Peter Langston

Current

Coordinator at Puget Sound Guitar Workshop
Director at Northeast Heritage Music Camp
Director at American Banjo Camp

Teacher at California Coast Music Camp

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Past

Teacher at California Coast Music Camp
Attendee at Hacker's Conference
Consultant at PSL Associates

member at A Holy Loop
Consultant at Sun Microsystems
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Segue Software
member & many times head of nominating committee at USENIX Association
Member of technical staff at Bell Communications Research
Attendee, speaker, games organizer at USENIX Association
Agent Provocateur at AT&T Bell Labs
Director of Games Development at Lucasfilm
pre-Founder of LucasArts at LucasArts Entertainment
Consultant at Davis Polk & Wardwell
Dir. of Information Technology at Davis Polk & Wardwell
Systems Analyst at Commercial Union Leasing Corp.
Unix Hanger-on, programmer, analyst at Harvard University
Consultant at Commercial Union Leasing Corp.
Systems Analyst at Harvard University
Consultant at Bilinear Systems
Consultant at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Co-leader at Entropy Service
Faculty/staff at The Evergreen State College
Leader at Portland Zoo Electric Band
Programmer/researcher at National Science Foundation
Computer Centre Director at Reed College

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Reed College

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Peter Langston’s Summary

I have lived a double life -- both as a techno-guru and as a musician/composer/arranger/artist.

Peter Langston’s Specialties:

problem-solving, logical extrapolation, pattern-recognition, humor, and the unexpected

Peter Langston’s Experience

Coordinator

Puget Sound Guitar Workshop

(Education Management industry)

Currently holds this position
Director

Northeast Heritage Music Camp

(Music industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Northeast Heritage Music Camp teaches participants to play for the music and dance cultures of the Northeastern Americas.
Director

American Banjo Camp

(Education Management industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

American Banjo Camp celebrates the 5-string banjo in all its settings, focusing principally on bluegrass 3-finger picking and old-time clawhammer.
Teacher

California Coast Music Camp

(Music industry)

1999 — Present (10 years )
Teacher

California Coast Music Camp

(Education Management industry)

1999 — 2009 (10 years )
Attendee

Hacker's Conference

(Education Management industry)

1990 — 2009 (19 years )
Consultant

PSL Associates

(Computer Software industry)

January 1993 — January 2003 (10 years 1 month)

Consultant specializing in UNIX / NeXTStep / OpenStep software development and in applications involving the arts (especially music & MIDI). Particularly interested in areas that have been overlooked for want of attractive (i.e. short-term) commercial potential.
member

A Holy Loop

(Education Management industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Consultant

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

November 1991 — June 1994 (2 years 8 months)

Consultant to Sun Microsystems and FirstPerson Inc., providing systems software development and design involving audio and MIDI.
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Segue Software

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; SEGU; Computer Software industry)

March 1990 — October 1991 (1 year 8 months)

Project leader at Segue Software (Santa Monica, California). Head of a project to design and build a sound & video editing station based on the NextDimension™ computer.
member & many times head of nominating committee

USENIX Association

(Education Management industry)

1975 — 1991 (16 years )
Member of technical staff

Bell Communications Research

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1984 — March 1990 (5 years 7 months)

A senior researcher in the Software Engineering Research Group, a part of the Mathematics, Communications, and Computer Sciences Research Laboratory.
Attendee, speaker, games organizer

USENIX Association

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1975 — 1990 (15 years )
Agent Provocateur

AT&T Bell Labs

(Education Management industry)

1981 — 1989 (8 years )
Director of Games Development

Lucasfilm

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Entertainment industry)

July 1982 — September 1984 (2 years 3 months)

Founded the group that became LucasArts. Projects ranged from development of video games for both the home and arcade markets to research into the games phenomenon and ways in which it intersects other forms of entertainment (e.g. cinema).
pre-Founder of LucasArts

LucasArts Entertainment

(Education Management industry)

1982 — 1984 (2 years )
Consultant

Davis Polk & Wardwell

(Partnership; 501-1000 employees; Law Practice industry)

July 1982 — July 1983 (1 year 1 month)

The primary goal of this consulting work was to transfer technical information to the staff members who were taking over my responsibilities.
Dir. of Information Technology

Davis Polk & Wardwell

(Partnership; 501-1000 employees; Law Practice industry)

August 1978 — July 1982 (4 years )

Managed and provided in-house expertise for the design, coordination, and implementation of a law office automation system based on the UNIX operating system.
Systems Analyst

Commercial Union Leasing Corp.

(Financial Services industry)

September 1976 — August 1978 (2 years )

Systems analyst at CULC, a New York company involved in leveraged leasing of large assets on an international scale. Responsibilities involved software tools for a ‘‘paperless office’’ system providing capabilities ranging from secretarial functions to complex financial analysis, with an emphasis on making computing attractive and interesting for all office personnel. Other projects included the development of a device-independent graphics metalanguage, creation of several complex computer games, and implementation of a public-key encryption system.
Unix Hanger-on, programmer, analyst

Harvard University

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

1974 — 1977 (3 years )
Consultant

Commercial Union Leasing Corp.

(Financial Services industry)

July 1976 — September 1976 (3 months)

Consultant to Commercial Union Leasing Corp. to develop computer graphics for presentation of financial data and models, and to consider possible financial applications of my international conflict simulation game ‘‘Empire’’ (elements of which were incorporated into programs that model leveraged leasing transactions).
Systems Analyst

Harvard University

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

November 1974 — September 1976 (1 year 11 months)

Systems programmer at Harvard Science Center on the Harvard-Radcliffe student time-share system, a UNIX-based system running on a PDP 11/45 (research Unix version 5). Responsible for the creation and/or modification of many fundamental system modules, (electronic mail, system news, TECO text editor enhancements, BASIC extensions, interactive and simulation games).
Consultant

Bilinear Systems

(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

April 1976 — July 1976 (4 months)

Consultant for Bilinear Systems in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Designed and built computer-controlled audio equipment. Consulted on encryption schemes proposed for bank security systems. Designed audio processing devices using bucket-brigade delay lines. Similar devices are now marketed by numerous companies.
Consultant

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

December 1974 — April 1976 (1 year 5 months)

Analysis of solar data from SKYLAB apparatus for extreme-ultraviolet photometry research. Developed software to manipulate and display the data on a Comtal color video display unit and Gould printer-plotter attached to a PDP 11/10 running RT-11. Images produced by this software have appeared in several technical journals and Scientific American magazine.
Co-leader

Entropy Service

(Music industry)

June 1973 — August 1975 (2 years 3 months)

Co-leader of ‘‘Entropy Service,’’ a music group playing a mixture of jazz, country, ragtime, pop, folk, & classical musics both in the Pacific Northwest (until 9/74) and the Boston-Cambridge area (after 9/74), with a record released in 1974.
Faculty/staff

The Evergreen State College

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1971 — September 1974 (3 years 1 month)

Teaching duties included courses in theory of computing, computer graphics, simulation gaming, machine intelligence, audio recording techniques, and systems analysis. Research included electronic & computer music, creative writing analysis, audio-visual-computer interfaces, analog and digital computer graphics, and hybrid computer simulation. Produced a short, computer-animated movie illustrating the appearance of a four-space object (hypercube) intersecting an arbitrarily positioned three-space.
Leader

Portland Zoo Electric Band

(Music industry)

December 1966 — January 1972 (5 years 2 months)

The Portland Zoo was described in one newspaper article as "The world's most ethnic phantasy-rock band!" Who are we to argue, even if that description is a bit limiting?
Programmer/researcher

National Science Foundation

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

May 1970 — August 1971 (1 year 4 months)

Part of a three-person team under a National Science Foundation grant to design and build the first multi-user, time-shared hybrid computer system. The software, the processor interfaces, and the interactive terminals were designed by the team and built specifically for this project. Main responsibilty: design and implementation of all software, including operating system and an analog/digital programming language.
Computer Centre Director

Reed College

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

July 1968 — June 1970 (2 years )

System was based on IBM 1130 and 1620 computers and unit-record equipment. Responsibilities included handling of student accounts, system support programming, facilities utilization, and modification and maintenance of operating systems. Contributed to a book on IBM 1130 Assembler and FORTRAN programming published by Addison-Wesley (Bork, A.M. Using the IBM 1130, 1968).