Peter deutsch

L. Peter Deutsch

By rogEvo
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    Life

    Peter Deutsch was born in Boston, Ma.

  • First Exposure

    His father brought home a memo about programming of design calculations for the Cambridge Electron Accelerator at Harvard at age 11
  • MIT

    MIT

    Started working with the TX-0 at MIT at age 12
  • PDP-1

    PDP-1

    Wrote the first REPL shell environment and a LISP implementation for the PDP-1 at MIT at age 17.
  • Project Genie

    Project Genie

    Designed the majority of the OS kernel for Berkeley Timesharing System on the SDS 940
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    UC Berkeley

    Studies for Computer Science at UC Berkeley

  • Xerox PARC

    While working at Xerox PARC he worked on the interlisp system which was a programming environment for the LISP language
  • Xerox PARC

    Xerox PARC

    While working at Xerox PARC and worked on designing Smalltalk which is a OOP programming language

  • Ph.D.

    Received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley
  • Ghostscript created

    Ghostscript created

    Created the rendering software Ghostscript which was used for rendering documents like PDFs

  • Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award

    Received the Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award for his work on Interlisp

  • Wrote the fallacies of distributed computing

    Published the fallacies of distributed computing which outlined false assumptions that new programmers made when first working on distributed computing.

  • ACM

    Was inducted as a fellow for the Association for Computing Machinery

  • Stepping away

    Stepped away from the computer industry to study music composition

  • M.A.

    Received an M.A. in music composition from CSU Hayward