ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Nightwork : A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262295758
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: NightworkDDC classification:
  • 378.744/4
LOC classification:
  • T171.M49 -- P48 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.