Timeline for Peter Deutsch By shenghou Aug 7, 1946 birth Period: Aug 7, 1946 to 2011 A Life Travel of L. Peter Deutsch Magic life, starting as a hacker and settling in musician. 1957 starting programming 1958 Debut: entering MIT Model Railroad club https://vimeo.com/50444911 1961 creating the first interactive Lisp interpreter 1963 completing Basic PDP-1 LISP 1964 implementing the landmark TracLanguage on a PDP-10 1967 finishing Berkeley Timesharing System 1973 receving Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley Aug 11, 1988 writing "Ghostscript" 1994 becoming Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery 2002 quiting work on Ghostscript in order to study musical composition Sep 12, 2007 changing his legal first name from "Laurence" to "L" 2009 auditing undergraduate music courses at Stanford University 2009 postgraduate music program at California State University, East Bay 2011 Master of Arts (M.A.) 2011 performing six compositions performed on public concerts