William Fetter’s Significance

William Fetter (1928-2002), an art director who worked for Boeing, was a computer graphics pioneer and the first to draw the human figure using a computer (above)

He also Created the term Computer Graphics to describe the work he did at Boeing  

William Fetter fits into the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE’s four categories of: Pioneer, Innovator, Early Adapter, and Follower as an Early Adapter. He was an adapter because he worked as a Art Director for Boeing and while he was there in order to create the interior of a plane he used a computer to accurately map the first human body on a digital interface in the early 60’s.