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Ivan Sutherland
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American computer scientist who created Sketchpad in 1963 as part of his doctoral work at MIT, an interactive graphical program regarded as the founding demonstration of computer graphics and direct manipulation interfaces. He received the 1988 Turing Award.
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Ivan Sutherland's 1963 Sketchpad program, built for his MIT PhD thesis, is widely credited as the origin of interactive computer graphics and demonstrated the first graphical user interface.
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Sketchpad was an innovative program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers.
1. Wikipedia: Ivan Sutherland
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Ivan Edward Sutherland, born May 16, 1938, Hastings, Nebraska, U.S.
1. Wikipedia: Ivan Sutherland
1. Wikipedia: Ivan Sutherland
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Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers
Wikipedia: Alan Kay
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Kay credits Sutherland's 1963 thesis for influencing his views on objects and computer programming.
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