Architectural CAD program of 1963

46 years ago, for her doctoral thesis, Ivan Sutherland developed Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman), she helped change the way people interact with computers and laid the foundation for creating a custom graphical user interface.

Sketchpad is considered the ancestor of modern CAD programs and a major breakthrough in computer graphics in general. The user graphical interface has been developed to the current state from this program, as well as modern object-oriented programming.
Sketchpad was first launched on the Lincoln TX-2 computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1988, for creating the Sketchpad program, Ivan Sutherland won the Turing Award .
Work in Sketchpad occurs with the help of a light pen on the XY coordinate CRT plotter display, watch the video:



The foundations laid half a century ago today are successfully implemented in Microsoft Surface for entertainment and multimedia, it is hoped that CAD will not stand aside.
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