Ivan E. Sutherland

(1938- ) born in Hastings, Adams County. Electrical engineer, pioneered the development of computer graphics, contributed to the study of interfaces between man and machines, researched robots that walk and built a 6-legged hydraulic walking machine featured on cover of Scientific American (January 1983); recipient of a dozen honors and awards, elected to National Academy of Engineering in 1973 and National Academy of Sciences in 1978. Consult Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Engineers and Inventors (Blond Educational, 1985) 136 and Communication of AMC, Vol 32 (June 1989) 711-718 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 6 (2003) 1078.

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