Tech Engineering News

{{Short description|MIT Student publication from 1920 to 1976}}

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Tech Engineering News was a student-run publication at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1920 to 1976.[https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-ac/ac553.html Guide to the Records of Tech Engineering News AC.0553][https://books.google.com/books?id=7Wk3AQAAMAAJ&dq=mit+%22tech+engineering+news%22&pg=PA228 The Tech Engineering News] First issue: February 1920

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: The Brain (anthologized in Groff Conklin's Crossroads in Time) and The Miracle of the Broom Closet (reprinted the same year in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction).[http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wiener_norbert Wiener, Norbert] The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction[https://books.google.com/books?id=GrI6yaK90EcC&dq=%22tech+engineering+news%22+%22science+fiction%22&pg=PA410 Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics] Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman; Basic Books, Apr 1, 2009 pp. 288, 388, 410

In 1965, Allan Gottlieb became the editor of the Puzzle Corner, which was later then also carried by Technology Review starting in 1966, and still running in 2015, for a fifty-year run.[http://www.technologyreview.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fmagazine%2Fmitnews%2Fpuzzlecorner%2FJF15MITPuzzleCorner.pdf&ei=hY8JVbuhDIKiNrm-hKgJ&usg=AFQjCNEM7jvjSJM0aIAg7i5vLslxV6iAVQ&sig2=foQz2uPp_NwW74iG9p8bdg&bvm=bv.88198703,d.eXY Puzzle Corner 50th Anniversary - Technology Review 2015]

In 1967, the magazine republished Martin Graetz' fantasy short story "Building Nine" set at MIT.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ruQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22building+nine%22+%22science+fiction%22+graetz Tech Engineering News] Volume 49, p. 263+ Graeltz was one of the developers of SpaceWar!, an early video game, while at MIT.