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Sketchpad

Many of the modern concepts of computer graphics, dynamic objects and object oriented programming were prototyped by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in Sketchpad. Sketchpad was the first program ever to utilize a complete graphical user interface. It helped change the way people interact with computers. Sketchpad is considered to be the ancestor of modern computer-aided drafting (design) (CAD) programs as well as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. Ivan Sutherland demonstrated with it that computer graphics could be utilized for both artistic and technical purposes in addition to showing a novel method of human-computer interaction.

Links

GUIdebook - Graphical User Interface Gallery - Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system - Reprinted from proceedings of the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference, Detroit, Michigan, May 21-23, 1963, pp. 329-346.

Matthias Rauterberg - http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/g.w.m.rauterberg/presentations/HCI-history/sld020.htm - History of HCI - Sketchpad (1963) - Ivan Sutherland - MIT Lab.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad - Sketchpad.

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