Robert Tappan Morris
American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT
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, considered the first computer worm on the Internet.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Robert Tappan Morris (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Nov 8, 1965.1
About
Morris was prosecuted for releasing the worm, and became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
He went on to cofound the online store Viaweb, one of the first web applications, and later the venture capital funding firm Y Combinator, both with Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston and Trevor Blackwell.
He later joined the faculty in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received tenure in 2006. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
From Wikipedia’s article on Robert Tappan Morris, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Y CombinatorFounder3
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataRobert Tappan Morris on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaRobert Tappan Morris on Wikipedia
- 3WikidataY Combinator, Founder