The profile page that the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California keeps for Bert Sutherland, a computer research laboratory manager who led research groups at BBN, Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems. The page carries a short summary written by the museum: that he retired from Sun Microsystems in 2000 after nearly a decade as Director of Sun Labs, that he earlier managed computer research laboratories at PARC and BBN after a few technical years at MIT Lincoln Lab, and that he was a United States Navy carrier aviator chasing submarines during the cold war. It is used here for the date of his retirement from Sun and the length of his time as director.
Facts
PublisherComputer History Museum
Urlhttps://computerhistory.org/profile/bert-sutherland/
Source TypeBiography
Reliability Tier2
Tier two because the Computer History Museum is a curated museum and archive of computing history and the page is its own profile of a figure in its collection; it is a secondary biographical summary, not a primary record. Credibility NotesA short museum profile summary. It gives the retirement year and the length of the directorship in general terms (nearly a decade) and gives no start or end year for the directorship, so it does not by itself settle the 1992 to 1998 dates in the English Wikipedia article. Read 2026-10-10.
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Bert Sutherland, Computer History Museum profile
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