No new technology has the potential to make or break IT like data science. For the CIO, the promise of a strategic role in the organization has always been contained in the "I" in the title: technology has just been an operational opening act. For the first time, we can deliver strategic value around the core activities of higher education: teaching and research. The infrastructure has been developed, the data is at hand, and now we must demonstrate how to deliver value with it. Wasn't this always the real promise of IT?

Gerry McCartney serves as system CIO and is responsible for overseeing Purdue University’s information technology organization. Under McCartney's leadership, Purdue has developed the nation's largest campus cyberinfrastructure for research, with five supercomputers listed in the internationally known Top500 list. During his tenure, Purdue has developed some of the nation's most advanced learning and classroom technologies, including Signals student data analytics program and a portfolio of mobile student learning apps. McCartney is also an associate professor in Purdue's College of Technology and is the inaugural recipient of the Olga Oesterle England Professorship of Information Technology.

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