Sketchpad

...sharing classes with Fred Parke, James H. Clark, John Warnock and Alan Kay. Catmull saw Sutherland's computer drawing program Sketchpad and the new field of computer graphics in general as a major fundament in the future of animation,...

In this article: Edwin Catmull, Pixar, Academy Awards, Disney, Lucasfilm, University of Utah, George Lucas, and RenderMan

...reality urbanware.))) Concepts which never before had any visual representation can be shown, for example the "constraints" in Sketchpad [2]. By working with such displays of mathematical phenomena we can learn to know them as well...

In this article: RAND Corporation, Ivan Sutherland, Washington, D.C, Electric field, Degrees of freedom, Wired.com, and Vannevar Bush

...have had the opportunity to use T-Square although Samson has said the group drew some schematics. Ivan Sutherland demonstrating Sketchpad (UVC via IA: and ) CAD by Alex Sandri <br class="clear:both" /> Students of Jack Dennis and...

In this article: Peter Samson, Ivan Sutherland, Alan Kotok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spacewar!, and Tennis for Two

Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman) was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988. It helped change the way people interact with...

In this article: Ivan Sutherland, MIT, Turing Award, SRI, Vannevar Bush, ARC, Peter Samson, and Douglas Engelbart

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, September 2, 2009 3:47 PM | permalink Amazing demo of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad computer design program, which he developed in the early 1960s. "John, we're going to show you a man actually talking to a...

In this article: Ivan Sutherland, Computer museum, and Boston

After visiting the University of Utah and seeing the potential of the computer technology there, such as the computer program named Sketchpad created by Ivan Sutherland, he told his people to get him one of everything they had in the...

In this article: The Works, New York Institute of Technology, Ivan Sutherland, Lucasfilm, Walt Disney, Lance Williams, and George Lucas

...times before during this series: Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad, "released" in 1963. Regular readers will already know what Sketchpad was; Sketchpad was a sketching program, running on a Lincoln TX-2, and it allowed its users to draw various...

In this article: Xerox Star, Apple, Smalltalk, QuickDraw, PARC, Douglas Engelbart, GUI, and Ivan Sutherland

...wasn't needed, since the people operating these computers were fully educated in how these machines worked. Sketchpad changed this. Sketchpad was a drawing program (some even call it the father of all CAD programs) that didn't require...

In this article: PARC, Xerox Alto, RISC OS, Mac OS, Xerox, Mac OS X, and Ivan Sutherland

...faculty was Ivan Sutherland, who for his doctoral thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had developed a system called Sketchpad, that allowed users to sketch black-and-white engineering drawing with a light pen and a computer...

In this article: Ed Catmull, Henri Gouraud, University of Utah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ivan Sutherland, and Disney

...software was extremely tedious, the interface limited to writing instructions on punched cards. Ivan Sutherland's revolutionary Sketchpad was the first graphical user interface, pioneering the fields of interactive computing,...

In this article: Apple, PARC, Xerox Star, Xerox, Atari, YouTube, Twitter, Microsoft, and Ustream