NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Project Athena

Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. It was launched in 1983, and research and development ran through June 30, 1991, eight years after it began. The goals were to create a computing environment that would scale up to 10,000 workstations (like VAX) and accommodate heterogeneous hardware, yet be "coherent". This concept meant that a user could go to any workstation and access any files or applications without finding major differences in the user interface and service delivery, just like browsing the Internet today. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ... Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... VAX is a 32-bit computing architecture that supports an orthogonal instruction set (machine language) and virtual addressing (i. ...

The project spawned many technologies that are widely used today, such as the X Window System and Kerberos. Amongst the other technologies developed for Project Athena were the Xaw widget set, Zephyr Notification Service, the first Instant Messaging service, and the Hesiod name and directory service. KDE 3. ... Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol which allows individuals communicating over an insecure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. ... Xaw is short for the Athena Widget Set. ... Widget is a general-purpose term, or placeholder name, for any unspecified device, including those that have not yet been invented. ... Created at MIT, as part of Project Athena, Zephyr was designed as an instant messenger protocol and application-suite with a heavy Unix background. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface An instant messenger is a client which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ... In computing, the Hesiod name service originated in Project Athena (1983 - 1991). ...

The X Window System originated as a joint project of Project Athena and MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, and was used by Athena. KDE 3. ... Project MAC, later the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), was a research laboratory at MIT. Project MAC would become famous for groundbreaking research in operating systems, artificial intelligence, and the theory of computation. ...

Pixar, the computer generated animation company, used most of the first fifty Project Athena systems before they went into general use rendering The Adventures of André and Wally B.. Pixar Animation Studios is an award-winning American computer-generated imagery (CGI) animation firm based in Emeryville, California (USA). ... from The Adventures of AndrÃ© and Wally B., a short film animated by John Lasseter The Adventures of AndrÃ© and Wally B. is an animated short made in 1984 by the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project, which would later be spun out as a startup company called Pixar. ...

Iowa State runs an implementation of Athena named 'Project Vincent', named after John Vincent Atanasoff the inventor of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. ... John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 â€“ June 15, 1995) was a prominent computer engineer of Bulgarian origin. ... Diagram of the ABC pointing out its various components The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, constructed in the basement of the The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the first electronic digital computer [1] [2] and was a major step in the history of computing . ...

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	Academics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seal This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ...	Broad Institute • Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory • Lincoln Laboratory • Media Lab • OpenCourseWare • Sloan School of Management The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, formerly the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research (WICGR), is a multidisciplinary institution dedicated to fulfilling the potential of genomics for the biomedical sciences. ... MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL, is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formed on July 1, 2003 by the merger of MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. ... MIT Lincoln Laboratory, also known as Lincoln Lab, is a federally funded research and development center managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded by the United States Department of Defense. ... The Wiesner Buildings Atrium The MIT Media Lab in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology engages in education and research in the digital technology used for expression and communication. ... MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from MITs undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, free and openly available to anyone, anywhere, by the year 2007. ... The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT Sloan is one of the worlds leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic management, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, supply...
	Culture	Alumni • Faculty • Presidents • Athena • Brass Rat • Hacks • IHTFP • The Tech This is a list of famous individuals associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including graduates, former students, and professors. ... This is a list of famous individuals associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including graduates, former students, and professors. ... The ring is worn Beaver down until graduation The class ring of MIT, often called the Brass Rat, is crafted each year by a student committee to present a unique, yet traditional expression of their school experience. ... An MIT hack is defined as a clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... IHTFP is an abbreviation which makes up part of the folklore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Front page of The Tech, issue of January 18, 2006 The Tech, first published in 1881, is the oldest and largest campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the first newspaper to be published online. ...
	Buildings	Chapel • Green Building • Infinite Corridor • Kresge Auditorium • Stata Center • Graduate Residences • Undergraduate Residences Exterior. ... Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... The Infinite Corridor is the hallway, 251 meters (825 feet) long, that runs through the main building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Kresge Auditorium from rear, looking toward I. M. Peis Green Building. ... Stata Center Building 32 at Night The Ray and Maria Stata Center is a 430,000-ftÂ² (40,000 mÂ²) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... This is a list of the graduate dorms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... // This is a list of the undergraduate dorms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

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