who developed the first academic papers on computer viruses
Antivirus software In 1983, the term "computer virus" was coined by Fred Cohen in one of the first ever published academic papers on computer viruses.[13] Cohen used the term "computer virus" to describe a program that: "affect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved) copy of itself."[14] (note that a more recent, and precise, definition of computer virus has been given by the Hungarian security researcher Péter Szőr: "a code that recursively replicates a possibly evolved copy of itself"[15][16])