Alan Kotok

American computer scientist (1941-2006) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 64

Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Gordon Bell and Kotok at a PDP-6 in 1964

Tim Berners-Lee announcing the World Wide Web Foundation (W3F) in 2008. He mentions the 1994 meeting with Digital at CERN in his speech.[31]

Kotok speaking in Boston in 2004

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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.

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