“Without the fun, none of us would go on!”
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Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist, 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 th…
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science · American computer scientist (born 1938) · computer scientist · inventor · programmer · university teacher · engineer · electrical engineer · also Ivan Sutherland, Ivan Edward Sutherland, Ivan E. Sutherland, Sutherland
Born 16 May 1938 · Q62866
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2026· 3 entries
“It's not an idea until you write it down.”
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“The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the existence of matter. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be fatal.”
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Washington Award (2018).
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2016).
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“A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.”
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2012· 3 entries
Computerworld: Computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland wins Kyoto Prize
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Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2012).
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Was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces"
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2006· 2 entries
Ivan Sutherland married Marly Roncken
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On May 28, 2006, Ivan Sutherland married Marly Roncken.
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2003· 1 entry
By University of Cambridge as Technical Report Number 574, Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System
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1998· 1 entry
Won IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998).
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded EFF Award (1994).
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Awarded ACM Fellow (1994).
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Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Pioneer Award, 1994
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Software System Award (1993).
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1990· 1 entry
By Sun Microsystems to form the seed of its research division, Sun Labs
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Turing Award for Sketchpad (1988).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (1985).
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1968· 2 entries
With his students Bob Sproull, Quintin Foster, Danny Cohen, and others he created the first head-mounted display that rendered images for the viewer's changing pose, as sensed by The Sword of Damocles, thus making the fi
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Sutherland co-founded Evans & Sutherland with his friend and colleague David C
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1967· 1 entry
Led to the development of the Cohen–Sutherland computer graphics line clipping algorithm
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-05-16.
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