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Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer 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.
May 12, 2024 · Ivan Sutherland, American electrical engineer and computer scientist and winner of the 1988 A.M. Turing Award for ‘his pioneering and visionary contributions to computer graphics, starting with Sketchpad, and continuing after.’
Feb 21, 2023 · Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades. Along the way, he helped to open new pathways for others to explore and dramatically extend: interactive computer graphics, virtual reality, 3D computer graphics, and asynchronous systems, to name but a few.
Apr 19, 2023 · During the 1960s and 1970s, Ivan Sutherland played key roles in computing. Here are five of his biggest contributions to the field →
Sketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012.
Ivan Edward Sutherland was born May 16, 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska, United States. His ancestry is from Scotland and New Zealand, despite his claim that he was named for his mother’s fictitious Russian lover.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is a Fellow with the Association for Computing Machinery. Ivan Sutherland was born in 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska.
