Programming with On-Line Graphics

Bill Buxton
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5K views · 15 years ago · demo · intermediate · historical

A 1966 demo of Bert Sutherland's PhD work on programming with on-line graphics, posted by Bill Buxton. It shows programs built and edited as diagrams on an interactive display, an early form of graphical and dataflow-style programming.

HN people share it as a record of pioneering interactive visual programming and point readers to Sutherland's thesis.

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@dang2020 · in “Bert Sutherland Has Died”
A 1966 demo of his pioneering Ph.D. work on interactive visual programming: ▶ this video His Ph.D. dissertation is here: link It was some of the earliest work on dataflow and graphical programming. I know this because Alan Kay told me to read it, so I did. You should too. Edit: Bert, of course, was Ivan Sutherland's (of Sketchpad) older brother. There's a delightful dialogue with the two of them from 2004: link ("Mom Loved Him Best: Bert & Ivan Sutherland").
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