Nightwork
A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
$62.38
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2011
Summary
A lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.An MIT “hack” is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke, often requiring engineering or scientific expertise and often pulled off under cover of darkness-instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding with April Fool’s Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not be confused with the sometimes non-benign phenomenon of computer hacking.) Noteworthy MIT h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262515849 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262515849 |
| Author: | Institute Historian T.F. Peterson, Eric Bender |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Edition: | Updated ed |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 703g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 203mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Nightwork |
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Nightwork. .. shows that students just want to have fun, especially engineering and technology students.
Nightwork. .. shows that students just want to have fun, especially engineering and technology students.
* Publishers Weekly *A reminder that it is up to each generation to go where no man has gone before.
* The New York Sun *About The Author
Institute Historian T.F. Peterson
Institute Historian T. F. Peterson has spent many years lurking in the corridors of MIT picking up gossip and monitoring hacks in progress.
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