Image: Wikimedia Commons

Bert Sutherland

American computer scientist

PersonDied aged 83humanQ4895325

Also known as William R. Sutherland · William Robert Sutherland · W. R. Sutherland

Born: May 10, 1936
Died: February 18, 2020
1
Sources
1.twitter.com/ComputerHistory/status/1230200277141250050
View statement on Wikidata ↗
Birthplace: Hastings
Place of death: Mountain View
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: military officer
Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

William Robert Sutherland was an American computer scientist who was the longtime manager of three prominent research laboratories, including Sun Microsystems Laboratories (1992–1998), the Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC (1975–1981), and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. which helped develop the ARPANET.

Overview

Author of

1 linked to Bert Sutherland in Wikidata

RRFC 31: Binary Message Forms in Computer Networks1968 · request for comments publication

All data

26 statements · 4% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Sex or gender: male
Military branch: United States Navy
Awards: Legionnaire of Legion of Merit
Given name: Bert
Doctoral advisor: Claude Shannon
Family name: Sutherland

On other databases

11 identifiers linking Bert Sutherland across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

externally sourced

Source last edited July 3, 2026. AIDb refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q4895325

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDb. (2026). Bert Sutherland (Q4895325). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/bert-sutherland-Q4895325