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).