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Peter Deutsch

By jamestx79107
  • Birth

    Birth

    Born in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Tech Model Railroad Club

    Tech Model Railroad Club

    Joined the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT and began hacking.
  • PDP-1 LISP

    PDP-1 LISP

    Co-authored the PDP-1 Lisp 1.5 implementation while still a 17 year old teenager
  • Project Genie

    Project Genie

    As a sophomore at UC Berkeley, he worked on Project Genie, one of the first minicomputer-based timesharing systems, writing most of the operating system’s kernel.
  • Xerox Parc

    Xerox Parc

    Contributed to the development of the Interlisp system and the Smalltalk virtual machine at Xerox PARC.
  • Graduation

    Graduation

    Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley
  • GhostScript

    GhostScript

    Founded Aladdin Enterprises and created Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) interpreter.
  • Accolades

    Accolades

    Received the ACM Software System Award for his work on Interlisp
  • ACM Fellow

    ACM Fellow

    Elected a Fellow of the ACM
  • Published Work

    Published Work

    Published the famous "Seven Fallacies of Distributed Computing"
  • Retirement

    Retirement

    Shifted focus to musical composition full-time