NATION : Cornell Suspends Computer Hacker
Cornell University has suspended a graduate student who created a computer “virus” that jammed a nationwide computer network last year, it was reported today.
Robert Tappan Morris, 23, was informed in a May 16 letter by the dean of the Cornell University Graduate School that the university’s Academic Integrity Hearing Board recommended that he be suspended until the fall semester of 1990, the New York Times said.
The virus entered about 6,000 computers at universities, corporations and military installations last November and replicated itself until systems nationwide were jammed.
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