And there was the incident when the security people in charge of M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence laboratory had to ask one of the hackers to crack a safe that had been acquired precisely to secure certain informationįrom the hackers, who regarded any secret as an insult to their ingenuity.Ī remarkable spirit of fun and adventure prevailed at M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence lab in the 1950's, and Steven Levy has captured it alive in the opening section of his ''Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.'' student programmed a computer to figure out a route by which someone could ride the entire New York City subway system on a single token, and then a bunch of his fellow students went out and actuallyĭid it. There was the Great Subway Hack, in which an M.I.T. They lived in the world of hackers, a mere extension of the incredible computer environment. None of the computer specialists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology cheered Intelligence named Herbert Dreyfus, who had bluntly asserted that no computer program would ever be able to beat even a 10-year- old. There was the great chess showdown of 1965, when MacHack won a chess game against a critic of artificial HACKERS: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. December 24, 1984, Monday, Late City Final Edition
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