{"id":2493,"date":"2011-03-28T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2011-03-27T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T16:42:40","slug":"jay-keyser-interviewed-on-wgbh-re-mit-hacking-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/03\/28\/jay-keyser-interviewed-on-wgbh-re-mit-hacking-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Keyser interviewed on WGBH re MIT hacking culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay Keyser was interviewed last week on the Callie Crossley Show on WGBH. Full audio of the 24 minute interview is available on the show’s website<\/a>. Here’s a direct link to the mp3 stream.<\/a><\/p>\n

The show’s description:<\/p>\n

>The history of hacks and pranks at MIT dates back almost as far as the venerable institution itself. Students with expertise in engineering, computer science, robotics, and math — and presumably with a little extra time and brainpower to spare — have taken pranksterism to the level of high art. Their hijinks have included a firetruck, police cruiser, and biplane replica, alternately hoisted atop MIT’s Great Dome; a fully appointed room — including a billiards table, a cat, chairs, and an illuminated lamp — hung upside down from the Media Lab; numerous interruptions staged during the annual Harvard - Yale football game; and a cross-country hacking war with rival institution, Caltech. MIT Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser, has seen a lot of it in his time, and he’ll talk about the school’s secret hacking society, the best hacks, and why bright students at a world-class institution can still find time to put one over on faculty.<\/p>\n

Mentioned during the interview is Jay’s forthcoming new book: Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jay Keyser was interviewed last week on the Callie Crossley Show on WGBH. Full audio of the 24 minute interview is available on the show’s website. Here’s a direct link to the mp3 stream. The show’s description: >The history of hacks and pranks at MIT dates back almost as far as the venerable institution itself. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}