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(Clifford Stoll is an astronomer, educator and the creator of Acme Klein Bottles, purveyor of fine non-orientable manifolds.) |
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Clifford Stoll is an astronomer, author, and teacher who attained his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1980. | Clifford Stoll is an astronomer, author, and teacher who attained his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1980. | ||
As written in his 1989 book, "The Cuckoo's Egg", once the grant money employing Cliff as a designer of telescope optics for Keck Observatory dried up, Cliff would find himself saved from the unemployment office, reused as a Systems Administrator back at the computer department at the {{Lawrence Berkeley Lab}}. After encountering a $0.75 accounting error in the timesharing VAX computer system, he would unravel the case of the "Hanover Hacker", implicating Markus Hess, a KGB agent who would be known as the world's first documented computer hacker. | |||
The story has been recorded recorded as | The story has been recorded recorded as a paper in the May 1988 issue of the "Communications of the ACM" Jason Scott's Texfiles.com: http://pdf.textfiles.com/academics/wilyhacker.pdf | ||
Cliff Stoll | Cliff Stoll may be known through The Portal due to his {{Klein Bottle}} company, {{Acme Klein Bottles}}, which is purportedly run out of a crawlspace under his house with the aid of some kind of a robotic lift, supplying blown glass {{Klein Bottles}} to many, including {{Eric Weinstein}} | ||
Cliff has also been known to appear on {{Numberphile}} | Cliff has also been known to appear on {{Numberphile}} | ||