Alan Kotok, W3C Associate Chair, MIT site manager and head of the W3C Systems Team, passed away last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was 64. Before his many contributions to W3C, Alan held senior engineering positions at DEC in storage, telecommunications and software. A member of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, he helped to build the legendary computer game Spacewar, and the gaming joystick. He appears in the Origins of computer chess and in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.