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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
Started working with the TX-0 at MIT at age 12 -
PDP-1
Wrote the first REPL shell environment and a LISP implementation for the PDP-1 at MIT at age 17. -
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
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
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