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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

              Sun Scientist Honored with Prestigious Award

SunFLASH Vol 65 #22					            May 1994
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65.22	Sun Scientist Honored with Prestigious Award

	Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation today announced that Dr.
	Ivan Sutherland, vice president and Sun Fellow in Sun
	Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., has been awarded the 1993
	System Software Award by the Association for Computing
	Machinery (ACM). The ACM presents this award annually in
	recognition of work done by individuals or institutions in the
	"development of a software system that has had a lasting
	influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in
	commercial acceptance, or both."

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Dr. Sutherland received the ACM award for his work on the Sketchpad
System, which demonstrated key innovations in user interfaces and
computer graphics, including direct manipulation techniques, constraint
maintenance, rubber-band lines, sticky points, and clipping.

Dr. Sutherland is a pioneer in computer graphics. Before joining Sun in
1990, he founded several consulting firms and was an associate
professor of computer science at Harvard University, and head of the
department of computer science at California Institute of Technology.
He is the co-founder of the Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp., a
company that manufacturers high performance computer graphics
workstations.  Dr. Sutherland is a member of both the National Academy
of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and continues to
serve as a consultant to the Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA),
and on the Telecommunications and Computer Science committee of the
National Research Council. He is also considered by many to be the
creator of the concept of virtual reality.

Founded in 1947, the ACM is the oldest and largest educational and
scientific computing society.  It is a not-for-profit association with
over 85,000 members worldwide, dedicated to promoting the practice and
understanding of computer science to the public.  Its membership ranks
include computer scientists and researchers, software developers,
teachers, and applications specialists.

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC), the world's top supplier
of open network computing solutions, is an operating company of Sun
Microsystems, Inc.  Built on Sun's legacy of "The Network is the
Computer," SMCC's SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) workstation and server family
leads the UNIX market. The company has its headquarters in Mountain
View, Calif.