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MILESTONES, Page 63
SUSPENDED. Robert Tappan Morris Jr., 23, Cornell University
graduate student who last fall bedeviled two national computer
networks linking universities, corporations and the military by
infecting them with a computer virus. Morris' mischievous software
program was apparently intended to produce a slow disruption of the
networks. But a minor mistake in the instructions caused the virus
to identify secret passwords, shut down systems and replicate
itself uncontrollably. While no criminal charges have been filed
against Morris, Cornell barred him from classes until fall 1990.