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L. Peter Deutsch

Also Known As Laurence Deutsch · Laurence Peter Deutsch · P. Deutsch · L.P. Deutsch · Peter Deutsch
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L. Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch on August 7, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American computer scientist and composer. He is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and PDF interpreter. His other work includes the Smalltalk implementation that inspired Java just-in-time compilation technology about fifteen years later.

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Birth Year
1946 1
Birth Date
1946-08-07 1
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1. L. Peter Deutsch (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Laurence Deutsch
    Laurence Deutsch
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Software System Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Software System Award.
  • Wikidata alias: Laurence Peter Deutsch
    Laurence Peter Deutsch
  • Wikidata alias: P. Deutsch
    P. Deutsch
  • Wikidata alias: L.P. Deutsch
    L.P. Deutsch
  • Wikidata alias: Peter Deutsch
    Peter Deutsch
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1946
    1946
  • P569 (date of birth): 1946-08-07
    1946-08-07
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