Word: worming
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Morris, 23, who is on a leave of absence from Cornell's doctoral program in computer science, declined to be interviewed by the commission, which was left to speculate as to the reasons Morris created the "worm...
Technically, the program was not a "virus," which inserts itself into a host program to propagate; it was actually a "worm," or an independent program that endlessly duplicates itself once placed in a computer system...
...into a two-counter shop near my apartment. One bin holds small yellowish apples that have played host to a worm or two. Ten minutes later I find better apples at a private stand. I wait in line three minutes and buy a dozen...
SCIENCE: To go where no worm has gone before...
...anywhere in the universe -- even to a spot billions of light-years away. The name wormhole comes about by analogy: imagine a fly on an apple. The only way the fly can reach the apple's other side is the long way, over the fruit's surface. But a worm could bore a tunnel through the apple, shortening the trip considerably. A wormhole in space is the same sort of tunnel; it is a shortcut from one part of the universe to another that reduces the travel time to just about zero...