Guy Lochhead, 20/05/10
American computer scientist well respected for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation and the World Wide Web Consortium. Kotok was a precocious child who skipped two grades before college and joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology aged 16. He was a member of the Tech Model Railroad Club. He co-designed an early chess-playing program, the controllers for ‘Spacewar!’ and ‘Expensive Tape Recorder’. Kotok is a significant figure in computer science, but I am more interested in the TMRC as an organisation than I am of its members’ individual merits.