History of Hydra

	Revision 8 . . (edit) December 4, 2001 11:03 am by Vicki Rosenzweig
	Revision 7 . . November 22, 2001 2:00 pm by Bryan Derksen [more information about the greek monster]
	Revision 6 . . October 28, 2001 3:25 pm by Sjc

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In Greek mythology, the Hydra is the many-headed serpent which Heracles defeated.

In Greek mythology, the Hydra is the many-headed serpent which Heracles defeated. It had the unusual property that whenever one of its heads was severed, two new heads immediately sprouted from the stump; Heracles overcame this by immediately cauterizing the stump with a torch. The term "Hydra" is often used today when referring to a problem that seems to share this sort of characteristic, for example when attempts to suppress a particular piece of information result in it being disseminated even more widely.

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Hydra is also the name of a distributed operating system developed at Carnegie Melon University.

Hydra is also the name of a distributed operating system developed at [Carnegie Mellon University]?.