"Ivan Sutherland, a pioneer in computer graphics now working at Portland State University, has won this year’s Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, an annual award from a Japanese foundation that recognizes significant technical, scientific and artistic contributions to the “betterment of mankind.”
The award — which comes with a gold medal and a cash prize worth more than $600,000 – honors Sutherland for nearly five decades of work demonstrating that computer graphics could be used “for both technical and artistic purposes.”
The Inamori Foundation, which awards the Kyoto Prize, credited Sutherland for developing Sketchpad, a 1963 computer program that could take rough sketches and use them to generate accurate drawings.
“It was a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics, and later served as the foundation of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) most commonly associated today with computers, video games, smartphones and more,” the foundation said." Source Professor Navab gave an invited lecture within the workshop organized to honor Prof. Sutherland on November 12 in Kyoto.
In 1968 Ivan Sutherland builds the first functional head mounted display. Watch the video here:
Ivan Sutherland, a pioneer in computer graphics now working at Portland State University, has won this year’s Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, an annual award from a Japanese foundation that recognizes significant technical, scientific and artistic contributions to the 'betterment of mankind.' Professor Navab gave an invited lecture within the workshop organized to honor Prof. Sutherland on November 12 in Kyoto.
