William Robert Sutherland (May 10, 1936 – February 18, 2020) was an American computer scientist. He served as manager of three notable research laboratories: 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. In these roles, Sutherland took part in the creation of the personal computer, the technology of advanced microprocessors, the Smalltalk programming language, the Java programming language and the Internet.