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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland. Brandon Goddard CSCE 221-200H Apr 10, 2014. Background. Born May 16 th , 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska First computer experience was on SIMON in 1950. Senior Science Fair: designed a magnetic drum memory

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Ivan Sutherland

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  1. Ivan Sutherland Brandon Goddard CSCE 221-200H Apr 10, 2014

  2. Background • Born May 16th, 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska • First computer experience was on SIMON in 1950. • Senior Science Fair: designed a magnetic drum memory • B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology (1959) • M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California IT (1960) • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (1963) • Worked under Claude Shannon • Doctoral thesis: Sketchpad: the first GUI

  3. Sketchpad: 1963 • Computers in the 1960’s were not interactive, but ran batches of jobs • Developed on the TX-2, which had a 9” CRT with 512 x 512 array of directly addressed pixels. • No OS, just a macro assembler • Had a pen to identify computer-drawn objects. • Sketchpad: allowed user to use pen to draw on the display • Pen provided coordinates, keyboard provided drawing commands • Previous objects could be selected, rotated, scaled, and moved. • Objects could be stored on magnetic tape and edited later. • Introduced hierarchical drawings, non-procedural programming, and interactive GUI. • “I didn’t know it was hard.”

  4. Work after Sketchpad • Accepted U.S. Army commission after graduating MIT • Became head of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) in 1964 • Allocated money to sponsor research in timesharing and AI • Associate Professor of EE at Harvard • Created first Augmented Reality Display: Sword of Damocles-0 • Professor of CS at University of Utah. • Founded Evans & Sutherland with David C. Evans • Real-time hardware, 3D computer graphics, and printer languages • 1970’s – RAND • Animated movies • Professor of CS at Cal IT, founded the CS department • Currently working at Asynchronous Research Center at Portland State University • Founded with his wife MarlyRoncken to develop asynchronous computers

  5. Awards • Member - National Academy of Engineering – 1973 • Member - National Academy of Science – 1978 • IEEE Emanual Emanuel R. Piore Award – 1986 • ACM Turning Award – 1988 • Contributions and innovations in computer graphics • For his work on Sketchpad and after • ACM Software System Award – 1993 • IFF Pioneer Award – 1994 • IEEE John von Neumann Medal -1998 • Kyoto Prize – 2012

  6. Works Cited • http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm • http://www.pdx.edu/insidepsu/kyoto-prize-laureate-ivan-sutherland • https://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/images/pages/ivan-sutherland_jpg.htm • http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2012/06/ivan_sutherland_portland_state.html • http://amturing.acm.org/photo/sutherland_3467412.cfm • http://cyberneticzoo.com/tag/cybernetics/page/6/

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