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  Biography of Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland is considered by many to be the creator of Computer Graphics.
Ivan Sutherland was born in Hartings, Nebraska in 1938.
Sutherland was one of the few high school students to have ever written a computer program in that era.
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  Inventor of the Week: Archive
Ivan Sutherland was born in 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska.
When Sutherland got out of graduate school in 1963, he was inducted into the Army as First Lieutenant and assigned to the National Security Agency as an electrical engineer.
For the next two years, Sutherland commissioned and managed a variety of contractors in research projects devoted to furthering the field of computer science, including timesharing and artificial intelligence.
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 Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Ivan Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ivan Sutherland, an electronics engineer, was one of the early pioneers of computer graphics.
Sutherland was born in Hastings, Neb. He always considered himself to be an engineer and believed that his father’s career as a civil engineer significantly influenced his own accomplishments.
Sutherland titled his 1963 Ph.D. thesis “Sketchpad: A Man-machine Graphical Communications System.” Sketchpad’s purpose was to simplify the exchange of information between people and computers.
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 Learn more about Ivan Sutherland in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ivan Edward Sutherland was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovate program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers.
Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (known now as Carnegie-Mellon University), 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 acclerated 3D computer graphics and printer languages.
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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.
From 1968 to 1974, Sutherland was a professor at the University of Utah.
Sutherland is currently a Vice President and Fellow at Sun Microsystems and is a visiting scholar in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley (Fall 2005 - Spring 2007).
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 Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality
Ivan Sutherland, while conducting his initial research in immersive technologies, Sutherland wrote The Ultimate Display in 1965 in which he made the first advance toward marrying the computer to the design, construction, navigation and habitation of virtual worlds.
Sutherland predicted that advances in computer science would eventually make it possible to engineer virtual experiences that were convincing to the senses.
Sutherland believed in the ineffable potential of computers to transform the abstract nature of mathematical constructions into habitable, expressive worlds in the spirit of Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland.
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 Ivan Sutherland Summary
Sutherland and his students refined the animation of their simulated figures; they developed "smooth curves" and lighting and highlight effects that began to replace the original "wireframe" models.
Sutherland's last written work in computer graphics was a joint paper with Sproull titled, "A Characterization of Ten Hidden Surface Algorithms." Sutherland would say in a 1989 interview that this "seemed to tidy up a loose end," and he counts it as the time at which he stopped being involved with computer graphics for good.
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.
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 Computing Pioneer Challenges the Clock
Jo C. Ebergen, left, and Ivan Sutherland of Sun Microsystems are pursuing an approach to computer chip design that is based on asynchronous logic.
Sutherland says that after a decade of work his group has made breakthroughs that will soon make asynchronous computer designs possible on a significant scale.
Sutherland to enter into a wager over whether asynchronous designs would be widely adopted but that the two men had not yet agreed on the terms of the bet.
www.cs.columbia.edu /async/misc/nyt-3-5-2001-sutherland.html   (1159 words)

  
 Ivan Sutherland
Ivan E. Sutherland was born in Hastings, Nebraska in 1938.
Ivan's first experience with a computer was with SIMON, a relay-based mechanical computer that was lent to the Sutherland household by Edmund Berkeley.
At age 26, Lt. Sutherland was given a secretary and $15 million a year, and was told to "go sponsor computer research." For the next two years, Ivan commissioned and managed a variety of contractors in research projects that were building modern computer science.
www-static.cc.gatech.edu /classes/cs6751_97_fall/projects/ms-squared/sutherland.html   (955 words)

  
 Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovate program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers.
Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (known now as Carnegie-Mellon University), 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 acclerated 3D computer graphics and printer languages.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/i/iv/ivan_sutherland.html   (199 words)

  
 Ivan Sutherland
An engineer, professor, capitalist and entrepreneur, Dr. Ivan Sutherland is a true pioneer of user interface design.
From a very young age Ivan Sutherland took an interest in computers, being one of the first high school students in his time to write a computer program.
Sutherland used a "lightpen" to create engineering drawings directly on the screen.
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 The Franklin Institute Certficates of Merit - Dr. Ivan E. Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At a time when cathode ray tube monitors were themselves a novelty, Dr. Ivan Sutherland's 1963 software-hardware combination, Sketchpad, enabled users to draw points, line segments and circular arcs on a cathode ray tube with a light pen.
Born in 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska, Dr. Sutherland has a 1959 B.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University, a 1960 MS from the California Institute of Technology and a 1963 Ph.D. (in Electrical Engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sutherland is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Sigma Xi, and the Association for Computing Machinery.
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 IVAN SUTHERLAND - Definition
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.
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 Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovate program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers.
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".
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 Industry Recognizes Key Innovators at Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and Vice President, received the 2005 Computer History Museum Fellows Award in honor of his lifelong-contributions to computer graphics and education.
Sutherland was recognized for his creativity and innovative work with Sketchpad, a groundbreaking interactive computer-aided design system, which became the subject of his PhD dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sutherland joined Sun as a founding member of Sun Labs in 1990, after serving as chairman of computer science at California Institute of Technology and vice president of the consulting firm Sutherland, Sproull and Associates.
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 PRESS RELEASE The Computer History Museum Presents an Evening With Ivan Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sutherland, who will receive the Computer History Museum Fellow Award at 6 p.m., Tuesday, October 18, in honor of his Sketchpad computer-aided design system and for lifelong contributions to computer graphics and education, believes that fun and research are inexorably intertwined.
Sutherland was born in Hastings, Nebraska, in 1938.
Sutherland has won many awards for his work including the ACM Turing Award (1988); the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1986); and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998).
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 Ivan Sutherland at AllExperts
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.
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.
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 IVAN SUTHERLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ivan Sutherland 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.
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.
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 ivan-sutherland
Sutherland's Ph.D. thesis program, Sketchpad, showed in 1962 that a person could interact with a computer by drawing on the display surface with a lightpen.
Perhaps most notably, in 1967, he and a research group at Harvard were experimenting with the presentation of three-dimensional data through the use of a binocular display system which was coupled to the user's head — the head-mounted display.
By any account, Ivan Sutherland's insight and experimental work is the loam from which virtual reality has grown.
www.uni-weimar.de /architektur/InfAR/lehre/Course01/i_suth.html   (245 words)

  
 A VR Geek Blog » Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland invented the Sketchpad which was the first graphical user interface.
Ivan’s last paper about graphics, “A Characterization of Ten Hidden-Surface Algorithms” offers a taxonomy of the then-known solutions to this problem.
Led by Professor Evans and Professor Sutherland, the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah became the premier center for the development of computer graphics.
cb.nowan.net /blog/2004/12/07/ivan-sutherland   (525 words)

  
 Engology, Engineer Ivan Sutherland, Professional Engineering, Chartered Engineering, Women in Engineering, Inventors, ...
Ivan Sutherland is known as the father of computer graphics.
While in Salt Lake City, Sutherland was also a professor at the University of Utah, where his research in computer graphics helped make the university one of the top graphics research institutions in the country.
Dr. Sutherland holds 8 patents in computer graphics and hardware and is the author of numerous publications.
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 Evans and Sutherland
Evans & Sutherland is the world’s first computer graphics company and has developed and advanced computer graphics technology for almost four decades.
Focusing primarily on digital planetariums and digital cinemas worldwide, E&S is now the world’s only turnkey provider for a complete digital theater.
Evans and Sutherland to hold a conference call to discuss third quarter 2007 results.
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 Ivan Sutherland
Ivan wrote SketchPad which introduced a half dozen or more wonderful concepts to the field of interactive computer graphics.
AlanKay once asked Ivan how he had been able to solve so many hard problems so early.
Ivan replied that he just didn't know that they were supposed to be hard.
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 Ivan Sutherland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
burks.bton.ac.uk /burks/foldoc/40/61.htm   (141 words)

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