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Also known as Ivan Edward Sutherland, Ivan E. Sutherland

American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

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Gender
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Origin
Australia
Active from
1926-11-07
Active to
2010-10-10
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Born
Ivan Edward Sutherland , ( 1938-05-16 ) May 16, 1938 (age 88) , Hastings , Nebraska, U.S.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University ( BS ) California Institute of Technology ( MS ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
Known for
Father of computer graphics , Direct linear transformation , Interactive computing , Sketchpad , Zooming user interface , Cohen–Sutherland algorithm , Sutherland–Hodgman algorithm , Logical effort
Spouse
Marly Roncken ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 ) ​
Awards
Turing Award (1988) Computer Pioneer Award (1985) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998) ACM Fellow (1994) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1978) Kyoto Prize
Fields
Computer science , Internet , Computer graphics
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)
Thesis
Sketchpad, a Man–Machine Graphical Communication System (1963)
Doctoral advisor
Claude Shannon
Doctoral students
Danny Cohen Henri Gouraud James H. Clark Bui Tuong Phong Franklin C. Crow John Warnock

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date of birth
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Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field. Sutherland, Evans, and their students from that era developed several foundations of modern computer graphics. He received the 1988 ACM Turing Award for the invention of the Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers, and his contributions to computer graphics. 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".

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