Ivan Sutherland- Birth-1938, Death-Still Alive
Academic Events- George Westinghouse Scholar (1955-1959); American Institute of Electrical Engineers Student Prize Paper Contest for District 2 Winner (1958, 1959); National Science Foundation Fellowship (1959 – 1962); National Academy of Engineering First Zworykin Award (1972); Member, National Academy of Engineering (1973); Member, National Academy of Sciences (1978); IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1986); Computerworld Honors Program, Leadership Award (1987); ACM Turing Award (1988); ACM Software System Award (1993); Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Pioneer Award (1994); Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (1994); Price Waterhouse Information Technology Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement (1996); Computerworld Smithsonian Award (1996); the Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit (1996); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998); R&D 100 Award (team) (2004); Computer History Museum Fellow (2005); Kyoto Prize (2012).
He studied many degrees at many universities.
Major contributions to Computer Science- In 1963, Ivan Sutherland engineered a revolution in computer graphics with his highly-interactive program Sketchpad. He is known as the father of computer graphics, with his student Bob created the very first virtual reality headset. Ivan Sutherland was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and served as an electrical engineer in the National Security Agency (1963) and then as a researcher at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (1964), where he initiated projects in time-sharing systems and artificial intelligence.
Interesting fact- For a 12th-grade science fair project, he made a magnetic drum memory with 128 2-bit words.
