On June 7, 2007, I attended a Memorial for Alan Kotok at Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center, MIT Building 32, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA. Those who attended came together to celebrate and remember Alan - his wisdom, his wit, his achievements, and the aspects of our world which sparked his interest and enthusiasm. Alan earned degrees from MIT and Clark University. He was a member of the team that wrote a chess playing program in 1959. He instigated the first computer video game, "Spacewar!" and also the joystick. He was employed at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for 34 years. At DEC, he worked on designs for the PDP-4, PDP-5, PDP-6. He was the principal architect and designer of the PDP-10, DECsystem-10, DECsystem-20, and VAX 8600. He helped found the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He served W3C as associate chairman. He also managed the W3C host site at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He served on the committee that helped MIT build the Stata Center. He appears in "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy. More details are available in this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok He will be missed. -~- My photo(s) of the Stata Center were taken with a Nikon 4300; all settings automatic. The postwork was done in Photoshop 7: limited to combine 2 images, crop, resize, optimize for web. Thank you very much for viewing. I appreciate each and every comment that you offer -~- Progress depends on criticism and advice as well as praise.