Ronald L. Orcutt
ABSTRACT
An overview of the evolution and current status of MIT's Project Athena is presented. Athena's distributed workstation computing system is described, and its attributes of coherence and ubiquity are critiqued. A summary is given of Athena's 125 curriculum development experiments including their diverse nature, the challenges of courseware development and delivery, and indications of effectiveness. Athena is described from a student's viewpoint. Finally, various lessons learned from running a large scale campus computing project are summarized.
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- Perspectives on Project Athena
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