Ivan Sutherland Creator of Computer Graphics

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Ivan SutherlandCreator of Computer Graphics

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• Education
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  1963
• M.S. EE, California Institute of Technology,
  1960
• B.S. EE, Carnegie Institute of Technology (now
  Carnegie Mellon University), 1959
• Honorary MA, Harvard University, 1966
• Academia Experience
• Professor, Harvard University, 1966
• Professor, University of Utah, 1968
• Chairman of Computer Science Department,
  California Institute of Technology, 1974

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• Professional Experience
• Electrical Engineer and First Lieutenant,
  National Security Agency, 1963
• Researcher, Defense Department's Advanced
  Research Projects Agency, 1964
• Co-Founder, Evans and Sutherland, 1968
• Researcher, RAND Corporation, 1974
• Vice-President and Technical Director,
  Sutherland, Sproull and Associates, 1980
• Vice-President and Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems,
  1990
• Computerworld Smithsonian Award, 1996
• AM Turing Award, Association for Computing
  Machinery, 1988
• First Zworykin Award, National Academy of
  Engineering, 1972
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, since 1978
• Member, National Academy of Engineering, since
  1973
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
  Engineers (IEEE)
•  Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery

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Evans Sutherland Inc.

• 3-D computer modeling and visual simulations
• The basis for computer graphics
• Computer aided design (CAD)
• Interactive pilot training simulators widely used
  in military and commercial aviation.

Dave Evans, his partner at Evans Sutherland and
co-recipient of the award.
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Sketchpad The First Interactive Computer
Graphics

• Ph.D. Thesis, 1963 -- Mass. Institute of
  Technology
• "Sketchpad A Man-machine Graphical
  Communications System."

                                     Ivan
Sutherland at the console of the TX-2 -
Sketchpad Project, MIT, 1963
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Laying the Foundations of Computer Science

• National Security Agency (NSA)
• Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects
  Agency (ARPA, later DARPA)
• -gt Timesharing
• -gt Artificial Intelligence

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Educator and Innovator Harvard, Utah, and
Caltech
"Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving
it away."
"It's not the school, the curriculum, or the
teacher, but motivation that is the single most
important ingredient in learning."

Dr. Ivan Sutherland in the classroom,California
Institute of Technology, 1976
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A head-mounted three-dimensional display
What they called the "Head-Mounted Display,"
later became known as Virtual Reality.
"Remote Reality" vision systems of the Bell
Helicopter project . Turned it into "Virtual
Reality by replacing the camera with computer
images.
Quint Fosterwearing the Head-Mounted
Displaycirca 1967
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The Walking Machine A Six-legged Robot
In the early 1980s at Carnegie Mellon
University. Use the stick of an aircraft for
the Walking Machine's controller. For robots
the size of people, dogs, or horses, two or four
legs is the right number not the six of my
Walking machine."
Java-enabled sequence of images illustrates Ivan
steering the Walking Machine in a 360 degree
turn.
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Some other Profile

• His favorite subject in high school Geometry
• Proudest Accomplishment Four Grandchildren
• Why do I do what I do It's exciting to figure
  out how something works
• What I wanted to be when I grew up An engineer,
  of course!
• Hobbies Motorcycles, Ballroom and Square dancing
  
• Pet Peeve Email from someone with initials that
  I don't recognize, and no name

Ivan Sutherlandon his BMW K100 which is his
favorite car.