Machine Thinking » retro-future http://machinethinking.org art. design. architecture. machines. Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:42:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Alan Kay presenting Ivan Sutherland’s 1963′s Sketchpad http://machinethinking.org/2008/09/14/alan-kay-presenting-ivan-sutherlands-1963s-sketchpad/ http://machinethinking.org/2008/09/14/alan-kay-presenting-ivan-sutherlands-1963s-sketchpad/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:19:22 +0000 William http://machinethinking.org/?p=161


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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