In Memoriam: Alan Kotok

Alan Kotok, W3C Associate Chair, MIT site manager and head of the W3C Systems Team, passed away last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was 64. Before his many contributions to W3C, Alan held senior engineering positions at DEC. A member of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, he helped to build the legendary computer game Spacewar. He appears in the Origins of Computer Chess and in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. We are grateful to have worked with him and will miss his great kindness, humor, intellect and dedication. Remembrances may be sent to the public-memoria@w3.org public mailing list.