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ECE Seminar Wednesday January 31st

By Jake Newman / January 30, 2024

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Seminar

Our Role in the World's Digital Transformation

Richard W. Taggart

Systems Chip Verification Manager

IBM Infrastructure

Objective: Demonstrate the crucial role of electrical and computer engineers in the technology renascence.

Abstract: Our collective knowledge is expanding at an exponential pace. The demand for generating, processing, storing, and analyzing information is accelerating. The world generated approximately 97 zettabytes of data in 2022, and that figure is expected to double within the next four years. Protecting privacy and achieving computing sustainability are two of the major challenges we face as a result of this trend. Each of these challenges is exacerbated by the adoption and integration of artificial intelligence technologies into our daily lives. Addressing these challenges should be integrated into the design process as a core requirement. This will help build a foundation of trust and integrity in the technology deployed in everyday life. The engineering community now has a unique opportunity to achieve success in addressing these obstacles. We must rely on established design principles and then continue to update our approaches based on what we learn in the future. At an individual level, successful engineers will continue to enrich their own skills in critical thinking, creative thinking, time management, and curiosity, in addition to their continued learning of new domain-specific technical knowledge and experience. These are several of the essential qualities that will ensure an engineer can thrive in the coming decades.

Bio: Richard is a senior manager of the IBM Z pre-silicon microprocessor verification team. He has pursued many interests throughout his computer engineering career over the past decade by taking on various roles as software developer, architect, user experience designer, web developer, and data scientist. Throughout that time, his focus has been on process and tool automation for IBM high-performance microprocessors in electronic design automation (EDA). He has presented this work on behalf of his teams at the Design Automation Conference and PyCon US conferences. He is a coinventor of four filed US patents contributing to the domain of EDA. Richard has acquired a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Clarkson University, a master's degree in computer science from Pace University, and an AI Deep Learning Specialization professional certificate from DeepLearning.ai on Coursera. Richard considers programming and data science as his primary interests of study, and he continues to search for ways he can integrate these fields with the automation of mundane routine habitual activities in his daily life.

Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024, 4 pm via ZOOM

ZOOM Link: https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/95106031702?pwd=NnRNNU5yU2k3WVRTSWdjSTlrUnlaUT09

ZOOM Link: https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/95106031702?pwd=NnRNNU5yU2k3WVRTSWdjSTlrUnlaUT09

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