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3 unusual facts about Ivan Sutherland


Bendix G-15

He would later become famous for his work in computer graphics and for starting up Evans & Sutherland with Ivan Sutherland.

Ivan Sutherland

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards.

Ivan's elder brother, Bert Sutherland, is also a prominent computer science researcher.


Sketchpad

Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman) was a revolutionary 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.


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