The CECI is an MIT-wide research center devoted to studying the application of computational and communication technologies on education.

From 1983 to 1988, Professor Lerman directed Project Athena. This project developed a campus-wide distributed system of advanced computer workstations at MIT. Athena's facilities span the entire MIT campus, providing computational support for the MIT curriculum. The project uses grants of hardware, software, maintenance and staff support from Digital Equipment Corporation and IBM. It also includes a multi-million dollar program of support for the faculty and students of MIT to undertake the development of a new generation of educational software to be used at MIT.

Since joining the MIT faculty, Prof. Lerman has served as the Head of the Transportation Systems Division, the Head of the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory. He is a member of both the Management Board of the MIT Press and the Board of Directors of Cambridge Systematics, Inc.

He is the author of two books and numerous journal articles. His computer methods textbook Introduction to Computation and Problem Solving for Scientists and Engineers was published by Prentice Hall.

Steven R. Lerman received his Bachelors, Masters and Ph. D. degrees from MIT in 1972, 1973 and 1975 respectively. His undergraduate degree is in Civil Engineering, and both his graduate degrees are in the area of transportation systems. He was appointed to the MIT faculty in 1975, and he is now a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 1994 Prof. Lerman was also appointed as a Professor II at the University of Bergen in Norway. He has been a Visiting International Professor at the Universidad Gabriela Mistral in Santiago, Chile since 1993.

More information is available in his cv.