Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
	Sutherland in 2008
Born	Ivan Edward Sutherland; May 16, 1938; Hastings, Nebraska, United States
Alma mater	Carnegie Institute of Technology (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
Spouse	Marly Roncken (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;
	Scientific career
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;

Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, 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 the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of the Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards. In 2012, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".

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