L Peter Deutsch or Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch) is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and Pdf interpreter.
Deutsch's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation that, among other innovations, inspired Java just-in-time technology 15 or-so years later. He also wrote the PDP-1 Lisp 1.5 implementation, Basic PDP-1 LISP, "while still in short pants" between the age of 12-15 years old.
He is also the author of a number of RFCs, and the The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing.
Deutsch received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973[1]. He has done stints at Xerox PARC and Sun Microsystems. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Deutsch changed his legal first name from Laurence to L on September 12, 2007[2]. His published work and other public references before that time generally use the name L. Peter Deutsch (with a dot after the L).
References
- ^ Deutsch, Laurence Peter (June 1973). An interactive program verifier. University of California, Berkeley.
- ^ San Mateo Superior Court, CIV464587 Actions, accessed on-line December 3, 2008.
External links
- RFCs authored or co-authored by L. Peter Deutsch: RFC 190, RFC 446, RFC 550, RFC 567, RFC 606, RFC 1950, RFC 1951 and RFC 1952
- L. Peter Deutsch in conversation with Stig Hackvän
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