What is Bert Sutherland?
[[File:Bert Sutherland 2009.jpg|thumb|200px|Sutherland in 2009]] '''William Robert Sutherland''' (May 10, 1936 – February 18, 2020) was an [[Americans|American]] [[computer scientist]]. He served as manager of three notable research [[laboratories]]: [[Sun Microsystems]] Laboratories (1992–1998), the Systems Science Laboratory at [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]] (1975–1981) and the Computer Science Division of [[BBN Technologies|Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.]] which helped develop the [[ARPANET]]. In these roles, Sutherland took part in the creation of the [[personal computer]], the technology of advanced [[microprocessor]]s, the [[Smalltalk]] programming language, the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]] and the [[Internet]]. Sutherland was born in [[Hastings, Nebraska]]. His father was from [[New Zealand]] and his mother was [[Scottish people|Scottish]]. Sutherland served in the [[United States Navy]]. He was the older brother of [[Ivan Sutherland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm|title=Ivan Sutherland|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=February 22, 2020}}</ref> On February 18, 2020, Sutherland died in [[Mountain View, California]] at the age of 83. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutherland, Bert}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:Scientists from Nebraska]] {{US-bio-stub}}