[SCC_Active_Members] FW: Alan Kotok

[Bernard L. Peuto]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Toole [mailto:toole at computerhistory.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:52 PM
> To: trustees
> Cc: vsc
> Subject: FW: Alan Kotok
> 
> For those who may have not heard about Alan Kotok's passing, 
> and for those who may have met him at the PDP-1 event 
> recently.  He was a pioneer, and we were fortunate to get to 
> know him well in the last several months. 
> Many will miss him.
> 
> The evening of the event, I remember talking to him about the 
> PDP-1, and he wanted to know how to become a member. He 
> signed up with Gary that evening. 
> 
> --John
> 
> P.S.  W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Russell [mailto:stever at nohau.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:27 PM
> To: Dag Spicer; Karen Tucker; Kirsten Tashev; Bob Stetson; Al 
> Kossow; John C Green; John Toole; Mike Cheponis; Allison 
> Akbay; team at PDP-1.Org
> Subject: Alan Kotok
> 
> Here is the most complete information that I have.
> 
>      Steve
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:15:33 -0400
> From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl at w3.org>
> To: W3T Team <w3t at w3.org>
> Subject: Very sad news
> Resent-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:15:58 +0000
> Resent-From: w3t at w3.org
> 
> 
> Dear W3C team-mates,
> 
> With the greatest of sorrow we share the news that our great 
> friend, colleague, and mentor Alan Kotok has passed away.
> 
> Alan's daughter Leah had come to visit him on a whim Thursday 
> evening and had dinner with him.  She said he was fine when 
> she left.  Alan apparently died peacefully sleeping in his 
> lounge chair Thursday night.  He had told Leah that he was 
> intending to go to his Cape May home for the weekend and not 
> take his laptop with him. Ralph, Susan and Amy discovered 
> that he had passed away when went to his home.
> 
> The world has lost a beautiful, sweet, kind person.  He's 
> been with W3C since before it was conceived ... in fact he 
> largely conceived it.
> 
> He's an incredibly integral part of the team -- his spirit is 
> so much the spirit of positively working together and having
> fun.   He is so benevolent.  He's just kind  -- sometimes in a
> friendly way and sometimes in a quite paternal way.  He's 
> done all kinds of work, and he's expressed his opinions on 
> all kinds of things, and he's taken on things difficult, 
> exciting or boring.
> I'm not going to make a list of all he has done, as it would 
> make a very long message.
> 
> A group of people like W3T goes through many ups and downs 
> together, and we know that we have been through a lot of 
> crises and celebrations.
> This is a blow of the sort we have not had to face before.
> 
> We have had the benefit of knowing a wonderful and 
> extraordinary person.
> We will celebrate him in many ways in days to come.
> 
> Now, though, we just sit stunned by our loss, contemplating 
> the void suddenly left within us.
> 
> Tim and Ralph
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Jim.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Do you know when/where a service will be for Alan?
> 
> 
> It is purportedly scheduled for some time Monday.  I will 
> apprise you as
> 
> the details beome available.
> 
> You can contact Amy van der Hiel at 1.617.253.5628 
> (amy at w3.org) for up-to-date details.  She is my contact for 
> now as well.
> 
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> -- 
> Simon J. Hernandez    |    http://people.w3.org/simon/
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