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L. Peter Deutsch

By joeyandreini

  • Born Laurence Peter Deutsch

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    L. Peter Deutsch

  • Started Programming

  • Wrote the PDP-1 Lisp 1.5 implementation

  • Started attending U.C. Berkley

    Started attending U.C. Berkley

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

  • Original author of Ghostscript

    Original author of Ghostscript

  • Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award

    Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award

  • Fellow of the ACM

  • Fallacies of Distributed Computing

  • Deutsch quit work on Ghostscript in order to study musical composition

  • Deutsch changed his legal first name from "Laurence" to "L"

  • Postgraduate music program at California State University, East Bay,

    Postgraduate music program at California State University, East Bay,

  • Master of Arts (M.A.)