Ivan Sutherland
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Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics, as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that su
Sutherland in 2008
Claude Shannon
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man wh
Ivan Sutherland
…Technology, his master's degree from Caltech, and his Ph.D. from MIT in electrical engineering in 1963. Sutherland invented Sketchpad in 1962 while at MIT. Claude Shannon signed on to supervise Sutherland's computer drawing thesis. Among others on his thesis committee were Marvin Minsky and Steven Coons. Sketchpad was…
Shannon c. 1950s
Theseus Maze in MIT Museum
The Minivac 601, a digital computer trainer designed by Shannon
Statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs