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Birth of Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok was born on November 9th, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA -
Attended MIT
At the age of 16, Alan Kotok enrolled at MIT after skipping two grades in high school. Soon after, he began participating in the Tech Model Railroad Club. -
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Kotok-McCarthy
Elwyn Berlekamp, Michael Lieberman, Charles Niessen, Alan Kotok and Robert Wager wrote a chess playing program for the IBM 7090 computer -
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Expensive Tape Recorder
Sometime between 1959 and 1962 Alan Kotok and David Gross developed a tape recorder for the TX-0. The name may have come from the $3 million production and development cost of the TX-0. -
Assisted In Rewriting The FRAP Assembler For The PDP-1
Alan Kotok, along with 5 other hackers, spent over 250 man hours in one weekend re-writing Ed Fredkin's FRAP assembler. -
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Corporate Consulting Engineer For Digital
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Employed by Digital Equipment Corporation
He started as one of the corporations first few employees and held positions in storage, telecommunications, and software. -
Spacewar Released
Alan Kotok is responsible for creating the first ever joystick using scrap parts. -
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Taught Logic Design At Berkeley
Kotok taught logic design at Berkeley in the 1975 academic year -
Earned Master's Degree in Business Administration
Clark University -
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VAX 8600
Kotok was the system architect for the VAX 8600. The VAX 8600 was the highest-performance computer in Digital's history. -
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W3C Advisory Committee Representative for Digital
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Vice President Of Marketing
Alan Kotok was the Vice President of Marketing for GC Tech Incorporated. -
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W3C
In may of 1997, Alan Kotok joined the W3C as an associate chairman. He was responsible for managing relations with W3C hosts, coordinating systems, and maintaining the W3C host site. -
Alan's Wife, Judie Kotok, Passes Away
Her death was caused from side effects of treatment for blood cancer. -
Death
Alan Kotok died in his home from complications due to a heart attack.
