The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) is a student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Historically, it has been a wellspring...
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Peter Samson (section The Tech Model Railroad Club)
He wrote, with characteristic wit, the first editions of the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) dictionary, a predecessor to the Jargon File. He appears...
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often powerful enough to haul dozens of human passengers. The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) at MIT in the 1950s pioneered automatic control of track-switching...
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edition of MIT's Tech Engineering News. The use of foo in a programming context is generally credited to the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) of MIT from...
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edition published 1996). The concept of the file began with the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) that came out of early TX-0 and PDP-1 hackers in the 1950s...
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the staging grounds for early hackers, as MIT students from the Tech Model Railroad Club sneaked inside the EAM room after hours to attempt programming...
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provided permanent rooms for official Institute clubs and groups, including the Tech Model Railroad Club and the MIT Electronic Research Society (MITERS)...
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1960s around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Hacking originally...
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filtering, and transformation. The term was coined in 1958 in the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1960 the backronym...
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1960s around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The concept...
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frequenting the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the 1959 edition of the club's dictionary, it was...
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interface for programmers debugging their programs. Members of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club, "the very first hackers at MIT", reveled in the interactivity...
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open philosophy lives on today. Dennis was also a member of the Tech Model Railroad Club, which incubated much of the early slang and traditions of hacking...
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famous for his involvement with Spacewar. Saunders joined the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) led by Alan Kotok, Peter Samson, and himself. They then...
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Wysopal (Weld Pond) Robert Willis YTCracker Peiter Zatko (Mudge) Tech Model Railroad Club List of computer criminals List of fictional hackers List of hacker...
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Vegas". ABC News. 2003-09-12. Retrieved 10 February 2024. The Twenty One Club: The annual blackjack ball hosts Gambling's Most Furtive (and Quirky) Fraternity...
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traces developments in the history of hacking, beginning with The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, whose members were among the first hackers. He discusses...
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created and designed Spacewar!, with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working on...
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skipped two grades before college. At MIT, he became a member of the Tech Model Railroad Club, and after enrolling in MIT's first freshman programming class...
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Institute of Technology, with the first written use from a club at MIT called the Tech Model Railroad Club. List of U.S. government and military acronyms List...
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the Tech Model Railroad Club (located in Building N52) had years earlier added a scale model of the Green Building to its HO scale model railroad layout...
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the field of cognitive science. Building 20 was the home of the Tech Model Railroad Club, where many aspects of what later became the hacker culture developed...
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of the Technology Club of N.Y. Lester Gardner (SB, 1898) explained the decision: We first thought of the kangaroo which like Tech, goes forward in leaps...
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archives. History of computers History of computer science Spacewar! Tech Model Railroad Club Timeline of computing "Early Computers at Stanford". Stanford University...
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obstructions at the eastern end of the Infinite Corridor. A campus newspaper, The Tech, has published etiquette and viewing suggestions for first-time observers...
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Has Grown from an Experiment to an Impressive, Ubiquitous Network". The Tech. p. 6. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October...
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Project Athena Smoot Student Information Processing Board Tech Model Railroad Club Tech Squares The Tech Traditions and activities Campus Building 20 Campus...
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Guerrilla art List of practical joke topics Roof and tunnel hacking Tech Model Railroad Club "These Are Not Your Ordinary College Pranks". C. Boston Globe....
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original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019. "US sanctions 8 China tech companies over role in Xinjiang abuses". The Nikkei. Reuters. October 8,...
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journalistic pieces highlighting novel projects. Other publications include "Tech Notes", brief descriptions of Laboratory capabilities and technical achievements;...
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