# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-kotok
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:28:54.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-kotok"
name: "Alan Kotok"
slug: "alan-kotok"
description: "Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first true hackers."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1941–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Kotok_by_r12a.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1941-11-09"
deathDate: "2006-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.54492533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "الان كوتوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Kotok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok"
    title: "Alan Kotok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok"
    title: "Alan Kotok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok"
    title: "Alan Kotok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok"
    title: "Alan Kotok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "アラン・コトック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A8%EB%9F%B0_%EC%BD%94%ED%86%A1"
    title: "앨런 코톡"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alan Kotok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok"
    title: "Alan Kotok"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "艾伦·科托克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92925"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump