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Re: Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2)

To: John Young <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Articles on Adelman and E=mc(2)
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 11:05:49 -0500
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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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