What is Project Athena?
'''Project Athena''' was a joint project of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], and [[IBM]]. It was launched in [[1983]], and [[research]] and [[development]] continued until [[June 30]], [[1991]], eight years after it began. It is widely believed that the goals were to create a computing environment that would utilize up to 1,000 [[workstation]]s but in fact, the goal was to improve the [[quality]] of [[education]] delivered by the [[University|Institute]]. The concept that a user could go to any workstation and access any [[Computer file|files]] or [[Computer program|applications]] without finding major differences in the user interface and service, just like browsing the [[Internet]] today. The project created many [[technology|technologies]] that are widely used today, such as the [[X Window System]] and [[Kerberos (protocol)|Kerberos]]. == References == * Treese, G. Winfield, [http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/ATHENA/usenix/athena_changes.PS Berkeley UNIX on 1000 Workstations: Athena Changes to 4.3 BSD]{{Dead link|date=December 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''USENIX Association'', February 1988. * Arfman, J. M.; Roden, Peter. [http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/313/ibmsj3103I.pdf Project Athena: Supporting distributed computing at MIT] ''IBM Systems Journal'' Volume 31, Number 3, 1992. * Champine, George (1991). ''MIT Project Athena: A Model for Distributed Campus Computing'', Digital Press, {{ISBN|1-55558-072-6}}. * Avril, C. R.; Orcutt, Ron L. Athena: MIT's Once and Future Distributed Computing Project, ''Information Technology Quarterly'' (Fall 1990). * Athena at MIT (mit.edu) [http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/athena/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220221006/http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/athena/ |date=2008-12-20 }} == Other websites== * [http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/athena/ Athena at MIT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117042518/http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/athena/ |date=2