''Tech Engineering News'' was a student-run publication at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern t ...
from 1920 to 1976.
It started as an advertising supplement for ''
The Tech'' in 1920, and its last issue was Volume 60 No. 1.
In 1952, it published two short stories by
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher ...
: ''The Brain'' (anthologized in
Groff Conklin
Edward Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904 – July 19, 1968) was an American science fiction anthologist. He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories (co-edited with physician Noah Fabricant), wrote books on home improvemen ...
's ''
Crossroads in Time
''Crossroads in Time'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Permabooks in November 1953. It has also been translated into Spanish.
The book collects eighteen novellas, ...
'') and ''The Miracle of the Broom Closet'' (reprinted the same year in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy fiction magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spiva ...
).
In 1965, ''Allan Gottlieb'' became the editor of the ''Puzzle Corner'', which was later then also carried by
Technology Review
''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "The" in ...
starting in 1966, and still running in 2015, for a fifty-year run.
In 1967, the magazine republished Martin Graetz' fantasy short story "''Building Nine"'' set at MIT.
Tech Engineering News
Volume 49, p. 263+ Graeltz was one of the developers of SpaceWar!
''Spacewar!'' is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Mas ...
, an early video game, while at MIT.
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