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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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