Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is considered the first computer virus to be found "in the wild." Skrenta graduated from Northwestern University. Between 1989 and 1991 he worked at Commodore Business Machines with Amiga Unix. Wikipedia
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Rich Skrenta, CEO of Topix.net Topix.net is taking on the large news aggregators with their concept driven search engine that features over 150,000 subjects. www.npost.com/interview.jsp?intID=INT00102
