A Construction Set for Multimedia Applications
IEEE Software
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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.