Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outbreak sent computer scientists scrambling to halt its spread. Russell Brand, who works for California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was one of the first to spot the problem. A quick survey of the lab's 400 machines showed that several computers had already been infected and that the contagion was growing rapidly. By early Thursday, computer operators had shut the system down and begun cleaning out the files. Then, recalls one of Brand's colleagues, "30 seconds after we restarted the system, the infection was back...
...week's end the contagion was largely contained. Defense Department officials were quick to point out that no data had been lost, no files destroyed, and none of the Government's most sensitive computer operations -- systems that do everything from gather intelligence to launch missiles -- had been compromised. But the event raised disturbing questions. "It shouldn't be so easy," says Lawrence Rogers, head of Princeton's Office of Computing and Information Technology. Harold Highland, editor of Computers & Security magazine, sees a useful lesson. "This attack is a wake-up call to all operators and users of computer networks...
...Quick, name the starting forward line of the Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers...
Three freshmen who will help close the defensive gap are Rick Olczyk, Brad Hendrickson and Craig Pho. Olczyk and Hendrickson are not big, but they are strong and quick, Gaudet says. Pho is 6-ft., 1-in, 185 pounds. "He's a good skater who has command of the puck," Gaudet notes...
Eventually, administrators and some department heads hope that the shift will help produce fairer consideration of junior faculty members and an increase in the number of women and minorities on the faculty. That task, as administrators are quick to acknowledge, is far from a simple one--the tradition of the Graustein system will take a long time...