Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. xi, 178 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Published in association with the MIT Museum. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "The MIT hacking culture has given us such treasures as police cars and cows on the Great Dome and a disappearing door to the President's office. 'Nightwork' includes material from two previous books published by the MIT Museum and new materials on recent hacks." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Jane Pickering, Director, MIT Museum; Introduction, by Institute historian T. F. Peterson; 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, by Charles M. Vest; Door man, by Richard Feynman; It's not a job, it's an adventure, by David Barber; The great breast of knowledge, by Brian Leibowitz; Mastery over the physical world: Demonstrative and pedagogical value of the MIT hack, by Andre DeHon; Where the sun shines, there hack they, by Samuel Jay Keyser; Engineering in action, by Eri Izawa; Why we hack, by Anonymous; Glossary of MIT vernacular; Sources; Photo credits.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.