Robert Morris, a pioneer in the industry, died at 78 in his home on Sunday. Morris, a cryptographer who contributed to UNIX and worked at the National Computer Security Center to produce the Rainbow Series standards in computer security, was also an alum of Harvard.
Born in 1932 in Boston, Mass., Morris received both a bachelor's in mathematics and a master's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1957 and 1958, respectively. He worked at Bell Labs for twenty-six years from 1960-1986 and then began working with the National Security Agency until he retired in 1994. His son, Robert Tappan Morris, wrote the 1988 Morris Worm, which was one of the first computer worms that was distributed via the Internet.
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