Hacking X for Y

[ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS

made publicly available about each user. This information

(the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could

fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were

always combined into a project description of the form

"Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky"").

This form of description became traditional and has since been

carried over to other systems with more general facilities for

self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).

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