BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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University of Utah
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University of Calafornia
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Harvard University
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MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Detailed explanation-1: -The University of Utah established one of the pioneer, and certainly one of the most influential computer graphics programs in the country when they asked David Evans (who joined Utah in 1965) to establish a program that could advance the state of the art in this new field in 1968.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1965, the University of Utah recruited Evans to establish a state of the art computer science program.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first computer graphics design system was developed by Evan Sutherland as his PhD thesis at MIT in 1963. It was called Sketchpad and allowed a user to sketch a mechanical part on a computer screen, place constraints on the part, and have the computer calculate the exact design of the part.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the late 1960s, a few people in Utah had big ideas about how to make computers more usable, especially with graphics. Then in 1969, the University of Utah became the fourth node connected to ARPANET, the first version of the Internet.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1960s William Fetter used computer graphics to create cockpit drawing. He along with Verne Hudson did research on computer graphics.