Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In these roles, Sutherland participated in the creation of the personal computer, the technology of advanced microprocessors, the Smalltalk programming language, the Java programming language and the Internet. Unlike traditional corporate research managers, Sutherland added individuals from fields like psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology to enhance the work of his technology staff He also directed his scientists to take their research, like the Xerox Alto "personal" computer, outside of the lab to allow people to use it in a corporate setting and to observe their interaction with lieutenant
With Palo Alto Research Center resources made available by Sutherland, Mead and Conway developed a textbook and university syllabus that helped expedite the development and distribution of a technology whose impact is now immeasurable.
Sutherland said that a research lab is primarily a teaching institution, "teaching whatever is new so that the new can become familiar, old, and used widely."
Sutherland received his Bachelor"s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his master"s degree and Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis advisor was Claude Shannon.