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A 1966 demo of his pioneering Ph.D. work on interactive visual programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLyIYmPfCps.

His Ph.D. dissertation is here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/13474. 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1bNR4DmhU ("Mom Loved Him Best: Bert & Ivan Sutherland").

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