Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938)[1] is an American computer scientist. He is known as the "father of computer graphics".[2]
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Ivan Edward Sutherland |
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| Born | (1938-05-16) May 16, 1938 (age 87)
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| Alma mater | MIT (Ph.D., 1963)
Caltech (M.S., 1960)
Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1959) |
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| Known for | Father of computer graphics
Direct linear transformation
Interactive computing
Sketchpad
Zooming user interface
Cohen–Sutherland algorithm
Sutherland–Hodgman algorithm |
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| Awards | Turing Award (1988)
Computer Pioneer Award (1985)
IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998)
Association for Computing Machinery Fellow,
National Academy of Engineering member,
National Academy of Sciences member,
Kyoto Prize
Computer History Museum Fellow (2005) |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Computer science
Internet
Computer graphics |
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| Institutions | Harvard University
University of Utah
Evans and Sutherland
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Sun Microsystems
Portland State University
Advanced Research Projects Agency (1964 - 1966) |
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| Thesis | Sketchpad, a Man–Machine Graphical Communication System (1963) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Claude Shannon |
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| Doctoral students | Danny Cohen, Henri Gouraud, James H. Clark, Bui Tuong Phong, Franklin C. Crow, John Warnock |
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He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards.
In 2012 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".[3]
