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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