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Ivan Sutherland

1938 - Today

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Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, 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 subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field. Sutherland, Evans, and their students from that era developed several foundations of modern computer graphics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Sutherland has received more than 554,963 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Sutherland is the 31st most popular computer scientist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 2,230th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,516th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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  • 550k

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  • 56.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Ivan Sutherland ranks 31 out of 201. Before him are Satoshi Nakamoto, Ward Cunningham, Jef Raskin, Leonard Kleinrock, Kevin Mitnick, and Tony Hoare. After him are Barbara Liskov, J. C. R. Licklider, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Peter Naur, Ken Kutaragi, and Maurice Wilkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Ivan Sutherland ranks 122. Before him are Heino, Robert Smithson, Wu Yi, David Baltimore, Mamadou Tandja, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. After him are Amfilohije Radović, Oleg Gordievsky, Marien Ngouabi, Nabih Berri, Anne Perry, and Seishiro Shimatani.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ivan Sutherland ranks 2,230 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Plutchik (1927), Paul Bowles (1910), Alicia Rhett (1915), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Clark Ashton Smith (1893), and Robert Todd Lincoln (1843). After him are Ricky Nelson (1940), Richard Sennett (1943), Chet Atkins (1924), Eva Longoria (1975), James Newton Howard (1951), and Russ Meyer (1922).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Ivan Sutherland ranks 20. Before him are Alan Kay (1940), John Backus (1924), Ward Cunningham (1949), Jef Raskin (1943), Leonard Kleinrock (1934), and Kevin Mitnick (1963). After him are Barbara Liskov (1939), J. C. R. Licklider (1915), Nolan Bushnell (1943), Allen Newell (1927), Jack Dorsey (1976), and Frances E. Allen (1932).

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