Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok 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 classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first true hackers.
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- Born in
- Philadelphia
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyClark UniversityVineland High School
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1941
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