A leader in the computer graphics field since 1968, Evans & Sutherland develops and manufactures hardware and software for highly realistic visual systems that produce vivid 3D graphics and synthetic environments. Evans & Sutherland's product offerings include a full range of high-performance visual systems for simulation, training, and virtual reality applications, as well as graphics accelerator products for workstations and personal computers. E&S is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, on a 36-acre campus in the University of Utah Research Park. E&S also has offices in Boston, MA; Orlando, FL; Beijing, China; Horsham, England; Munich, Germany; and Tokyo, Japan.

Founded 1968, by Drs. David C. Evans and Ivan E. Sutherland
Headquarters Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Web Site http://www.es.com
President and CEO James R. Oyler
Vice President and CFO William Thomas
Financing E&S became a publicly owned company in 1978.
Common stock is traded under the NASDAQ symbol ESCC.
Revenues Fiscal 2001 revenues were $145.3 M
Employees 650 worldwide

BUSINESS UNITS

Evans & Sutherland is organized into three business units serving a worldwide customer base:

• Simulation Systems ¾ develops and provides visual systems for flight and ground training and related services to U.S. and international armed forces, NASA, and aerospace companies.
• Commercial Simulation¾The world's leading independent supplier of visual systems for flight simulators for commercial airline pilot training.
• Digital Theater¾ develops and manufactures the world's leading digital planetarium projection system, as well as virtual reality experiences for location-based entertainment centers, including entertainment simulators such as Virtual Glider.

Evans & Sutherland provides a broad line of visual system products and related services for use in simulators and trainers for military, commercial, and entertainment applications. E&S's visual systems create dynamic, high-quality, out-the-window scenes that represent the view vehicle operators see when performing tasks under actual operating conditions. The company's visual systems are an integral part of full mission simulators, which incorporate a number of other components, including cockpits or vehicle cabs and large hydraulic motion systems.

Evans & Sutherland's visual systems are made up of image generators, synthetic environments, and display systems. In addition to hardware and software, E&S also offers image database development and development tools, integration, installation, and support services. E&S new product are based on its Universal 3D Architecture.

Building upon its 28 years of graphics expertise, E&S has created a family of products that meets the needs of developers and users of highly realistic synthetic environments. At the core is an open structure based on Intel architecture, with front end computation controlled by the Windows NT operating system. This product strategy easily scales with technology improvements and supports widely available software.

Industry standard technologies used in the E&S Universal 3D Architecture include:

• Windows NT: The operating system for hosting modeling software and tools, as well as administrative and control functions in the new E&S products.
• Intel Pentium Pro: The leading processor in most NT workstations is also used for geometry processing in E&S's new image generators. Future generations of E&S products will track the performance improvements of Intel processors, increasing at the fastest rate in the industry.
• OpenGL: Image database elements are rendered through the OpenGL graphics library and Applications Programming Interface (API). However, new E&S products are structured in a completely modular fashion to allow future use of Direct3D or other graphics API's as they become accepted for professional applications.

Worldwide customers using E&S products include most major airlines, U.S. and international armed forces, NASA, aerospace companies, film and video studios, national laboratories, museums, planetariums, science centers, location-based entertainment centers, and pharmaceutical companies. E&S also provides graphic accelerator products to Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, and Mitsubishi.