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L. Peter Deutsch

Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1

Date of birth: 1946 edit

Current residence: edit

Important software L. Peter Deutsch has worked on:

Timeline:

Year Event
1946 Born
1958 Father brings home a Univac programming manual
1964 Gets involved in Project Genie; meets Butler Lampson
1964 Enters UC Berkeley as undergraduate
1964 Paper on PDP-1 Lisp published
1968 Berkeley Computer Corporation founded
1970 Berkeley Computer Corporation shuttered--moves to Xerox PARC
1973 Received Ph. D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley
1984 "Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System" published
1986 Leaves Xerox PARC; goes to ParcPlace
1991 Leaves ParcPlace; goes to Sun
1992 Wins ACM Software System Award for work on Interlisp
1994 Leaves Sun to found Aladdin
1994 Wrote "The Seven Fallacies of Distributed Computing" (later extended to 8 by James Gosling)
1994 Inducted as Fellow of the ACM

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