Hacker (programmer subculture)
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster · Alpha Press eBooks · 2010
In one of several meanings of the word in computing, a hacker is a member of the computer programmer subculture originated in the 1960s in the United States academia, in particular around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Nowadays, this subculture is mainly associated with the free software movement.