Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morris, who was known as "RTM" among his close-knit circle of computer friends, developed a reputation as a friendly practical joker who liked to amuse his colleagues.
"When something went wrong at a work station, people would look at him and he would say, 'No, it wasn't me,'" said Mark J. Nitzberg, a computer graduate student, who knows Morris. "But he's not a criminal."
A typically inventive and nettlesome prank devised by Morris was a program that automatically sent computer users into an adventure game if they made typing errors while trying to enter an electronic mail system, friends said.
"Some people played it, and some people started cursing at it," said Gregory J. Kuperberg '87, who worked closely with Morris on computer projects while they roomed together in Dunster House.
While many friends declined to label the first-year Cornell graduate student a genius, they said hard work and an incredible enthusiasm for the subject created a potent programming ability. They said, however, that any computer graduate student was capable ofcreating the virus that entered the NationalSecurity Agency's computer...