Part 4 (2/2)

Even though Kotok and the several other hackers helping hira mentality that pervaded the e soing in an inforraest consumer of computer time The lead would bounce back and forth, and the white-shi+rt-and-black-tie 704 people were iroup touch the buttons and switches on the 704: rare sensual contact with a vaunted IBM beast

Kotok's role in bringing the chess program to life was indicative of as to becoence: a Heavy Head like McCarthy or like his colleague Marvin Minsky would begin a project or wonder aloud whether soht be possible, and the hackers, if it interested thera FORTRAN, one of the early colish than asses with fewer instructions; however, each tie like FORTRAN, the computer e A program called a compiler does this, and the co valuable space within the coe puts you an extra step away froenerally preferred asseant, ”higher-level”

languages like FORTRAN

Kotok, though, recognized that because of the huge amounts of nuraram would have to be done in FORTRAN, and part in asseenerators,”

basic data structures, and all kinds of innovative algorith the ave it some parameters by which to evaluate its position, consider various moves, and eous situation Kotok kept at it for years, the progra its IBM coathered to see the prograaht or so exchanges there was real trouble, with the computer about to be checkmated Everybody wondered how the co those pauses the co includedthe a predefined set of parameters to ultimately make a choice) Finally, the co over another piece A bug! But a clever one--it got the co out soorithm hich to conquer chess

At other universities, professors werepublic proclamations that co in chess

Hackers knew better They would be the ones ould guide cohts than anyone expected And the hackers, by fruitful, ful association with the co the beneficiaries

But they would not be the only beneficiaries Everyone could gain so computers in an intellectually automated world And wouldn't everyone benefit eventhe world with the same inquisitive intensity, skepticism toward bureaucracy, openness to creativity, unselfishness in sharing accoe to make improvements, and desire to build as those who followed the Hacker Ethic?

By accepting others on the same unprejudiced basis by which computers accepted anyone who entered code into a Flexowriter?

Wouldn't we benefit if we learned fro a perfect system? If EVERYONE could interact with computers with the same innocent, productive, creative ih society like a benevolent ripple, and coe the world for the better

In the monastic confines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, people had the freedom to live out this dreaest that the dreaht there at MIT, a hacker Xanadu the likes of which ht never be duplicated