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"No one has identified themselves as having called because of the ad," said Steven R. Singer, director of press relations for the K-School. Calling this year's ad "an experiment," Singer said he will probably not buy space in next year's directory.
Mavens does, however, plan to open a strictly orthodox, Sabbath-observant kosher deli in another, lower-overhead location sometime next year. Mavens regrets that its experiment seeking to serve the entire Harvard Square area Jewish community did not succeed, but it is delighted that it is still able to bring...
"The kid," 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...
The younger Morris apparently created the virus as an experiment, intending that it would slowly copy itself across Arpanet, resting harmlessly in thousands of computers. But a tiny mistake in the programming reportedly caused the virus to replicate much more rapidly than planned. Otherwise, Morris' program was an impressive piece...
"Some people are calling this just a harmless experiment that went wrong. I'm not so sure," said Stoll. "If it were meant to be harmless, then why did [Morris] put in all these defenses? There are still some things that bother me about this."