Al Gore MIT commencement buzzword bingo hack

Brief MIT-culture anecdote in the middle of the MMT hype narrative; characterizes Gore's relationship to MIT technology promotion. Sloan students distributed buzzword bingo cards as graduates entered; Secret Service tipped off Gore.

Al Gore, who was vice president of the United States and the technology guru, called it "a shining example of American engineering know-how and business know-how." Does anyone know about when Al Gore was the commencement speaker at MIT? The Sloan students got together — and I was on the stand at graduation, where the faculty sit — and we didn't know what was going on. But every student, as they marched in, Sloan students were handing them buzzword bingo. Everyone had a buzzword bingo sheet that had a bunch of buzzwords like internet, technology-driven, or something like that. Whenever Al Gore in his commencement address used the word "internet," you could cross off that buzzword bingo square. And if you actually got bingo — everything in a row — you were supposed to raise your sheet in the air.