MIT Project Athena. A Model for Distributed Campus Computing by George Champine

By George Champine

A hands-on account of the layout, implementation, and function of venture Athena.

according to millions of pages of stories and the author's personal adventure, this significant publication helps you to in at the layout, implementation, and function of venture Athena - now a creation procedure of networked workstations that's exchanging time-sharing (which MIT additionally pioneered) because the hottest version of computing at MIT. The ebook is prepared in 4 components, protecting administration, pedagogy, expertise, and management. Appendixes describe deployment of venture Athena structures at 5 different colleges, offer guidance for install, and suggest end-user policies.

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By George Champine

A hands-on account of the layout, implementation, and function of venture Athena.

according to millions of pages of stories and the author's personal adventure, this significant publication helps you to in at the layout, implementation, and function of venture Athena - now a creation procedure of networked workstations that's exchanging time-sharing (which MIT additionally pioneered) because the hottest version of computing at MIT. The ebook is prepared in 4 components, protecting administration, pedagogy, expertise, and management. Appendixes describe deployment of venture Athena structures at 5 different colleges, offer guidance for install, and suggest end-user policies.

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Achieving it required efforts directed toward three major subgoals: 1. fostering and supporting innovative uses of computing in education by the M I T faculty; 2. designing and implementing a new computing environment to serve MIT's educational needs well into the 1990s; and 3. constructing and operating a computational facility distributed across the M I T campus of sufficient scale to make educational computing an accessible utility. The main strategy adopted to meet the first subgoal of encouraging the innovative uses of computing in the M I T curriculum was to draw on the traditional source of innovation within the university: the faculty.

Thus institutions had to develop their o w n . Since then, instructional software has been developed faster for personal computers than for workstations, although in many instances the instructional software available for workstations is much more sophisticated. The Computer's R o l e in Education Computers have been used in higher education since soon after their invention with varying degrees of success. Although they have failed to live up to claims or expectations for improved quality, quantity, or cost of education, computers are n o w used at all levels in education.

After a detailed review of the current status of the project and the nature of the task that lay ahead, Saltzer initiated a design of the complete system. Equally important, he stopped some software projects, relying on the industry to provide acceptable solutions. Digital was made generally responsible for the system software, and IBM was made generally responsible for applications software. Reevaluation of priorities resulted in termination of the distributed file system and the R P C and emphasized the authentication server.

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