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Nightwork : A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT.
Title:
Nightwork : A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT.
Author:
Peterson, Institute Historian T. F.
ISBN:
9780262295758
Physical Description:
1 online resource (243 pages)
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.
Abstract:
A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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