[squinn2]

Cliff Stoll has a nice account of meeting Robert Morris at the NSA in chapter 45 of "The Cuckoo's Egg".

http://users.tmok.com/~pazzi/cuckoo_egg.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

[espeed]

The first Java program I remember writing was something that generated the "Robert Morris Sequence" -- the number sequence that Robert Morris Sr. gave to Cliff Stoll, which Stoll referenced in chapter 48 of the Cuckoo's Egg:

1 11 21 1211 111221 312211

[wyclif]

Thanks for posting that, this was the passage I thought of immediately upon seeing the announcement, and my introduction to who Morris was and why he was so important.

Condolences to rtm. A mighty oak has fallen.

[p4bl0]

Wanted to say the same thing, I just finished the book a week ago, never heard of him before and still I feel strangely affected by his death. Condolences to his family and firends.

[ArbitraryLimits]

My favorite part is how he starts off by critiquing Stoll's dissertation. "...although I thought that all atmostpheres were adiabatic so long as they convected."

It seems like the pioneers in new fields (computer security in this case) tend to know a lot about other ones, also.

[endgame]

I found that book on sale for 50c at a recycling shop. Best 50c I ever spent.

Today is truly a sad day.