ASP Press / Addison-Wesley Publishing Company / Xerox / New York Times / Hupp / /
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United States / /
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Judicial Event / /
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Penn State University / University of Cambridge / Cornell University / University of Texas / University of Cincinnati / /
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food chain / distributed processing / parallel processing problem / communications advantage / print media / little food die / parallel processing applications / non-viral bill collection systems / parallel processing / research networks / similar technologies / large parallel processors / less available processing / less processing / food / pure processing cycles / unused processing time / parallel processing using self-replicating programs / themselves throughout networks / speed parallel processing applications / intelligent self-organizing systems / parallel processing computers / across different operating systems / computer networks / to biological systems / speed computing record / computing / Internet users / viral systems / Internet Virus / tolerant computing techniques / life-like systems / /
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Unix / /
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Penn State University / Cornell University / University of Cincinnati / University of Cambridge / University of Texas / /
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Fred Cohen / Frederick B. Cohen / Robert Morris / El Passo / John von Neumann / /
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collector / viral collector / systems administrator / researcher / first viral bill collector / bill collector / viral bill collector / professor / appropriate bill collector / programmer / /
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C / J / /
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Texas / New York / Pennsylvania / Massachusetts / /
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Scientific American / New York Times / the IFIP journal / /
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large parallel processors / Unix operating system / operating system / operating systems / database management system / parallel processing / /
A Case for Benevolent Viruses by Dr. Frederick B. Cohen ‡ In recent months, a controversy has arisen in the electronic and print media as to the viability of benevolent computer viruses and the morality of a contest to