Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first true hackers.
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9 November 1941 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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26 May 2006 (aged 64) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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