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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 · Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell graduate student, wrote a program that infected thousands of computers and caused the first distributed denial of service attack on the internet. Learn how he accidentally destroyed the web, his legal consequences, and his current role at MIT.
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, who wrote the first worm that infected 10% of the Internet in 1988, is now a respected computer science professor at MIT. Learn how he rebuilt his career and reputation after facing legal consequences for his actions.
Robert Tappan Morris was a Harvard graduate and a Cornell student who created the Morris Worm, a malicious program that infected thousands of computers in 1988. He was the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for unauthorized access to protected computers.
Nov 3, 2015 · Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell graduate student, created the Morris Worm in 1988, a program that infected 10 percent of the internet and caused chaos. Learn about the worm's impact, the debate over its classification, and Morris's legal and academic career.
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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.
