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 Evans and Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Evans and Sutherland is a computer firm involved in the computer graphics field.
David Evans had started the new Computer Science Department at the University of Utah and was looking for a niche the university could compete in.
Evans and Sutherland meanwhile focused on the hardware side, working from an abandoned barracks on the university grounds.
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 Evans & Sutherland: Just the facts...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Evans & Sutherland is a computer (A machine for performing calculations automatically) firm involved in the computer graphics (The pictorial representation and manipulation of data by a computer) field.
David Evans had started the new Computer Science Department at the University of Utah (additional info and facts about University of Utah) and was looking for a niche the university could compete in.
Ivan Sutherland (additional info and facts about Ivan Sutherland) was perhaps one of the most famous people working in the graphics field.
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 Ivan Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
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.
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 IVAN SUTHERLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ivan Edward Sutherland (født 1938 i Hastings Nebraska), amerikansk datalog, pioner inden for computergrafik og interaktive anvendelser af computere, medstifter af firmaet Evans and Sutherland og Sun Microsystems Labortories.
Sutherland har en bachelor i svagtstrøm fra Carnegie-Mellon University (1959), en master i datalogi fra Caltech (1960), og en Ph.d.
Efter endt uddannelse blev Sutherland ansat hos NSA og derefter i perioden 1964-1965 hos ARPA som leder af IPTO.
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 Encyclopedia: Ivan Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938- in Hastings, Nebraska), younger brother of Bert Sutherland, was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovative program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers.
It was primitive both in terms of user interface and realism; 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 reality were simple wireframe rooms.
David C. Evans (1924-1998) was the founder of the computer science department at University of Utah and the founder of Evans and Sutherland, a computer firm which is known as a pioneer in the domain of Computer-generated imagery.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ivan-Sutherland   (1093 words)

  
 Evans and Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Evans and Sutherland is a computer firm involved in the computer graphics Their products are used primarily by the and large industrial firms for training and and in digital projection environments like planetariums.
David Evans had started the new Computer Science at the University of Utah and was looking for a niche university could compete in.
Evans and Sutherland meanwhile focused on the side working from an abandoned barracks on university grounds.
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 Ivan Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ivan Edward Sutherland, younger brother of Bert Sutherland, was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovative program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers.
With his friend and colleague Dave 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.
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 Ivan Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in ElectricalEngineering from the Carnegie Instituteof Technology (known now as Carnegie-MellonUniversity), his Master's degree from Caltech, and his Ph.D. from MIT.
With his friend and colleague Dave 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.
Former employees of Evans and Sutherland included the future founders of Adobe (John Warnock) and Silicon Graphics (JimClark).
www.therfcc.org /ivan-sutherland-71018.html   (174 words)

  
 Evans & Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He had previously worked on the seminal Sketchpad at MIT in 1963, and had since invented the first 3D display that we would now call virtual reality.
The current CEO is James Oyler, who joined the company in 1994 when David Evans retired.
An Evans and Sutherland computer was used in the creation of the Genesis Device simulation sequence in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, which was one of the first computer graphic sequences ever used in a movie.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evans_and_Sutherland   (504 words)

  
 Success Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Evans and Sutherland designs and builds visual simulation systems and graphics workstations that are used in flight and driving simulators and other high-performance simulators.
The designers at Evans and Sutherland use high-level design with simulation to create their boards; in fact, system simulation and emulation have been a part of their design methodology for many years.
Evans and Sutherland is among the nearly 3,000 customers who include Logic Modeling's products in their board and system design environments.
www.synopsys.com /products/success/e&s.html   (1037 words)

  
 Evans and Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Evans and Sutherland is a computer firm involved in thecomputer graphics field.
David Evans had started the new Computer Science Department at the University of Utah and was looking for a niche the universitycould compete in.
Ivan Sutherland was perhaps one of the most famous people workingin the graphics field.
www.therfcc.org /evans-and-sutherland-175769.html   (191 words)

  
 Business Wire: Evans & Sutherland Founders Honored For Pio... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Evans and Sutherland have been hailed by colleagues, students, and corporate leaders as a partnership of visionaries who enabled the creation of visual displays by general-purpose computers that synthesize motion, color, texture, and imagery.
Evans and Sutherland -- already renowned in the scientific and academic communities -- established the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah in the mid-1960s, focusing efforts on computer graphics.
In 1962, Evans was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, where his group pioneered a multi-user time sharing system, later marketed by Zerox Data Systems as the XDS 940 and considered one of the early, successful time sharing systems.
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 Ivan Sutherland - Helionica
Ivan Edward Sutherland, młodszy brat Berta Sutherlanda - amerykański inżynier, twórca Sketchpada, innowacyjnego programu, który wpłynął na rozwój metod interakcji człowieka z komputerem.
Sutherland zdobył stopień bakałarza z inżynierii elektrycznej w Carnegie Institute of Technology (znany dzisiaj jako Carnegie-Mellon University), stopień magistra w kalifornijskim Caltechu, a stopień doktora w MIT.
Ze swoim kolegą Davidem Evansem założył firmę Evans and Sutherland, która prowadziła pionierskie prace w dziedzinie sprzętu komputerowego czasu rzeczywistego, akcelerowanej grafiki trójwymiarowej i języków drukarek.
www.helionica.pl /index.php/Ivan_Sutherland   (250 words)

  
 Evans and Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
E&S was formed when David Evans[?] recruited Ivan Sutherland to join him at the University of Utah in 1968.
At the time that was artificial intelligence or computer graphics, and realizing that the former was essentially locked up by the larger universities like MIT he decided on the later.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Evans and Sutherland.
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 Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation Jobs - Employment Opportunities at Monster.com
Evans & Sutherland's product offerings include a full range of high-performance visual systems for simulation, training, and virtual reality applications, as well as graphics accelerator products for workstations and personal computers.
Evans & Sutherland provides a broad line of visual system products and related services for use in simulators and trainers for military, commercial, and entertainment applications.
Evans & Sutherland's visual systems are made up of image generators, synthetic environments, and display systems.
company.monster.com /evans   (595 words)

  
 Ivan Sutherland
Za opracowanie Sketchpada i związane z tym prace Sutherland otrzymał w 1988 r.
Sutherland, z pomocą swojego studenta Boba Sproulla, opracował prawdopodobnie pierwszy w świecie system wirtualnej rzeczywistości, używając nakładanych na głowę wyświetlaczy [1] (http://www.sun.com/960710/feature3/alice.html).
Sutherland zdobył stopień bakałarza z inżynierii elektrycznej w Carnegie Institute of Technology (znany dzisiaj jako Carnegie-Mellon University), stopień magistra w kalifornijskim Caltechu, a stopień doktora w
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 IVAN SUTHERLAND - Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions.
He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use.
Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE.
www.hyperdictionary.com /computing/ivan+sutherland   (128 words)

  
 KSL News: Evans and Sutherland Employee Charged with Theft
Prosecutors say the 41 year old employee of Evans and Sutherland used his position as an accounting manager to write himself six checks totaling almost 48 thousand dollars.
According to court documents, Richard Brashear oversaw the accounts payable section of the Evans and Sutherland accounting department.
Evans and Sutherland managers became aware of the problem when they noticed a discrepancy in their accounts.
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 evans and sutherland at Business.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
An Evans and Sutherland computer was used in the creation of the Genesis Device
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Evans and Sutherland: Your GIS News Source - Directions Magazine...
www.business.com /directory/computers_and_software/hardware_and_accessories/evans_and_sutherland   (359 words)

  
 Business Wire: Evans and Sutherland reports strong second quar... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Evans and Sutherland reports strong second quarter results; Revenues up 23 percent over prior year.
In a prominent survey of competitiveness conducted by Aviation Week and Space Technology, Evans & Sutherland was ranked either first or second of all companies measured.
In addition, Dr. David Evans and Dr. Ivan Sutherland, the company's founders, were honored for Lifetime Achievement by the Smithsonian Institution and inducted into the permanent exhibit on Information Technology.
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 Reviews OnLine: Evans and Sutherland StarRider at the Adler Planetarium
The "crown jewel" of this construction is the new Star Rider theater, from Evans and Sutherland.
Other people in the room, who were walking around, while we were flying, had no other visual references and commented that they felt uneasy - their minds had completely believed the experience as being real.
Digistar II, the latest Evans and Sutherland star projection system is part of the StarRider experience.
www.reviewsonline.com /ADLER1.HTM   (658 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Evans & Sutherland weathers turbulence
Sutherland, finalize one of their newest planetarium shows, "Stars of the Pharaohs."
That's the magic Salt Lake-based Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.'s powerful technologies can create, enabling pilots to train without putting either themselves or huge planes in jeopardy.
But while the poor weather in the simulator was only an illusion, the storms of the past few years have been all too real for people associated with E&S. Several years without a profit and a series of employee layoffs have been a recent company staple.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,515037661,00.html   (2103 words)

  
 Ivan Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
classified as doping agents.” De Beer and Knijff write that they assume that “Sutherland took the...
In this scene, the three brothers — plus one servant (Doug Sutherland) who may well...
In more remote areas, Sutherland estimates, it may take five years to set up Wi...
www.wikiverse.org /ivan-sutherland   (317 words)

  
 Electron Density Fitting
Bilder was written for a PDP 11/50 minicomputer and an Evans and Sutherland Picture System 1.
The port to the Evans and Sutherland Picture System 2 was done by Jones, and improved by Ian Tickle of Birkbeck College in London.
The port to the EandS PS 300 was done by Pflugraph, Saper and John Sack working in Flo Quicho's laboratory at Rice University in Houston (Pflugraph, Saper and Quicho, 1984).
www.netsci.org /Science/Compchem/feature14c.html   (1495 words)

  
 Evans and Sutherland E&S-1
The Computer Division of Evans and Sutherland had announced the first two shipments of their first machine in October 1989.
Jean-Yves Leclerc was unable to find funding for a supercomputer project in Europe, so he came to the US to raise funding and interest.
Dave Evans of Evans & Sutherland had been Leclerc's mentor during his graduate studies in the US, and Leclerc succeeded in persuading Evans & Sutherland to create a new division to build high-performance computers.
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 Encyclopedia: Evans and Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Encyclopedia4U - Evans and Sutherland - Encyclopedia Article
Evans had started the new Computer Science Department and was looking for a niche the university could compete in.
Sutherland was perhaps one of the most famous people working in the graphics field.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Evans-and-Sutherland   (565 words)

  
 Evans & Sutherland Elects New Board Member   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"We are very pleased to welcome General McCarthy to Evans and Sutherland's board of directors," said EandS President and CEO James R. Oyler.
Evans and Sutherland produces high-quality visual systems for simulation, training, and visualization in defense and commercial applications; digital theaters; and related applications throughout the world.
EandS is a registered trademark of Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City.
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 Evans & Sutherland Business Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
SALT LAKE CITY --(Business Wire)-- Nov. 22, 2004 -- Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation (EandS(R)) (Nasdaq:ESCC) announced today that total orders of the EP(TM)-1000CT Visual System in the commercial aviation training market has broken the fifty barrier.
Evans and Sutherland produces professional hardware and software to create highly realistic visual images for simulation, training, engineering, and other applications throughout the world.
EandS, EP, ESCP, SPX, and Continuous Texture are trademarks or registered trademarks of Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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