Skip to content ↓

Museum plans new book on hacks

The MIT Museum is accepting submissions of photographs, anecdotes and articles about hacking for a sequel to its popular book on hacking, The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, TomFoolery, and Pranks at MIT. The new book, entitled Is This the Way to Baker House?, will include first-hand accounts of old and new hacks and a section documenting hacks that have taken place since the original book was published in 1990.

Submissions may be 200-2,000 words. Deadline for all submissions is Friday, May 31. The book is scheduled to be published in October 1996. For further information, contact Cate MacKinnon at the MIT Museum, x3-4462, . Submissions may also be sent to her at the Museum, Rm N52-200.


A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 1, 1996.

Related Topics

More MIT News

Globular blue and white orbs "examining" single-stranded RNA products and marking them with green checks or red x's

Why are some bacterial genes high in purines?

In certain species of bacteria, the answer lies in shielding RNA transcripts from a quality-control factor called Rho. Understanding the requirements for expressible sequences is critical for expression engineering of therapeutic agents.

Read full story

Rich Nielsen, Volha Charnysh, Kevin Dorst, and Emily Richmond Pollock seated at a table, talking

Building a scholarly community

The SHASS Faculty Fellows Program, administered by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, is fostering new research projects and creating space for supportive and interdisciplinary discussion.

Read full story