Ivan Sutherland

Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering

contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened

the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull,

on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtualreality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland,

which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators

now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of

Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an

acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the

boards of several small companies and is a member of the

National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of

Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's

Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow

of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.

(1994-11-16)