Hacker culture, and especially the artificial intelligence community at MIT, have invented a number of humorous short stories dubbed hacker koans about computer science; most of these are recorded in an appendix to the Jargon File, where they are called AI Koans. Most do not fit the strict religious definition of koans, but they do tend to follow the form of being short, enigmatic, and of often having a "punchline".
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/A-I koh'anz/ pl.n. A series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture (several are included under Some AI koans. See also ha ha only serious , mu , and hacker humor .
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