Leaders of the $50 million, five-year project at MIT included Michael Dertouzos, director of the Laboratory for Computer Science; … See more

"I felt that, we would know Athena was successful, if we were surprised by some of the applications, it turned out that our surprises were … See more

• Pixar Animation Studios, the computer graphics and animation company (then the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project, now owned by Walt … See more

In 1979 Dertouzos proposed to university president Jerome Wiesner that the university network mainframe computers for student use. At that time MIT used computers … See more

Athena continues in use as of 2023 , providing a ubiquitous computing platform for education at MIT; plans are to continue its use indefinitely. See more

Athena was not a research project, and the development of new models of computing was not a primary objective of the project. Indeed, … See more

• tkWWW, a defunct web browser developed for the project by Joseph Wang See more