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Alan Kotok is born
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Kotok enrolled at MIT
majored in electrical engineering
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The Chess group is developed
Kotok and classmates started working on John McCarthy's IBM 704 chess playing progran -
Kotok worked with 2nd PDP-1
Kotok and others re-wrote the code for the PDP-1 at MIT.
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Spacewar!
Kotok helped with the development of the game "Spacewar!"
He helped make the two controllers needed for playing the game.
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DEC career begins
He wrote a Fortan compiler for the PDP-4 to begin his career at the company. -
Kotok helped with the PDP-5
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Kotok helps develop PDP-6
Kotok was an assistant logic designer working on the development of the first commercial time-sharing computer.
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Kotok teaches at UC Berkley
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Kotok earns another degree at Clark University
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Kotok travels to Geneva for business
Kotok and others met with the CERN organization to discuss Web development and open standards.
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Kotok helps found the World Wide Web Consortium
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Kotok leaves the DEC
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Kotok joins W3C
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Kotok records an oral history at the Computer History Museum
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Alan Kotok passes away