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Jackson, G. (1991) Conclusion Project Athena in the Evolution of Academic Computing at MIT. In C. Avril (Ed.), Windows on Athena: Vol. 2: Project Athena's Curriculum Development Projects...And Beyond. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
"The Project Athena experiment embodied technological, pedagogical, and organizational
questions: What does it take to design, implement, and operate a fully distributed,
coherent, vendor-independent, academic computing environment for a university?
How do faculty use such an environment educationally, and which of these uses prove
effective? Who should manage the environment, support faculty and student users,
and provide appropriate incentives and financing for academic computing to flourish?
Like all experiments, Project Athena also sought to identify unrecognized issues, costs,
and benefits surrounding advanced academic computing." (Jackson, G., 1991)
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