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It’s Not Simply Infrastructure: Tracy Futhey Talks about Networking and Innovation
6/21/2005
Q: You’ve been involved in significant network innovations. What
have you learned about the nature of innovation?
A: The most critical thing to me is tied to relationships with faculty.
In general in universities, in running our computing organizations, we don’t
take as great advantage as we might of our faculty’s experience and experimentation.
In terms of a strategy, I’m very big on the notion of working with faculty;
meeting with faculty in your computer science and engineering departments, in
your school of medicine, in art, in any domain, and understanding what capabilities
they need, or maybe what capabilities they themselves may be creating. That’s
the key to innovation: viewing technology not as simply infrastructure, but
as the gateway that can help provide faculty and students with advanced capabilities.
It’s not one-size-fits-all. There’s got to be collaboration and
connection with the academic units, and with the faculty in particular, to understand
capabilities and needs, and design around them.
Tracy Futhey will discuss “Technology Initiatives to Move the Campus Forward” in a keynote at Syllabus2005, July 24-28 in Los Angeles.
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