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Meet the Expert: Grady Booch on Software Architecture in the Age of AI

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

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AI is a kind of software-intensive system that reasons and learns. As such, while AI is still just software, it differs from traditional systems in ways both subtle and material.

Join us for this edition of Meet the Expert with Grady Booch to learn how architecting an AI system is different and how introducing AI components to non-AI systems impacts the architecture, process, and infrastructure of development.

O'Reilly Meet the Expert explores emerging business and technology topics and ideas through a series of one-hour interactive events. You’ll engage in a live conversation with experts, sharing your questions and ideas while hearing their unique perspectives, insights, fears, and predictions.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

By the end of this live show, you’ll better understand:

  • The implications of architecting AI as compared to traditional software
  • How introducing AI components to non-AI systems impacts the architecture, process, and infrastructure of development

This live event is for you because...

  • You want to learn how contemporary AIs are being developed and how they’re transforming the business landscape and customer needs.
  • You want to understand the realities of AI and what it means for developers.

Prerequisites

  • Come with your questions for Grady Booch
  • Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration

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Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Monday, May 4, 2020, at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET

  • Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
  • Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)

Your Guest

Grady Booch

Grady Boochis chief scientist for software engineering at IBM Research, where he leads the company’s research and development for embodied cognition. Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he’s best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. A coauthor of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software and IEEE Spectrum. Grady is a trustee for the Computer History Museum as well as an IBM Fellow and an ACM and IEEE Fellow. He’s been awarded the Lovelace Medal, has given the Turing Lecture for the BCS, and was named an IEEE Computer Pioneer for his work in software architecture. Grady has served as an architect or architectural mentor for a variety of complex software-intensive systems across many domains, including shipping, finance, transportation, defense, commerce, productivity, governmental, medical, software development, artificial intelligence, and many others. He’s currently developing a major transmedia documentary for public broadcast on the intersection of computing and the human experience.

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Skill covered

Software Architecture