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After skipping two grades in high school, Kotok enrolls at MIT at the age of 16. -
Shorter after enrolling at MIT, Kotok joins the TRMC. From this group, Bob Saunders, Peter Samson, Bob Wagner, and Kotok would establish the foundation for hacker culture. -
Taking over for MIT professor John McCarthy, Kotok and classmates take over McCarthy's IBM 704 chess-playing program -
First realized on the PDP-1, Kotok and associates contributed to one of the earliest interactive computer video games, Spacewar! Kotok and Saunders are credited with building the game controllers that allowed two people to play side by side. -
Kotok graduates from MIT with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E). -
Kotok began writing a Fortran compiler for the PDP-4, an imperative program language for numeric and scientific computation -
As an assistant logic designer, Kotok developed the first-time sharing computer, the PDP-6. In computing, time-sharing is sharing computer resources among many users simultaneously utilizing multiprogramming and multi-tasking. -
Kotok graduates from MIT with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering -
Kotok becomes the principal architect and designer for several generations of the PDP-10, DECsystem-10, and DECSYSTEM-20 -
Interested in expanding his areas of expertise from engineering to teaching and business, and following a suggestion by former classmate Elwyn Berlekamp, Kotok teaches logic design at the University of California, Berkley -
Kotok graduates from Clark University with a master's degree in business administration -
Kotok helped invent the VAX 8600, the highest-performance computer in Digital's history, operating up to 4.2 faster than the standard time. -
While at Digital, Kotok recognized the Web's potential and helped found the World Wide Web Consortium to promote open standards and coordinate web development -
As technical director of Digital's Corporate Strategy Group, Kotok was instrumental in the Internet Business Group and creating the AltaVista Search engine, the Internet firewall, the Web portal, the webcast, and live election returns -
Kotok joins the W3C as associate chairman (MIT). His roles included the management of contractual relations with W3C hosts and member organizations, coordinating the worldwide operations of W3C systems and Web teams to include servicing millions of web pages and resources on the W3C website, and maintaining the host site at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory -
As associate chairman, Kotok significantly contributed to the W3C Patent Policy and chaired Patent Advisory Groups, including HTML