Awards & Winners

Ivan Sutherland

Date of Birth 16-May-1938
Place of Birth Hastings
(Adams County, Nebraska)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Engineer, Computer Scientist
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards. In 2012 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".

Awards by Ivan Sutherland

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ivan Sutherland.

1988


Turing Award
(For his pioneering and visionary contributions to computer graphics, starting with Sketchpad, and continuing after)