidable appearance of the device inspired its name, The Sword of Damocles. Dr. Robert F. Sproull works for Sun Microsystems and is a Sun Fellow, Vice President and Director of Sun Labs Massachusetts in Burlington. ... Virtual Reality (VR) is an environment that is simulated by a computer. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... A Head Mounted Display (HMD) is a device that one wears on ones head to have video information directly displayed in front of ones eyes. ... HMD can mean: Head-mounted display the ISO 3166-1 3-letter country code and an abbreviation for Heard Island and McDonald Islands HMD can also refered to the explosive Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, more commonly refered to as HMDT This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a... Look up system in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the Macintosh operating system, which was called System up to version 7. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... HMD can mean: Head-mounted display the ISO 3166-1 3-letter country code and an abbreviation for Heard Island and McDonald Islands HMD can also refered to the explosive Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, more commonly refered to as HMDT This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a... Computer graphics (CG) is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world. ... Virtual reality (abbreviated VR) describes an environment that is simulated by a computer. ... A wire frame model is a visual presentation of an electronic representation of a three dimensional or physical object used in 3D computer graphics. ... The Sword of Damocles is widely considered to be the first Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Head Mounted Display (HMD) system. ...

With his friend and colleague David Evans, he established Evans and Sutherland, a company that has done pioneering work in the field of real-time hardware, accelerated 3D computer graphics, and printer languages. David C. Evans (1924-1998) was the founder of the computer science department at University of Utah and the founder of Evans & Sutherland, a computer firm which is known as a pioneer in the domain of Computer-generated imagery. ... Evans & Sutherland is a computer firm involved in the computer graphics field. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A printer can be: Someone who operates a printing press, and prints books. ...

Former employees of Evans and Sutherland included the future founders of Adobe (John Warnock) and Silicon Graphics (Jim Clark). Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. ... John Warnock is best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc. ... Silicon Graphics, Inc. ... Dr. James H. Clark (born 1944) first became famous for technological advancement in computer graphics but later became known as a successful entrepreneur. ...

He currently works for Sun Microsystems and has two children, Juliet and Dean, and four grandchildren, Belle, Robert, William and Rose. Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...

External links

• SketchPad
• Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and V.P
• Sutherland's Ph.D. Thesis, Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System. His thesis supervisor was Claude Shannon, father of information theory.
• An Evening with Ivan Sutherland at the Computer History Museum on 19-Oct-2005: »Research and Fun« (online video and partial transcript)