Ivan E. Sutherland
About Ivan E. Sutherland
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University, Visiting Scientist
- Sutherland, Vice-president
- Location
- United States of America
- Bio
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 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. 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”. – wikipedia
- Awards and Recognition
- SIGGRAPH 1983 Steven Anson Coons Award: Sutherland
- ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Member, inducted in 2018
Conference Contributions
- Presentations
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- Sessions Moderated
- “VR @ 50: Celebrating Ivan Sutherland’s 1968 Head-Mounted 3D Display System”
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