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Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988, [3] considered the first computer worm on the Internet. [4]
Nov 2, 2018 · Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was —...
The worm's creator, Robert Tappan Morris, is the son of cryptographer Robert Morris, who worked at the NSA. A friend of Morris said that he created the worm simply to see if it could be done, and released it from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, instead of Cornell.
Oct 31, 2008 · Robert Tappan Morris, the 21-year-old Cornell University student who unleashed the first worm attack on the Internet in 1988, has fully rehabilitated his reputation in the computer...
Using that information, The Times soon confirmed and publicly reported that the culprit was a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student named Robert Tappan Morris. Morris was a talented...
Nov 16, 2023 · While the worm was initially thought to have spread from a computer at MIT, an FBI investigation revealed that Robert Tappan Morris, then a grad student in computer science (CS) on the Hill, was the mastermind—and that the worm had originated from his Cornell machine.
Jan 23, 1990 · A Federal jury today found Robert Tappan Morris, a 24-year-old computer science student, guilty of intentionally disrupting a nationwide computer network in November 1988 by writing a program...
Nov 5, 2019 · Yet Robert Tappan Morris, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate saw its possibilities. Morris was an aspiring innovator in the field and attending graduate school at Cornell. In the fall of 1988, he was hard at work on an experiment to determine if he could create a program that would spread from one computer to another on its own.
I work at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the PDOS group. In Fall 2018 I'll teach 6.S974, a seminar about decentralized applications. I'm interested in efficient systems software for multicore machines, and in various kinds of storage systems.
Jun 30, 2011 · Robert Morris, a cryptographer who helped develop the Unix computer operating system, which controls an increasing number of the world’s computers and touches almost every aspect of modern...
