Discussion
Who among the following coined the term 'Computer Virus' ?
Answer: A
The term 'computer virus' was coined by Fred Cohen.
Fred Cohen, then a graduate student, used the term in his 1983-84 research on self-replicating programs, defining a virus as a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a copy of itself. His adviser Leonard Adleman is credited with suggesting the name.
David A. Huffman devised Huffman coding for data compression, Jim Gray was a pioneer of database transaction processing, and Brendan Eich created the JavaScript language.
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