Ivan Sutherland : Sketchpad Demo (1/2)

This video is a TV show made about the software Ivan Sutherland developed in his 1963 thesis at MIT's Lincoln Labs, "Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System", described as one of the most influential computer programs ever written. This work was seminal in Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), Computer Aided Design (CAD), and contraint/object-oriented programming. While watching this video, remember that the TX-2 computer (built circa 1958) on which the software ran was built from discrete transistors (not integrated circuits -it was room-sized) and contained just 64K of 36-bit words (~272k bytes).

(1/2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA
(2/2) http://youtube.com/watch?v=BKM3CmRqK2o

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[kinmanyuen]

ooooomg.... 1962/1963 !!!

I just can't believe it! Way cooler than going to the moon!

[elbethere]

The Beginings of GUI, and of paint program

[rhall4th]

These videos are fascinating. This one and the other one where he interviews Dr. Corby about MIT's new Time Sharing system in 1963.

[alpop850]

Smart board technology, in 1963!

[bioanu]

This force you to think how much we have advanced in technology!.... The technology now must help the planet to survive..

[Rajan Zachariah]

apart from good graphics, it also represents object oriented programming.

[tmlp1118]

doobies



[Truthiness231]

Judging from the comments (and some deeper study of this through Wiki ^.^), this is the birth of a whole plethora of things, from computer displays to touch-interfaces to drawing programs to the basics of early OOP (particularly the first "O" in OOP; the important part). F'ing amazing.

[aboyintheband]

7:24 PACMAN IS BORN

[cSharpIndonesia]

to be continued

[IIARROWS]

In 1963: multi-tasking.

In 2007: apple ignore multi-tasking.

[jbolivar07]

wow ... this is true programming!!!