SKETCHPAD

Sketchpad

Sketchpad 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, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012. It pioneered the way for human–computer interaction . Sketchpad is considered to be the ancestor of modern computer-aided drafting programs as well as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. For example, the graphical user interface was derived from the Sketchpad as well as modern object oriented programming. Ivan Sutherland demonstrated with it that computer graphics could be used for both artistic and technical purposes in addition to ...

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sketch pad

Noun

  1. a book or pad with blank pages for sketching; a sketchbook


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