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> See http://w3.org.
>
> In Memoriam: Alan Kotok (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok)
>
> 2006-06-01: 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 in storage,  
> telecommunications and software. A member of the MIT Tech Model  
> Railroad Club, he helped to build the legendary computer game  
> Spacewar,
> and the gaming joystick. He appears in the Origins of Computer  
> Chess and in
> Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. We are grateful to have  
> worked with Alan and will miss his great kindness, humor, intellect  
> and dedication. Remembrances may be sent to the public- 
> memoria@w3.org public mailing list.


I am saddened to hear Alan Kotok has passed away.  I met Alan at the  
MIT AI lab in 1967 where he was a frequent visitor.  In addition to  
the several contributions cited in the W3C news, I believe he was  
also a designer of the PDP-6 (and hence PDP-10) instruction set,  
which was a pinnacle of elegance in word-oriented architecture.  He  
was also an avid bridge player, and his initials, AK, were amusingly  
appropriate.  His close relationship with the AI Lab helped maintain  
a strong bridge between Digital Equipment Corporation and the fount  
of intellectual vibrancy at MIT.  It was always a pleasure to see  
Alan.  He will be missed.

Steve