Hacking X for Y: n. [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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