Dr. Ivan Sutherland

Ivan is an American computer scientist and computing pioneer. Considered by many to be the creator of computer graphics, he received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. Dr. Sutherland was a co-founder of the pioneering computer graphics company, Evans and Sutherland. He served for many years as a Fellow at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). With the title "Visiting Scientist" Ivan continues to work on advanced computing systems in the newly formed Asynchronous Research Center at Portland State University.  Dr. Sutherland is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and of the National Academy of Sciences.