Timeline for Peter Deutsch

By shenghou

  • birth

  • Period: to

    A Life Travel of L. Peter Deutsch

    Magic life, starting as a hacker and settling in musician.

  • starting programming

  • Debut: entering MIT Model Railroad club

    Debut: entering MIT Model Railroad club
    https://vimeo.com/50444911

  • creating the first interactive Lisp interpreter

  • completing Basic PDP-1 LISP

  • implementing the landmark TracLanguage on a PDP-10

  • finishing Berkeley Timesharing System

  • receving Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley

    receving Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley

  • writing "Ghostscript"

    writing "Ghostscript"

  • becoming Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

    becoming Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

  • quiting work on Ghostscript in order to study musical composition

  • changing his legal first name from "Laurence" to "L"

  • auditing undergraduate music courses at Stanford University

  • postgraduate music program at California State University, East Bay

    postgraduate music program at California State University, East Bay

  • Master of Arts (M.A.)

  • performing six compositions performed on public concerts