History of Science & Technology

Ivan Sutherland

Sketchpad, 1963, on Computer Aided Design

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4,000 - 6,000 USD

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2,000 USD

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IVAN E. SUTHERLAND. Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System. Lexington, MA: Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, January 30, 1963. Illustrated. 4to (280 x 215 mm; 11 x 8 7/16 inches). Original printed brown textured wrappers. Wrappers partially faded, ownership stamp to front wrapper (“Architectural Engineering MODCON”).

SIGNED by Sutherland on the title-page.

WITH:

IVAN E. SUTHERLAND. Letter Signed, (“Ivan”), 1p, Portland, OR, February 9, 2014, regarding a meeting to sign the present publication, with original autograph transmittal cover.

THE ORIGIN OF CAD, GUI & OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE.

FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION of “father of computer graphics” Ivan Sutherland’s technical report based on his MIT thesis. It describes his early computer aided design software that utilized a light pen and featured the first graphical user interface (GUI), the first object oriented software and the first non-procedural programming language. Alan Blackwell and Kerry Rodden in their introduction to the 2003 Electronic Edition of Sketchpad point out that it’s “one of the most influential computer programs ever written by an individual, as recognized in his citation for the Turing award in 1988.”

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