- Born
- Ivan Edward Sutherland , ( 1938-05-16 ) May 16, 1938 (age 88) , Hastings , Nebraska, U.S.
- Education
- Carnegie Mellon University ( BS ) California Institute of Technology ( MS ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
- Known for
- Father of computer graphics , Direct linear transformation , Interactive computing , Sketchpad , Zooming user interface , Cohen–Sutherland algorithm , Sutherland–Hodgman algorithm , Logical effort
- Spouse
- Marly Roncken ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
- Awards
- Turing Award (1988) Computer Pioneer Award (1985) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998) ACM Fellow (1994) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1978) Kyoto Prize
- Fields
- Computer science , Internet , Computer graphics
- Institutions
- Harvard University , University of Utah , Evans and Sutherland , California Institute of Technology , Carnegie Mellon University , Sun Microsystems , Portland State University , Advanced Research Projects Agency (1964–1966)
- Thesis
- Sketchpad, a Man–Machine Graphical Communication System (1963)
- Doctoral advisor
- Claude Shannon
- Doctoral students
- Danny Cohen Henri Gouraud James H. Clark Bui Tuong Phong Franklin C. Crow John Warnock