Peter Langston Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

The band that never dies!

Seattle, WA

Seattle, WA

It's a secret.

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

Grass Valley, CA

Management of a large 4-day bluegrass, old-time, and gospel music camp in northern California.

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

RS.com teaches guitar over the Internet

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.

Consultant to Sun Microsystems and FirstPerson Inc., providing systems software development and design involving audio and MIDI.

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.

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

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).

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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?

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.

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.