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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 —...
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...
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.
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.
Jul 26, 2011 · 1989: Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University graduate student, is the first person to be indicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris was prosecuted for creating and...
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 – that...
Nov 2, 2013 · Robert Tappan Morris, then a graduate student at Cornell, wasn't trying to "attack" other computers when he unleashed the first great incidence of malware, known thereafter as the Morris Worm,...
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...
