Now that my thesis project is (mostly) done, I get to concentrate some on writing for a while. Then move on to experiments with my system and BOINC.
The great thing about Cafe Cubana on the weekends is the music. They have a satellite radio. On the weekends, occasionally, they have really great jazz. There is nothing like really great jazz on Sundays.
The Father of computer virii, Distributed Computing, and Public-Resource computing
John Shoch and Jon Hupp were definitely ahead of the times. In 1978, they developed the first internetwork worm at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Two years latter, they wrote
this paper on the matter. In an attempt to investigate distributed computational systems, they created the first true public-resource computing applications, the first computer virus (note it wasn't public knowledge at the time, so Morris is typically credited with this accomplishment), and the first mobile/migrating processes. And I thought that public-resource computing went back to the mid-ninties, early-ninties at the earliest. It would seem that distributed computing has existed since the earliest reliable networking protocols - and this makes sense.
Okay, so even Shoch and Hupp were not the first. There were distributed applications as far back as the 1970, with 'The Creeper' looking like the first network worm written by B. Thomas and the "McRoss" simulation being the first mobile/migrating process; both occurring in the early 70's. Even Shoch and Hupp say that their list probably isn't complete.
