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Alan Kotok

Alan Kotok

associate chair, W3C
Alan Kotok lived from November 9, 1941 to May 26, 2006. He was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his fellow classmates at MIT as the first true hackers.  [more]