of marketing and director of program development. Synthesized music Samson designed the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer. Built at Systems Concepts, for ten years it was the primary engine for the computer music group at Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). NASA Samson oversaw manufacturing and engineering for hardware, including the central memory subsystem for the ILLIAC IV supercomputer complex at the NASA Ames Research Center. Autodesk At Autodesk, he contributed to rendering, animation, Web browsing, and scripting languages. He received U.S. patents in software anti-piracy and virtual reality. Subway racing In 1966 Samson attempted to ride all lines of the New York City Subway in the shortest possible time. True to the MIT hacker culture he enlisted a computer in planning for the event. Despite missing out on the then fastest time, Samson's attempt was to act as the inspiration for many similar subway racing attempts. Current Samson appears in the Computer History Museum Mouse That Roared panel discussion recorded in May 2006 to celebrate the restoration of a PDP-1. For the restoration project he reverse-engineered music tapes from the PDP-1 era and built a player for the museum where he is currently a docent. Notes External links Peter Samson personal home page Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language Music Playing on the PDP-6, by Donald Sordillo, 1996, contains Music Compiler for PDP-1 by Peter Samson PDP-1 Music, Daniel P. B. Smith, Web site and post to alt.folklore.computers (Google link) (accessed June 10, 2006) American computer programmers Computer designers Video game programmers American video game designers 1941 births Living people