Word: theprogram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They [CHANCE] have an excellent an chance ofraising a large amount of money to endow thescholarship," Rogers said. "And that will make theprogram much better. The bottom line is that theyhave a lot of support in the area...
...estimates that initially, only 700,000students would be able to get aid under theprogram. Approximately five million studentsreceive need-based financial aid nationwide,according to John Shattuck, Harvard's vicepresident for government and community affairs...
Morris has reportedly said that he intended tolodge only a few copies of the program in eachcomputer, enough to allow Morris to track theprogram's progress but not to disrupt operations...
Graham, characterizing the experiment as beingborn out of "scientific curiosity" rather than"malicious curiosity," said that an error in theprogram caused the virus to mulitiply and spreadat a rapid rate from computer to computer. Heexplained that Morris had intended only for thevirus to have one copy in each computer withoutreplicating...
During long hours at Aiken, Morris also createda program that generates high-quality picturesthat appear on an idle computer screen. Theprogram, which is still in use, periodicallygenerates pictures of Morris and of a professor'scat...