Sketchpad
Sign in to saveSketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012. It pioneered human–computer interaction (HCI), and is considered the ancestor of modern computer-aided design (CAD) programs and as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. For example, Sketchpad inspired the graphical user interface (GUI) and object-oriented programming. Using the program, Sutherland showed that computer graphics could be used for both artistic a
Key facts
- Software.name
- Sketchpad
- Software.screenshot
- Sketchpad-Apple.jpg
- Software.caption
- Ivan Sutherland demonstrating Sketchpad (UVC via IA: video and thumbnails)
- Software.author
- Ivan Sutherland
- Software.developer
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Software.programming language
- TX-2 assembly language
- Software.operating system
- none
- Software.platform
- Lincoln TX-2
- Software.language
- English
- Software.genre
- animation, drawing, drafting, CAD
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- vector graphics editor
- Creator
- Ivan Sutherland
- Developer
- Ivan Sutherland
- Image
- SketchpadDissertation-Fig4-1.tif
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- start time
- 1962-06-00
- input device
- graphical user interface
- Commons category
- Sketchpad
- inception
- 1963-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012. It pioneered human–computer interaction (HCI), and is considered the ancestor of modern computer-aided design (CAD) programs and as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. For example, Sketchpad inspired the graphical user interface (GUI) and object-oriented programming. Using the program, Sutherland showed that computer graphics could be used for both artistic and technical purposes and for demonstrating a novel method of human–computer interaction.
== History == See History of the graphical user interface for a more detailed discussion of GUI development.
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