Alan Kotok
Overview
- This article is about Alan Kotok who was associate chair of W3C. Alan B. Kotok who is the managing editor of Science Careers is also called Alan Kotok.
Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American
United States
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computer scientist
Computer scientist
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known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
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(Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...
(W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City, New York by Anchor Press/Doubleday...
, describes Kotok and his fellow classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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(MIT) as the first true hackers.
Kotok was a precocious child who skipped two grades before college.
Quotations
I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.
on flying; quoted in
It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.
on business travel; quoted in
We hadn't invented 'Not Invented Here', yet.
quoted in