David C. Evans

David C. Evans ( born February 24, 1924 in Salt Lake City; † 3 October 1998) was an American computer scientist, founder of the computer science faculty at the University of Utah and with Ivan Sutherland co-founder of the software company Evans & Sutherland, the deals with computer graphics applications for science, industry and the military, especially simulators.

Evans studied electrical engineering at the University of Utah and received his doctorate there in physics. He was project manager at Bendix Aviation Electronics Company for the development of small computer, introduced in 1955 G 15 and G 20 ( 1961). In the early 1960s he moved to the University of California, Berkeley. Here he developed an early multi-user time-sharing system ( Project Genie, 1963), the first commercial TS system (SDS 940 of Xerox Corporation in the mid- 1960s) led. Here also began his employment with computer graphics and he developed the concept of virtual memory. At Berkeley, Butler Lampson and L. Peter were German and some of his students he met there also first Ivan Sutherland, with whom he at the University of Utah cooperated closely later. In 1965 he went to the University of Utah, where he built the computer science faculty and in 1968 Ivan Sutherland caught up. Together they founded the same year Evans and Sutherland. At the University of Utah both conducted the research in computer graphics and gathered a number of students, the breakthroughs in this field was achieved ( Bùi Tường Phong, Henri Gouraud, later, James F. Blinn ) made ​​and partly later spectacular careers in the computer industry ( James H. Clark, Alan Kay, John Warnock, Alan Ashton, Edwin Catmull ). In 1994, he went at Evans and Sutherland in retirement.

For his life's work he received the 1996 Computerworld Smithsonian Award.

Evans was married to Joy Evans and had ten children. He was a Mormon and had high positions in their ecclesiastical organization.