ESOC 210: Alan Kotok

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  • Alan Kotok is born

  • Kotok enrolled at MIT

    majored in electrical engineering
    https://images.app.goo.gl/EFjKG4ZKRigSCbpn9

  • 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.
    https://images.app.goo.gl/fKduMEr4KfuFqBhBA

  • Spacewar!

    Kotok helped with the development of the game "Spacewar!"
    He helped make the two controllers needed for playing the game.
    https://images.app.goo.gl/iTMqf2uw8AjP8tZ3A

  • 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

    it was the DEC's first 12-bit computer, it was not finally introduced until 1963.

  • Kotok helps develop PDP-6

    Kotok was an assistant logic designer working on the development of the first commercial time-sharing computer.
    https://images.app.goo.gl/HFt4b1QfxCLXoutA8

  • Kotok teaches at UC Berkley

    He taught logic design for the 1975-1976 academic year.

  • Kotok earns another degree at Clark University

    Kotok earned his business administration degree from Clark University.

  • Kotok travels to Geneva for business

    Kotok and others met with the CERN organization to discuss Web development and open standards.
    https://images.app.goo.gl/w6yzkX5ujeffQhadA

  • Kotok helps found the World Wide Web Consortium

    https://images.app.goo.gl/M9WkD6LUMyvw8R2j8

  • Kotok leaves the DEC

  • Kotok joins W3C

  • Kotok records an oral history at the Computer History Museum

  • Alan Kotok passes away