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| Name | Robert Tappan Morris |
| First Name | Robert |
| Last Name | Morris |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Birthday | November 8 |
| Birth Year | 1965 |
| Place of Birth | Massachusetts |
| Home Town | |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Robert Morris, Anne Farlow Morris |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Robert Tappan Morris Biography
Robert Tappan Morris is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on November 8, 1965 in Massachusetts, United States.
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.
Morris grew up in the Millington section of Long Hill Township, New Jersey, and graduated from Delbarton School in 1983.
Morris was born in 1965 to parents Robert Morris (cryptographer) and Anne Farlow Morris. The senior Morris was a computer scientist at Bell Labs, who helped design Multics and Unix; and later became the chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center, a division of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Robert Tappan Morris Net Worth
Robert is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Tappan Morris's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Entrepreneur |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
After serving his conviction term, he returned to Harvard to complete his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) under the supervision of H.T. Kung. He finished in 1999.
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.
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In 1989, Morris was indicted for violating United States Code Title 18 (18 U.S.C. § 1030), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). He was the first person to be indicted under this act. In December 1990, he was sentenced to three years of probation, 400 hours of community service, and a fine of $10,050 plus the costs of his supervision. He appealed, but the motion was rejected the following March. Morris’ stated motive during the trial was “to demonstrate the inadequacies of current security measures on computer networks by exploiting the security defects [he] had discovered.” He completed his sentence as of 1994.
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
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Morris’ computer worm was developed in 1988, while he was a graduate student at Cornell University. He released the worm from MIT, rather than from Cornell. The worm exploited several vulnerabilities to gain entry to targeted systems, including:
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Where is Robert Tappan Morris now?
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 science community. Today, he is a respected associate professor of computer science at MIT.
How was the Morris worm stopped?
Teams of programmers worked non-stop to come up with at least a temporary fix, to prevent the continued spread of the worm. After about twelve hours, the team at Berkeley came up with steps that would help retard the spread of the virus. Another method was also discovered at Purdue and widely published.
Why did Robert Morris create the Morris worm?
According to Morris, the purpose of the worm was to gauge the size of the precursor “Internet” of the time – ARPANET – although it unintentionally caused denial-of-service (DoS) for around 10% of the 60,000 machines connected to ARPANET in 1988.
What did Morris worm do?
The Morris worm, named for its creator, Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, rapidly infected the limited (by today’s standards) computers connected to the internet. An estimated 6,000 machines, depleted of their resources as the worm depleted computing resources, shut down and were rendered inoperable.
How long was Robert Tappan Morris in jail?
But Morris didn’t get any jail time, even though his eponymous worm created a huge hassle for a lot of people. Instead, he got 400 hours of community service and had to pay just $10,000.
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