Ivan Sutherland
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American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
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Ivan Sutherland is indexed among the 79 entries in Vinony's Turing Award collection. It also appears in National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Within Vinony's link graph, Ivan Sutherland is referenced by 228 other articles, and connects out to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
It sits within the topics 1938 births, 20th-century American engineers and 20th-century American scientists.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- 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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ivan
- Family name
- Sutherland
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hastings
- Occupation
- engineer
- Employer
- University of Utah
- Award
- Washington Award
- Doctoral advisor
- Claude Shannon
- Doctoral student
- John Warnock
- Field of work
- computer graphics
- Image
- Ivan Sutherland at CHM.jpg
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- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons category
- Ivan Sutherland
- date of birth
- 1938-05-16
- Erdős number
- 6
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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