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 file}s).

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {finger}{hack}{plan file}]