Conceived of as an in-depth cinematic case study of urban change before during and after the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, the interactive video disc version of the film as delivered on a Project Athena workstation in 1987 invited students to view the movie based on a particular story thread or character and allowed students to edit material from the film and place it into their written papers.
Additionally, while technical director of Project Athena, he was supportive of the development of the X Window System, an open windowing system, still used and developed to this day on Linux and UNIX.
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From 1984 through 1988 he served as Technical Director of MIT Project Athena.
Before turning pro as a journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at MIT, where he worked on Project Athena, and at several Internet-related startup companies in Silicon Valley.
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