name: Ivan Sutherland
image: img/ivan-sutherland.png
period: 1960s
Worked interactive computing and CGI. On TX-2 computer he developed a software+input device for interactive computer graphics. Experimented with first virtual reality system.
- Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1959)
- Caltech (M.S., 1960)
- MIT (Ph.D., 1963)
- Taught by Claud Shennon, Marvin Minsky
- DARPA, replaced J.C.R. Licklider when he returned to MIT, 1964
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard
- Professor at the University of Utah
- Professor of Computer Science at Caltech
- Worked at RAND's Information Sciences Department, 1974-1986
- Worked as Fellow and Vice President at Sun Microsystems
- Founder of successful flight-simulation company Evans&Sutherland
- Sketchpad
- Doug Engelbart
- Alan Kay
- PhD thesis "Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System"
- Article "Technology and Courage"
- Chapter 14 in book "Tools for Thought"
- Turing Award materials, 1988
- original demo of the sketchpad, 1963
- Alan Kay lecture, showing summer 1962 demo of sketchpad
- Lecture with a sketchpad demo and author's comments, 1994
- Lecture "Some Thoughts About Concurrency", 2010