
Marvin Minsky (father of Artificial Intelligence) Steven Coons (pioneer in graphics, especially interactive graphics) The ‘Ultimate Machine’Ħ Lincoln Lab (est. Sketchpad A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System - Ivan Sutherlandģ Childhood Born in 1938 Father a civil engineer, Mother a teacherĪ friend of the family, Edmund Berkeley (co-founder of the ACM), lent the family a computer in 1950 Computer called SIMON – a toy computer meant to introduce children to the concept SIMON had 2-bits worth of memory, so not suitable for computations Wrote book in 1949, Giant Brains: or Machines that Think 12th grade science-fair project: Sutherland, Ivan E., An Electro-Mechanical Model of Simple Animals,” Computers and Automation, February, 1958 Published in Edmund Berkeley’s magazine, the first on computersĥ Thesis Advisers Claude Shannon (father of Information Theory) (1995), Sutherlands introduction of the Sketchpad in the early 1960s was the 'big bang of computer graphics' (Negroponte 1995: 103). The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings, and opens up a new area of man-machine communication. The sketchpad uses a revolutionary concept, using light pen to. Ivan Sutherland United States 1988 CITATION For his pioneering and visionary contributions to computer graphics, starting with Sketchpad, and continuing after.

Presentation on theme: "A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System - Ivan Sutherland"- Presentation transcript:ġ A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System - Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad (1963) is a computer program developed by Ivan Sutherland for his PhD thesis.
