Random conversation in Matt McGrath’s office a couple years ago after reading Nick Chrisman’s book we all knew

The Morris worm was created by Robert Morris (Cornell PhD student)

• The Morris worm was created by Robert Morris (Cornell PhD student)

• One of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet to get mainstream media attention
• Intended to estimate size of Internet, but programming bug resulted in a virulent denial of service attack
• Resulted in the first conviction under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
• The worm was released from MIT to disguise the fact that the worm originally came from Cornell
• Morris is now an associate professor at MIT

William Bunge publishes the Nuclear War Atlas

• William Bunge publishes the Nuclear War Atlas

• Maps the state of nuclear readiness, the possible courses of nuclear war, and the post-nuclear-war world
• Originally published in part as a poster in 1982, it had a big impact