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He was born on November 9 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. and was raised as an only child in the state of New Jersey.
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At age 16 Kotok started college at MIT and soon joined Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) At MIT Kotok earn bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering.
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During his time at MIT Kotok and his classmate name, McCarthy began to develop McCarthy's IBM 704 chess-playing program. Kotok described their work in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Project Memo 41 and in his bachelor thesis, by the time they graduated. the chess program was comparable to an amateur with about 100 game experience on an IBM 7090.
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Kotok was an American computer scientist known for his work at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC or Digital) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Kotok skipped two grades before college.
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Kotok contributed to on of the earliest interactive computer games, Spacewar
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He taught Logic Design at eh the University of California.
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At age 36 Kotok gets married to Judith McCoy a choice director and piano teacher. They had a daughter with the name of Leah Kotok.
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Kotok earn a Master's Degree in Business Administration which prepared him for his work at Digital and World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C)
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Selection of Payment Vehicle for Internet Purchases
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Before he died he recorded an oral history at the Computer History Museum.
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On May 26, 2006 he died at his home in Cambridge from a heart attack.