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Re:Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020? by tobinfricke on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:09PM (#23725174)
I was wondering whether this might be "the" Robert Morris, made famous by the internet worm. After a glance at his MIT web page I concluded, no, this is a different Robert Morris. This one looks much too young! But he is the Robert Morris.

https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/robert-morris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris

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Re:Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020? by randomusrname on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:55PM (#23725540)
I don't know if you've noticed, but Robert Tappan Morris (the worm guy), is one of the founders of Y Combinator which owns Hackernews.
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Re:Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020? by tobinfricke on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:55PM (#23726949)
I did not know that!
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Re:Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020? by blocked_again on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:49PM (#23726906)
I mean the profile mentions he co-founded Viaweb. Viaweb was the company started by RMT and PG which got acquired by Yahoo. Interesting that YC is not mentioned in his profile though.
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