He was a technical contributor to X3J13, the ANSI subcommittee that standardized Common Lisp and contributed to the design of the programming language. He prepared the document that became ANSI Common Lisp, the Common Lisp HyperSpec, (a hypertext conversion) and the document that became ISO ISLISP. He is currently setting up a new organization for developing standards called Substandards.
Kent Pitman was also the author of Another Way Out a parody of the CBS Daytime series The Young and the Restless.
Further information and a list of publications can be found at his personal home page: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/index.html