(Ebook) Nightwork A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT 1st Edition by Institute Historian T F Peterson ISBN 0262515849 9780262515849

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(Ebook) Nightwork A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT 1st Edition by Institute Historian T F Peterson ISBN 0262515849 9780262515849

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ISBN 10: 0262515849
ISBN 13: 9780262515849
Author: Institute Historian T F Peterson

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 hacks over the years include the legendary Harvard–Yale Football Game Hack (when a weather balloon emblazoned “MIT” popped out of the ground near the 50-yard line), the campus police car found perched on the Great Dome, the apparent disappearance of the Institute president's office, and a faux cathedral (complete with stained glass windows, organ, and wedding ceremony) in a lobby. Hacks are by their nature ephemeral, although they live on in the memory of both perpetrators and spectators. Nightwork, drawing on the MIT Museum's unique collection of hack-related photographs and other materials, describes and documents the best of MIT's hacks and hacking culture. This generously illustrated updated edition has added coverage of such recent hacks as the cross-country abduction of rival Caltech's cannon (a prank requiring months of planning, intricate choreography, and last-minute improvisation), a fire truck on the Dome that marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and numerous pokes at the celebrated Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, and even a working solar-powered Red Line subway car on the Great Dome. Hacks have been said to express the essence of MIT, providing, as alumnus Andre DeHon observes, "an opportunity to demonstrate creativity and know-how in mastering the physical world." What better way to mark the 150th anniversary of MIT's founding than to commemorate its native ingenuity with this new edition of Nightwork?

(Ebook) Nightwork A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT 1st Table of contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Where No Cow Has Gone Before: Accessing the Inaccessible

Hack, Hacker, Hacking

Auto Industry: The Great Vehicle Hacks

Hacking Ethics

Domework: Hacking the Domes

Dome as Dais

Greener Pastures: The Green Building Hacks

Greenspeak Spoken Here

Intriguing Hacks to Fascinate People

Making an Entrance: The Lobby 7 Hacks

Father Tool's Grand Tour

Under the Dome

"All Mondays Should Be So Beautiful": The Art of Hacking Art

U.S.S. Tetazoo

No Knife

Why Ruin the Atrium?

Green Eggs and Hair

Form + Function = Hack: The Architecture Hacks

A Guide for New Employees: Building History and Numbering System

Hacking as Campus Commentary: The Editorial Hacks

A Sign of the Times: Hacking with Signs and Banners

The Numbers Game: Hackers Reinvent Measurement

Recalculating the Infinite Corridor

Beyond Recognition: Commemoration Hacks

Object Lessons: Hacks in the Classroom

Why Sleep Through a Class When You Can Hack It?

Worth a Thousand Words: Hacks Fit to Print

That VooDoo That You Do

Teaching a Nation to Make Snow: Hoax Hacks

"Please Wait to Be Served": The Performance Hacks

When MIT Won the Harvard-Yale Game: Hacking Harvard

Student Leaders at MIT Claim Harvard as Colony

The John Harvard Hacks

Because It's There: The Best of the Rest

Hacking by Mail

Zen and the Art of Hacking: The Essays

The Case of the Disappearing President's Office

Door Man

It's Not a Job, It's an Adventure

The Great Breast of Knowledge

Mastery over the Physical World: Demonstrative and Pedagogical Value of the MIT Hack

Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They

Engineering in Action

Why We Hack

Glossary of MIT Vernacular

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