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讲者：
Samuel Jay Keyser
Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
Special Assistant to the Chancellor
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关于本次演讲：
Even if the typical MIT hacker doesn't qualify as a secret agent, he or she is to be admired for pulling off the collegiate world's most surreptitious, elegant pranks, believes
Jay Keyser. While Harvard students get a chuckle out of "putting panties over statues," MIT students have placed a telephone booth and a police cruiser on top of the massive MIT dome, and landed and then safely exploded a weather balloon on the field of a Harvard-Yale game. Keyser is a fan of these generally anonymous and extremely clever technical pranks. And he's burrowed into the psychology behind them. The students "are thumbing their nose at the Institute. ou want us to be engineers. You'e so damn hard on us. We'll show you what we think of you.' So they take us down a peg or two." In fact, "hack culture is an important component of the mental health of the MIT student body," Keyser claims. The difference between MIT and every other university, he says, is that MIT students "have bought into the value system of the university." They'e under the constant burden of judgment and struggle every day with the knowledge that they'e among the best and the brightest. So hacks are "a coping mechanism, a way of putting on sunglasses on a very bright summer day."
关于讲者：
Samuel Jay Keyser is professor emeritus of linguistics and holder of the Peter de Florez chair emeritus at MIT. He was associate provost for institute life from 1986 through 1994 and came by his experience with hacking through his many roles at MIT, including his tenure as housemaster of Senior House.
Keyser's most recent book is The Pond God, published by Front Street Books
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关于影片（影片时间索引）：影片长度为 1:00:51.
Diane Tavitian, MITAC Coordinator, introduces Jay Keyser.
At 2:28, Keyser begins.
At 49:30, Keyser invites audience Q&A.
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| |  | | Jay Keyser is the author of the essay "Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They" from NightWork, by Institute Historian T.F. Peterson, MIT Press 2003
MIT Press
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以上资料为本影片上传至 MITWORLD 网站上当时所获知的资讯。此影片上传日为： 2005-12-11.
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