Archive for September 14th, 2008

Alan Kay presenting Ivan Sutherland’s 1963’s Sketchpad

Sunday, September 14th, 2008


Alan Kay presenting in 1987 Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad - one of the most influential software programs in the history of user interface design. Entire video here

“I once asked Ivan Sutherland how could you have possibly done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language and first object oriented software system all in one year. He said, ‘Well, I didn’t know it was hard’”

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