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[[FILE:Alan Kotok-20060510.jpg|border|right|thumb|Alan Kotok at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory CSAIL] in 2006 <ref>Alan Kotok at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory CSAIL] in 2006, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok Alan Kotok from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Alan Kotok''', (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006)<br/>
was an American computer scientist, known for the [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program|Kotok-McCarthy-Chess Program]] <ref>Alan Kotok ('''1962'''). ''[http://www.kotok.org/AI_Memo_41.html Artificial Intelligence Project - MIT Computation Center: Memo 41 - A Chess Playing Program]''. [ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-041.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13506 Forty five years ago] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[CCC]], May 01, 2007</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/ Michael Brudno] ('''2000'''). ''Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess'', [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ebrudno/essays/cchess.pdf pdf]</ref>, his work at [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], and his contributions on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium World Wide Web Consortium] (W3C). Between 1959 and 1962, while student under [[John McCarthy]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|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 [[The Bernstein Chess Program|Alex Bernstein's 1957 program]] and routines by [[John McCarthy|McCarthy]] and [[Paul W. Abrahams]], they added [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta pruning]] to [[Minimax|minmax]], at McCarthy's suggestion. The [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]] was written in [[Fortran]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704/9/90_FORTRAN_Assembly_Program#FORTRAN_Assembly_Program FAP], the IBM 7090 macro assembler.
=See also=
* [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]
* [[History|History of Computer Chess]]
* [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]]
* [[PDP-1]]
* [[PDP-6]]
* [[PDP-10]]
* [[Stanford-ITEP Match]]
=Selected Publications=
* <span id="1962"></span>Alan Kotok ('''1962'''). ''[http://www.kotok.org/AI_Memo_41.html Artificial Intelligence Project - MIT Computation Center: Memo 41 - A Chess Playing Program]''. [ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-041.pdf pdf]
* Alan Kotok ('''1962'''). ''A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090''. B.S. Thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], AI Project Memo 41, Computation Center, Cambridge MA. [http://www.kotok.org/AK-Thesis-1962.pdf pdf]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell Gordon Bell], Alan Kotok, [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hastings:Thomas_N=.html Thomas N. Hastings], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hill:R=.html Richard Hill] ('''1978'''). ''[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer_Engineering/00000511.htm The Evolution of the DECsystem-10]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], 21(1): 44-63 » [[PDP-10]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok Alan Kotok from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.kotok.org/ Welcome to the Web site of Alan Kotok]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club Tech Model Railroad Club from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/search.php?more=&submitted=1&keywords=Kotok&x=25&y=5&all=all&item_document=item_document&item_moving_image=item_moving_image&item_artifact=item_artifact&item_still_image=item_still_image&item_oral_history=item_oral_history&item_software=item_software Alan Kotok] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1142978073 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) <ref>Alan Kotok died at his home in Cambridge, apparently from a heart attack, on May 26, 2006, eleven days after the PDP-1 Celebration Event</ref> and [[John McCarthy]] (1:27:20), moderated by [[Edward Fredkin]] from 17:40, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8zU8WQO-PY|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
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[[FILE:Alan Kotok-20060510.jpg|border|right|thumb|Alan Kotok at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory CSAIL] in 2006 <ref>Alan Kotok at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory CSAIL] in 2006, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok Alan Kotok from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]
'''Alan Kotok''', (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006)<br/>
was an American computer scientist, known for the [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program|Kotok-McCarthy-Chess Program]] <ref>Alan Kotok ('''1962'''). ''[http://www.kotok.org/AI_Memo_41.html Artificial Intelligence Project - MIT Computation Center: Memo 41 - A Chess Playing Program]''. [ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-041.pdf pdf]</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13506 Forty five years ago] by [[Steven Edwards]], [[CCC]], May 01, 2007</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/ Michael Brudno] ('''2000'''). ''Competitions, Controversies, and Computer Chess'', [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ebrudno/essays/cchess.pdf pdf]</ref>, his work at [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], and his contributions on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium World Wide Web Consortium] (W3C). Between 1959 and 1962, while student under [[John McCarthy]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|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 [[The Bernstein Chess Program|Alex Bernstein's 1957 program]] and routines by [[John McCarthy|McCarthy]] and [[Paul W. Abrahams]], they added [[Alpha-Beta|alpha-beta pruning]] to [[Minimax|minmax]], at McCarthy's suggestion. The [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]] was written in [[Fortran]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704/9/90_FORTRAN_Assembly_Program#FORTRAN_Assembly_Program FAP], the IBM 7090 macro assembler.
=See also=
* [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]
* [[History|History of Computer Chess]]
* [[Kotok-McCarthy-Program]]
* [[PDP-1]]
* [[PDP-6]]
* [[PDP-10]]
* [[Stanford-ITEP Match]]
=Selected Publications=
* <span id="1962"></span>Alan Kotok ('''1962'''). ''[http://www.kotok.org/AI_Memo_41.html Artificial Intelligence Project - MIT Computation Center: Memo 41 - A Chess Playing Program]''. [ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-041.pdf pdf]
* Alan Kotok ('''1962'''). ''A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090''. B.S. Thesis, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], AI Project Memo 41, Computation Center, Cambridge MA. [http://www.kotok.org/AK-Thesis-1962.pdf pdf]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell Gordon Bell], Alan Kotok, [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hastings:Thomas_N=.html Thomas N. Hastings], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hill:R=.html Richard Hill] ('''1978'''). ''[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer_Engineering/00000511.htm The Evolution of the DECsystem-10]''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], 21(1): 44-63 » [[PDP-10]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kotok Alan Kotok from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.kotok.org/ Welcome to the Web site of Alan Kotok]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club Tech Model Railroad Club from Wikipedia]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/search.php?more=&submitted=1&keywords=Kotok&x=25&y=5&all=all&item_document=item_document&item_moving_image=item_moving_image&item_artifact=item_artifact&item_still_image=item_still_image&item_oral_history=item_oral_history&item_software=item_software Alan Kotok] from [[The Computer History Museum]]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1142978073 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) <ref>Alan Kotok died at his home in Cambridge, apparently from a heart attack, on May 26, 2006, eleven days after the PDP-1 Celebration Event</ref> and [[John McCarthy]] (1:27:20), moderated by [[Edward Fredkin]] from 17:40, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8zU8WQO-PY|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
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