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Steering Committee CITIE
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Steering Committee Minutes
CITIE Steering Committee Meeting Agenda Members in attendance: David Brady, Mike Baptiste, Roger Loyd,
David Ferriero, Roger Wolpert, Pat Thibodeau, Jocelyn Bailey
for Landen Bain, Ginny Cake, Jen Vizas, Lee Willard Announcements and review of minutes In reviewing the minutes, Mike Pickett noted that during the last meeting with Provost Lange, quite a bit of time was spent discussing faculty access and Blackboard. The question of should faculty opt out or opt into Blackboard was discussed. The Provost was on the side of letting faculty opt in and not forcing participation on anybody. ISIS Program (Information Science & Information Studies)
Mike Pickett introduced Eddie Shanken and explained that Eddie is the Director of the ISIS Program. ISIS is a new strategic initiative supported by the Office of the Provost. The vision of the program is to analyze the roles and functions of information technologies; apply these technologies to rethink models of teaching and learning; support cutting-edge research and collaborative problem solving; and to contribute to bettering human conditions locally and globally. There are two advisory boards - Faculty Advisory Board and Faculty and Staff Consultants. The Faculty Advisory Board includes Alan Biermann, David Brady, Paul Conway, Cathy Davidson, Paul Jones, Seymour Mauskopf, Ellen Mickiewicz, Kenneth Rogerson, Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, Edward Shanken, James Siedow, Sim Sitkin, Brian Cantwell Smith, and Robert Wolpert. The Faculty and Staff Consultants include James Boyle, Yale Fineman, Gary Gereffi, Lynne O'Brien, Mark Olson, Mike Pickett, Kathy Silbiger, John Taormina, and Daniel Vallero. The Faculty Co-Directors include Scott Lindroth and Richard Lucic. There are three central components to the ISIS program - Certificate Program, Research Center, and Partnerships and Outreach. ISIS Research Center's mission is to enhance intellectual and technological resources for IS and IS research at Duke; support collaborative experimental faculty and student research; develop partnerships with industry, government, and other institutions internationally; and to organize real and virtual symposia, workshops, events.. The goal of the research center is to facilitate transnational networking, collaboration, and research for innovation, interdisciplinary solutions to local, regional, and global issues. ISIS Certificate Program's mission is to complement traditional disciplinary training with focus on IT; join theory and practice in collaborations parallel to professional research contexts; and consider social implications of emerging technologies while developing them. The goal of the certificate program is to cultivate a generation of hybrid scientists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and artists to build the future responsibly. ISIS Partnerships and Outreach's mission is to develop corporate support for cutting edge faculty and student research; collaborate with corporate, govern- mental. And public interest groups to develop innovative approaches to and application of IT; actively address community concerns. Some of the current programs include ISIS Student Internships, Digital Divide, Elderly, At-Risk Teens, Rogers-Herr, SET, RTP.net ISIS Certificate Timeline Courses will be project oriented and interdisciplinary in nature. Students will work with faculty across the campus to "create something." November 2001 - first Faculty Advisory Board meeting ISIS Projects Visit the ISIS website for a detailed listing of the existing projects and upcoming programs - www.duke.edu/web/isis Free Space - upcoming collaboration. The role ISIS is playing is creating a symposium to compliment the performances. The symposium will involve participation of local and remote participants. Mike Pickett commented that ISIS is setting the stage of innovative exploration and asked how we could help. Lee Willard suggested that ISIS look into the current undergraduate structures to help become institutionalized. This will help add to the visibility and connect into the existing structure. Recommended Eddie contact the Office of Undergraduate Research. Robert Wolpert explained that realistically ISIS is intended to be "ahead of the pack." Mike Pickett asked how can we communicate this program widely? There is infrastructure in place that can help connect the ISIS staff, faculty, and students. David Ferriero asked if there are some ISIS offerings currently in place? He asked about the program Paul Conway is teaching every Tuesday night. Mike Pickett explained that there are 50-60 courses already being taught that might feed into the ISIS program. Eddie noted that the students in these courses might be able to receive retroactive credit for ISIS. Eddie explained that the ISIS program would be periodically reviewed to make sure the program continues to be a worthwhile program. An indicator of success would be that ISIS is no longer necessary or that it evolves into a different program - stays on the cutting edge. Mike Pickett provided an update on the mass storage project. A number of interesting changes have taken place in the last few weeks. One of the premier pilots of the program is the Brain Imaging Center. We've have seen more people interested in the program than what was originally thought. The configuration of the original pilot project. Includes 3.5 terabytes of disk storage. Information rarely used is migrated off to 43 terabytes of near-line tape storage and when someone needs access to the information the tape robot unloads the appropriate information off the tape. The technology is working fairly well but we needed a way to make the mass storage available to researchers and allow the sharing of the data. IBM suggested a software application - SANergy. It is smart enough to distribute data and acts as a file cop but not smart enough to handle security so we had to put software between the two that handled Kerberos tickets. SANergy is smart enough to know how someone is coming into the information and routes the data based on protocols. For example, SANergy is designed to differentiate between IP and fibrechannel attached machines, and NFS and CIFS (Windows) files and to allow sharing of files. After several months, the team decided that the SANergy software was not reliable and fast enough in Duke's topology. The disk and tape hardware has worked beautifully but the SANergy middleware has not. Duke staff designed an interim server configuration to provide access to the mass storage device without the feature of sharing. They are working with IBM experts and Duke experts to help figure out the next steps. Eventually we would like to have GRID like capability. The pilot has already paid off. Several grants have been awarded to proposals that noted the availability of the mass storage pilot infrastructure. Mike Baptiste mentioned that Engineering needs departmental storage space badly and asked if phase 2 would be central file storage space for schools and departments (not specifically for research). Mike Pickett explained that it might be advantageous to large number of departments at Duke but that we need to think through the model - does it make economic sense to departments and Duke? Mike will call a meeting to discuss. Student Services Update: Mike Pickett and Ginny Cake met with Larry Moneta to discuss the RTC program in the new residential villages. The Sponsors felt that residential services should contribute material support to the program. Larry feels that the program is primarily an academic support issue not residential but will have a conversation about support with the Provost. During the upcoming year OIT will implement the residential
computer labs and staff the labs after hours - when the Help
Desk is closed. Over the next year OIT will assess what problems
come up in the residential labs after hours. The meeting was adjourned at 10:00.
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