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was an American computer scientist, known for the Kotok-McCarthy-Chess Program , his work at Digital Equipment Corporation, and his contributions on the [|World Wide Web Consortium] (W3C). Between 1959 and 1962, while student under John McCarthy at MIT, Alan Kotok and his fellows Elwyn Berlekamp, Michael A. Lieberman, Charles Niessen and Robert A. Wagner wrote a chess program for the IBM 7090. Based on Alex Bernstein's 1957 program and routines by McCarthy and Paul W. Abrahams, they added alpha-beta pruning to minmax, at McCarthy's suggestion. The Kotok-McCarthy-Program was written in Fortran and [|FAP], the IBM 7090 macro assembler. || toc =See also=
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 * Digital Equipment Corporation
 * History of Computer Chess
 * Kotok-McCarthy-Program
 * PDP-1
 * PDP-6
 * PDP-10
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=Selected Publications=
 * Alan Kotok (**1962**). //[|Artificial Intelligence Project - MIT Computation Center: Memo 41 - A Chess Playing Program]//. [|pdf]
 * Alan Kotok (**1962**). //A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090//. B.S. Thesis, MIT, AI Project Memo 41, Computation Center, Cambridge MA. [|pdf]
 * [|Gordon Bell], Alan Kotok, [|Thomas N. Hastings], [|Richard Hill] (**1978**). //[|The Evolution of the DECsystem-10]//. Communications of the ACM, 21(1): 44-63 » PDP-10

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 * [|Alan Kotok from Wikipedia]
 * [|Welcome to the Web site of Alan Kotok]
 * [|Tech Model Railroad Club from Wikipedia]
 * [|Alan Kotok] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|The Mouse That Roared: PDP-1 Celebration Event Lecture], May 15, 2006, (1:53:44) Mountain View, CA, USA: © **2006**, The Computer History Museum. Panel discussion including Alan Kotok (53:50-1:08:40) and John McCarthy (1:27:20), moderated by Edward Fredkin from 17:40, [|YouTube] Video

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