Sutherland, Ivan

Sutherland received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University ), a master's degree from the California Institute of Technology and a PhD in computer engineering (EECS) from MIT in 1963.

He invented Sketchpad as an innovative program that influenced alternative interfaces for interacting with computers. Sketchpad could accept constraints and define relationships between segments and arcs, such as the diameter of arcs. He could draw horizontal and vertical lines, and combine them into different shapes. They could be copied, moved, rotated or scaled, preserving their basic properties. Scatchpad also first implemented the window drawing algorithm and the trimming algorithm, which allows scaling. Sketchpad worked on the Lincoln TX-2 computer and influenced the development of the oN-Line System .

Sutherland replaced JSL Liclayder as the head of the office of information processing technologies (information processing technology office (IPTO) ) ARPA (now known as DARPA ), when Liklider returned to MIT in 1964. ^{[1] [2]}

From 1965 to 1968, he was Eng. Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University . With the help of his student Bob Sproul, he created what is considered the first helmet of virtual reality and augmented reality in 1968. It was primitive, both in terms of the interface and in realism , and its weight was so heavy that it hung from the ceiling. The virtual environment consisted of simple framed room models . Terrible view of the device gave him the appropriate name - Damocles Sword .

Another of his Harvard students, Danny Cohen , was the first to launch a flight simulation via ARPANet. In 1967, Danny Cohen’s work on a flight simulator led to the development of the Cohen-Sutherland algorithm , which makes it possible to efficiently find the straight line segments inside the rectangle.

From 1968 to 1974, Sutherland was a professor at the University of Utah . His students included Alan Kay , inventor of the Smalltalk language , Henri Gourette , who invented the Gourot toning method , Franklin Crowe , who developed anti - aliasing methods, and Edwin Catmull , co-founder of Pixar and, now, president of the studios Walt Disney and Pixar Animation .

In 1968, he co-founded Evans & Sutherland with his friend and colleague David Evans . The company was a pioneer in the field of hardware to speed up three-dimensional real-time graphics and printer languages. Among the former employees of Evans & Sutherland were the founders of Adobe ( John Warnock ) and Silicon Graphics ( Jim Clark ).

From 1974 to 1978, he worked at the California Institute of Technology , where he was the founder of the Computer Science Department. Then he created the Sutherland Consulting Company , Sproul and Companions , which was then bought by Sun Microsystems , and later the Sun Labs research department was created on its basis.

Dr. Sutherland was the vice president of Sun Microsystems . He was also a visiting scholar in the computer science department at the University of California at Berkeley (from autumn 2005 to spring 2008). Now Dr. Sutherland and Marley Ronken lead research on asynchronous systems at Portland State University , where he formed a group and founded the Asynchronous Research Center ( ARC website ).

He has two children and three grandchildren. May 28, 2006 Ivan Sutherland married Marley Ronken.

Ivan's older brother, Bert Sutherland , is also an eminent computer scientist.

• Computer History Museum Fellow, 2005 ^[3]
• R & D100 , 2004 (team) ^[4]
• Medal of John von Neumann , 1998 ^[5]
• The Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit , 1996
• Association for Computing Machinery Fellow, 1994 ^[6]
• Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Pioneer Award, 1994 ^[7]
• Turing Prize , 1988 ^[8]
• Computerworld Honors Program, Leadership Award, 1987 ^[9]
• Emanuel Pior Award , 1986 ^[10]
• Member, United States National Academy of Sciences , 1978 ^[11]
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA , 1973 ^[12]
• National Academy of Engineering First Zworykin Award, 1972
• Kyoto Prize , 2012 ^[13]

• “A display connected to a computer gives us a chance to get acquainted with ideas that are not implemented in the physical world. This is a mirror to a mathematical wonderland. ”
• “I think that the limit to the development of a display will be a room in which a computer can control the existence of matter. A chair in such a room would fit perfectly for sitting on it. Handcuffs created in such a room will hold down, and a bullet created in such a room will be fatal. ” (1965)
• When Ivan was asked: "How did you manage to create the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object-oriented software system in one year?", He replied: "Well, I did not know that it was difficult."
• "This is not an idea until you write it down."
• “If it weren’t fun, none of us would go on!”

Sutherland has over 60 patents, including:

• US Patent 7,636,361 (2009) Apparatus and method for high-throughput asynchronous communication with flow control
• US Patent 7,417,993 (2008) Apparatus and method for high-throughput asynchronous communication
• US Patent 7,384,804 (2008) Method and apparatus for electronically aligning capacitively coupled mini-bars
• US patent 3,889,107 (1975) System of polygon sorting by dissection
• US patent 3,816,726 (1974) Computer Graphics Clipping System for Polygons
• US Patent 3,732,557 (1973) Incremental Position-Indicating System
• US Patent 3,684,876 (1972) Vector Computing System
• US Patent 3,639,736 (1972) Display Windowing by Clipping

• On Leadership 2006 videotaped talk to SEED mentoring program by Ivan Sutherland (made publicly available in 2010 by Sun Microsystems Laboratories )
• An Evening with Ivan Sutherland at the Computer History Museum on 19-Oct-2005: "Research and Fun" (online video and partial transcript) 2005 blog by Matthias Müller-Prove
• SketchPad , 2004 from "CAD software - history of CAD CAM" by CADAZZ
• Sutherland's 1963 Ph.D. Thesis from Massachusetts Institute of Technology republished in 2003 by the University of Cambridge and the Technical Report Number 574. His thesis supervisor was Claude Shannon , father of information theory .
• Duchess Chips for Process-Specific Wire Capacitance Characterization, The , by Jon Lexau, Jonathan Gainsley, Ann Coulthard and Ivan E. Sutherland, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Report Number TR-2001-100, October 2001
• Essay Series, Perspectives-96-1 (April 1996) Technology & Courage by Ivan Sutherland, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Perspectives
• Biography , "Ivan Sutherland" circa 1996, hosted by the Institute of Technology College of Computing
• Counterflow Pipeline Processor Architecture , John E. Sutherland, Charles E. Molnar ( Charles Molnar ), and Robert F. Sproull ( Bob Sproull ), Sun Microsystems Report Number TR-94-25, April 1994
• 1989 Oral history interview with Ivan Sutherland - Charles Babbage Institute , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Scope of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) from 1963 to 1965. ILLIAC IV, and the Macromodule program.
• CompWisdom's search engine science topic: Ivan Sutherland
• Asynchronous Research Center's Website