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Robert Morris

Investor

Founder, Retired at Y Combinator

United States

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A professor of computer science at MIT and member of the PDOS group. He has published extensively on wireless networks, distributed operating systems, and peer-to-peer systems. His 1988 discovery of buffer overflow vulnerabilities brought significant attention to internet security, and he holds degrees from Harvard.

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Who is Robert Morris?
A professor of computer science at MIT and member of the PDOS group. He has published extensively on wireless networks, distributed operating systems, and peer-to-peer systems. His 1988 discovery of buffer overflow vulnerabilities brought significant attention to internet security, and he holds degrees from Harvard.
Where does Robert Morris work?
Robert Morris is Founder, Retired at Y Combinator.

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