1. [n]  a Greek island west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
2. [n]  a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga

An Esprit project to put a "4th generation" object-oriented system to practical use in an industrial environment. The ITHACA environment offers an application support system incorporating advanced technologies in the fields of object-oriented programming, programming languages, database technologies, user interface systems and software development tools.