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Robert Morris- Early Years
Morris was born in Long Hill Township, New Jersey. Graduated from Delbarton School in 1983. Went to college at Harvard University, when to graduate school from Cornell University. Where Morris became famous in the hacking industry. -
Morris Soon Got Caught
Morris violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This act consists un-authorized access to federal computer. Morris was found guilty in 1990. Did get a light sentence of a fine and community service hours. -
More Background of Morris Worm Trial
Sources think that Morris should of going to jail. By hacking into computers and not controlling his creation. A matter of destroying property. Other sources say that Morris should of face jail time. Others sources say that the crime that Morris committed, was very minor should not gone to jail. However people want put assumptions on the case. Should Morris have done a sentence for his crime or not? -
How Many Computers Were Affected By The Worm Virus
In a few days during the worm virus. Estimated 6,000 or more computer were affected. These computers included university, military instillations, and research computers. Worm virus was very cost effective. Getting every computer fixed ranged two- hundred dollars for each computer. -
Morris Work Being Recognized- In a Bad Way
When Morris was still at Harvard and Cornell. The computer invention was not a proud achievement. Morris created a widely spreadable computer internet virus called "worm". Luckily the worm virus did not mean to cause harm on computers. Morris made an error on writing the formula. -
Morris Vs. The United States
Morris was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud And Abuse Act. -
Morris founded a Computer Company
Morris co founded a company with his friend Paul Graham. Viaweb was a start up company made software for buildings online stores. Soon the company grew into an empire. In 1998 Viaweb got sold from Yahoo for forty-nine million dollars. Once Yahoo got the rights to the company they latter on renamed it Yahoo!store. -
Robert Morris Invention Did Do Good For Computer users
Although not a lot of people can forget about his crime that was committed. Robert Morris did do a good dead after the crime. Along with computer network architectures both parties created what looked like routers. In order to make sure they work, inventors would put it on the roof of a house. This invention was to make sure that computers would get great reception. So people could connect how ever individuals choose. This technique was known as Roofnet. -
Trying To Take Responsibility For Whats To Come
With the worm virus that Morris created. Why he created the virus is to duplicate multiple times on computers. The virus became worse and worse started to replicate over and over again. Overall causing an overload on hard drives this lead to damage. A friend of Morris tried to send out warning signs to people with computers, but it was too late. Owners of computers monitors already started to shut down. -
Morris Receiving Phd
Morris Received his Phd from Harvard University in applied sciences. For his senior thesis he titled Scalable TCP Congestion Control -
Founded Anther Computer Company
Morris co- founded a second company called Y Combinator. This company provides advice to start up companies. As well as seed money as a start to latter building up their companies. In order to be as successful as other computer companies. -
Robert Morris At Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Morris started teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Were Morris received a tenure in the computer science department. -
Started Working at a Technical Advisor
Morris started working as a technical advisor for a company known as Meraki Networks. -
Created A Computer Programing Language
Morris released a Arc Programming Language. Detect if an individual is lisping on their words an individual is trying to say. -
What is Robert Morris Doing Now?
Although what happened to Morris in the past. He is a professor at MIT teaching computer science.