Sketchpad

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

Sketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a 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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Sketchpad”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Scanned by Kerry Rodden from original photograph by Ivan Sutherland, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.