Might as well learn an important concept from the original authors (the article does link to this paper): Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet
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[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/chord_sigco...
[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/chord:sigcomm01/chord_sigco...
Read a book that had a section on him (and pg) written before they founded Viaweb. http://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Fro...
Also, there are two Robert Morris, rtm, and his dad who also has a wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_%28cryptographer%...