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Nightwork : a history of hacks and pranks at MIT / T.F. Peterson ; with a new essay by Eric Bender.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, T. F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Student activities--Massachusetts--Cambridge--History.
- Student activities.
- College students--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Humor.
- College students.
- College wit and humor.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology--History.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 232 p. : ill. (chiefly col), col. map.
- Edition:
- Updated ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Published in association with the MIT Museum."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11921-8
- 9786613119216
- 0-262-29575-X
- OCLC:
- 923252349
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