Broad Area IT Working Group
The Broad Area IT (BAIT) Working Group is dedicated to cross-cutting questions aligned with the mission of the University (research, teaching, & service).
Active Proposals
BAIT releases proposals for consideration that are under review by various committees and offices.
Feedback on these proposals is strongly encouraged and endorsement is solicited (through the feedback form) by any member of the Stanford Community.
Research would benefit from a common free tier of data services for across computation, storage, and data transfer. Currently, researchers only have a free common platform for computation (Sherlock) and the aim is to expand this to a unified, free tier for computation, storage, and transfer; and introduce a new single data mount point: /srcc. This would significantly lower the barrier to evaluating SRCC services and minimize the burden for collaboration across the University.
Stanford needs to simplify and centralize authentication and authorization across all digital services. One of the largest challenges when setting up a new team or collaboration is getting everyone access to the tools to do work (storage spaces, code repositories, websites, wikis, cloud platforms, computational resources, etc). The UME framework creates a web dashboard where management of team members (and their respective roles) can be easily linked to the resources they need access to. This framework has many benefits, from increasing effort visibility (particularly of non-sponsored research), minimizing service maintenance burden for faculty/administrators, simplifying teaching logistics, and increasing regulatory compliance.
There are many software projects created and maintained by talented developers outside the UIT offerings that are useful and aligned with the mission of the University, but have limited support. The Stanford IT Commons is a virtual space where developers from across the university can share the projects they build and receive free support and maintenance for their projects. Further, sharing these projects among the community minimizes duplicated effort and accelerates innovation.
Members
Noah Abrahamson - Director, TCG
Zach Chandler - Director, Res. IT & Innovation, DoR
Tom Cramer - Associate University Librarian, DLSS
Kurt Howerton - Director of IT, SoE
Andrej Krevl - IT Technical Manager, CS
Joe Little - IT Technical Manager, EE
Jonathan Pilat - CIO, H&S
Molly Sharp - Manager, IT Business Relations & Planning
Richard Webber - CTO, Learning Technology & Spaces
Julie Williamsen - Executive Director & Asst Dean, GSB Research Hub
Kimberly Chin - Administative Associate, Bioengineering
Paul Nuyujukian - Assistant Professor, Bioengineering & Neurosurgery
Events
A Symposium on Technology Powered Research was held the morning of Fri, Sep 11 2020.
Feedback
Feedback (anonymous or identifiable) for the group can be provided through this form.