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Joined Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT
At the start of Kotok's first year at MIT, at just 16 years old he joined the Tech Model Railroad Club. -
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Life of Alan Kotok
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With fellow classmates, Kotok developed IBM's first chess program
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Becoming familiar with the TX-0
When Kotok joined the railroad club at MIT, he became familiar with the TX-0, essentially a computer. This computer was the first of its kind and it led Kotok and his club to the gateway of hacking. -
Contributed to the Creation of Spacewar!
Alan was a very important contributor to the creation of the game Spacewar! Spacewar! was one of the first and most important created game in the 1960's that was designed for the DEC PDP-1. -
Corporate Consulting Engineer 69'-97'
Kotok was a corporate consulting engineer at Digital from 1962 to 1997. -
Began Writing Fortran Compiler for PDP-4
Kotok was a major contributor for the creation of the 4th edition PDP. -
PDP-6 in Australia, operated from Boston
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Spacewar!'s 10th anniversary
Rolling Stone celebrated the 10th anniversary of spacewar! -
Taught at Berkeley
1975-1976 Kotok taught logic design at UC Berkeley -
VAX 8600
Kotok helped to introduce the VAX 8600 (Venus). The highest performance computer to date at the time. -
Kotok traveled to CERN
Kotok and several others from Digital traveled to CERN which took place in Geneva to talk with Berners-Lee to create standards in regards to web development. -
Joins W3C as associate chairman
Kotok was in charge of managing contractual relations along with W3C hosts & along with member organizations. He was also responsible for coordinating the worldwide W3C Systems and much more. -
40th anniversary of spacewar!
The code of Spacewar! was transcribed into Java applet. The creators of the game were interviewed by the new york times. Kotok was a huge contributor to this program. -
Computer History Museum recording
Kotok recorded an oral history at the Computer History Museum. -
Brings W3C to India.
Kotok contributed to creating a new W3C office in India.
