Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard calls from Morris' associates for leniency. "RTM" (as Morris cleverly dubbed himself), didn't mean to do it, and his virus went awry due to a programming error, say his friends. Other friendly theories propose that Morris was just trying to prove something to his father, a computer scientist with the top-secret National Security Agency, or (get this) he was trying to perform a public benefit by showing how vulnerable the nation's computer systems are. One friend even says the virus will turn to Morris' profit, as his notoriety attracts hundreds of lucrative computer job offers...
...according to the New York Times, turned out to be Robert T. Morris Jr., a 23-year-old graduate student at Cornell University. His father is Robert Morris Sr., chief scientist at the National Computer Security Center in Maryland. The center, a division of the National Security Agency, works to protect Government computers from outside attack. The elder Morris, who was one of the first researchers to experiment with viruses at AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the early 1960s, when they were still considered a game, is a top expert on combating the kind of sabotage in which...
...Pilgrim and Yankee Rowe plants, two of the most dangerous nuclear power plants in the country. Pilgrim is simply referred to by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the worst-run nuclear plant in the country; Rowe is the oldest in the country and called by the Union of Concerned Scientist one of the five most likely plants to have a serious nuclear accident...
Forced to concoct a drama, Glashow chooses as his story the constant intersections of theory and observation that led to the currently held beliefs about the structure of the atom. Just as in The Double Helix, another popular scientific work about an abstract theory, the scientist's own life takes on great importance. Interactions goes beyond simply imparting Glashow's knowledge of elementary particle physics (the realm of quarks, strangeness, charm and color)in an effort to present what he terms a "scientific autobiography...
Employing a technique called distributed processing, Arjen Lenstra, a Dutch-born computer scientist working as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, broke the task into smaller pieces and dispatched them over ordinary phone lines to computers at universities and corporations. The results were then compiled by minicomputers at a Digital Equipment lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The success of the ad hoc network, one of the largest ever assembled, raises problems for cryptographers and intelligence agencies, whose code solutions are often based on the prime factors of long, hard-to-solve integers. But it certainly demonstrates the enormous...