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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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Robert Morris. Room 32-G972. 32 Vassar Street. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. rtm@csail.mit.edu. I work at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in the PDOS group. In recent years I've taught 6.S081 , 6.824 , 6.828 , and 6.858 . I'm interested in operating systems, networks, distributed systems, and storage systems.
