Why do we spend so much energy running the corporate University? Learning and research is what we are here for. By most measures, research is the most demanding. It produces most data, uses most power, is the most complex, diverse and unpredictable. All disciplines need IT as they mine huge data, spot patterns and follow hunches, solve big computational problems, simulate phenomena in the natural and human worlds, try to predict, visualise and project into the future.
My pitch at the UCISA conference was that we need to focus more on the research elephant. We haven't got a good record here and the elephant has a long memory. We need to build trust and show that we can do really interesting things together when we work as partners. The BRISSKit project is a good example. We need more of these.
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