1994-12-13 - Re: Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2)

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Message Hash: 17c3b6daa9eb72eb2ad0abf138b49b31ad53982b03e0ef9cc803ec412d407ae3
Message ID: <9412131605.AA12267@snark.imsi.com>
Reply To: <199412131550.KAA23154@pipe3.pipeline.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-12-13 16:06:31 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 08:06:31 PST

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 08:06:31 PST
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2)
In-Reply-To: <199412131550.KAA23154@pipe3.pipeline.com>
Message-ID: <9412131605.AA12267@snark.imsi.com>
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John Young says:
> The New York Times has an interesting article today on the life 
> and career of Leonard Adelman, with remarks on RSA and public 
> key cryptography.  Friendly, not technical.

The article contains a serious inaccuracy -- it credits Adleman with
having invented the term "Computer Virus", when, in fact, it was
probably John Brunner in his novel "The Shockwave Rider" over ten
years earlier. It also inaccurately credits one of his students with
developing the first one as a test, when in fact they existed for a
long time before.

.pm

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• 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 07:52:03 PST) - Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2) - John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
  • 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 08:06:31 PST) - Re: Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2) - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
    • 1994-12-15 (Thu, 15 Dec 94 15:43:24 PST) - Re: Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2) - abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)
  • 1994-12-13 (Tue, 13 Dec 94 15:41:11 PST) - ohh, sheesh! forget that last message. - M.Gream@uts.EDU.AU (Matthew Gream)
  • 1994-12-14 (Wed, 14 Dec 94 04:50:53 PST) - Re: Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2) - zimm@alumni.caltech.edu (Mark Edward Zimmerman)