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Nightwork : A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT.

Peterson, Institute Historian T. F.

Nightwork : A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (243 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Campus Map -- Introduction/Hacking 1.000H -- Hack, Hacker, Hacking -- Hacking Into the New Millennium -- Where No Cow Has Gone Before -- Auto Industry -- Domework -- Intriguing Hacks to Fascinate People -- Greener Pastures -- Making an Entrance -- All Mondays Should Be So Beautiful -- Form + Function = Hack -- Campus Commentary -- A Sign of the Times -- The Numbers Game -- Beyond Recognition -- Object Lessons -- Worth a Thousand Words -- Teaching a Nation to Make Snow -- Please Wait to Be Served -- When MIT Won the Harvard-Yale Game -- Because It's There -- Zen and the Art of Hacking -- Glossary of MIT Vernacular -- Sources -- Photo Credits -- Index of Hacks.

A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.

9780262295758


Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- History.
Student activities -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History.
College students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Humor.
College wit and humor.


Electronic books.

T171.M49 -- P48 2011eb

378.744/4

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