Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture

Mission Statement

To create, maintain and promote a best class of flexible infrastructure software framework with interfaces that are easily usable by software developers across MIT.

To promote simple, flexible and efficient collaboration services among faculty, researchers and students at MIT by engaging with our customers and responding directly to their needs.

To ensure technology decisions are guided by a desire to promote alignment and interoperability, allowing our community to innovate with us.

Conceptualize and define MIT's IT Architecture in partnership with ITAG, MITCET, ACCORD, IT-Leads, ISTAB and other key MIT community forums.

Maintain an appropriate balance between engaging in development for MIT and the world-at-large.

Director

Wilson D'Souza
Email: wdsouza@mit.edu

Organizational Chart

• Headquarters Team
• Data and Reporting Services (DRS)
• Developer Software and Platform Services (DSPS)
• Security Services (SS)
• Content and Collaboration Software Services (CCSS)

Key Initiatives

• Web Content Management System (CMS)
• Thalia
• MIT Touchstone
• MITBI - Forecasting & Modeling Pilot
• Stellar 2.1.1
• QuickPages
• Managed Data Service

Resources

• Information Technology Architecture Group (ITAG)
• developers@mit
• Technology Review Board (TRB)
• Burton Group
• Gartner Group
• Architecture Consulting

External Associations

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium
• Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE)
• Web Security Context Working Group
• Subversion
• Kuali
• Kerberos Consortium