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Began his undergraduate degree in the fall
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Soon after starting college in the fall, Kotok joined TMRC
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In Spring 1959, Kotok enrolled in the first ever programming class available for freshmen
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Kotak asked McCarthy if he had any projects he and his friends could work on and in the summer of 1959, they began working on McCarthy's project
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Kotak worked with David Gross to develop the Expansive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program
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Helped with developing the first video game by creating the first video game joystick
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Kotak wrote his final thesis on McCarthy's chess-playing program, and shortly after his thesis was published as an artificial intelligence memo from the Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Although he did not write any of its code, he was involved in the initial development of the PDP-1
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Began working at DEC in the summer of 1962, and retired in 1996 after 34 years with the company
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Taught classes for one year as a visiting faculty member
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After taking a brief period away from the World Wide Web, Kotok returned as Associate Chair, where he was responsible for managing contractual relations with W3C members
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at age 64, Kotok passed away due to a heart attack