I listen to what Gartner has to say about AI, I discuss Echo360, the lecture/learning capture solution, with colleagues at McMaster, I attend the official Advanced Manufacturing Super Cluster announcement, I speak with the AVP and Chief Facilities Officer about areas of interest related to IT infrastructure, and I speak with the new Director of Research Finance and Administration. […]
Month: February 2018
Book-a-week Challenge (week 7)
My book journey: this past week was fiction: Artemis by Andy Weir. He wrote The Martian, which was also a movie with Matt Damon. I LOVE space science fiction so this was a fun read – and a fast read. It was pretty fluffy but funny and Andy Weir conjured up some interesting ideas about […]
AVP & CTO update Feb 20, 2018
I talk about the new student IT Forum as reported in the Silhouette, provincial government funding for a series of computer Superclusters across Canada, the Cubane Uniform Service Effectiveness Webinar I participated in, and the Manager Communications and Culture position we have posted. […]
Book-a-week challenge (week 6)
Yes, I managed to finish this past week’s book – Digital to the Core. I realize that I am not being as diligent about scheduling my reads so need to pull up my socks! In any case, the book was worth the time. It is a leadership book and it focuses on the need to […]
IT Services Review update
There has been significant progress on the recommendations from the IT Service Review.The IT Service Review Progress Report on McMaster’s Daily News site details the updates in the areas of IT decisions, funding, and structure and service delivery. […]
Network improvements update
A large project to upgrade the network, in approximately one-third of the buildings across campus, is underway as part of an initiative IT Governance approved in September 2017. Read more about the upgrade on McMaster’s Daily News Read more about the project status on the Network Improvements status update page on Confluence Your feedback is important to […]
Students talk tech
MSU and IT hosted a forum to learn about how students use technology at McMaster, what has changed since we last talked (IT Review), and what could change. Read about what we learned by Cassidy Bereskin. […]
AVP & CTO update: Feb 12, 2018
I participated in the CUCCIO Winter 2018 meeting – February 7 -9, I attended a Cubane Uniforum Function workshop for the IT portion of the process to think more deeply about how this information can assist us as we make decisions about IT on campus. […]
Book-a-week challenge (week 5)
I finished Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I am an English Lit major and have taken Victorian Literature courses in past. On a scale of 1 to 10 for melodrama, this was a 10. It was interesting to finally read the real story that started all the Frankenstein base cultural references – movies, shows, cartoons, etc. Well, […]
AVP & CTO update: Feb 5, 2018
I worked on the IT Strategic Plan, attended another Engineering Cafe X about the co-evolution of humans and technology, I will be heading to York University for a full day Cubane Uniforum workshop, I am hosting CUCCIO here on campus this week – the Canadian University Council of CIOs and topics include CANARIE, Cyber Security, Cubane, […]