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
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