Kerrie Holley, a pioneering power in expertise and innovation, will headline the 2024 Eugene H. Fram Signature Lecture in Crucial Pondering at RIT, providing insights on one of the extra crucial matters of our time: artificial intelligence.
Hosted by RIT’s Division of Academic Affairs, Holley’s public speak is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in Ingle Auditorium, Student Alumni Union. Admission is free and the lecture is open to the neighborhood, however registration is really useful for his speech titled, “Crucial Pondering: Is AI Nothing Greater than Machine Studying or Existential Menace?” A reception at RIT’s Fireside Lounge follows. Register online to attend the lecture.
As well as, RIT will host an informal conversation with Holley on AI’s attainable affect on careers and employment on Monday, Sept. 23 at 2 p.m., inside Wallace Library. That occasion is geared towards RIT college students, college, and employees.
Holley has been concerned in the tech and enterprise world for over 40 years, with broad expertise in artificial intelligence, healthcare, cloud structure, and modern applied sciences. He was IBM’s first Black Distinguished Engineer and later turned the tech big’s second Black Fellow, breaking limitations in the tech business whereas holding over 30 patents. Holley later earned government roles with IBM, Google, Cisco, and Optum. Holley was elected to the Nationwide Academy of Engineering in 2023 and has authored 4 books. His newest ebook, co-authored by Manish Mathur titled LLMs and Generative AI for Healthcare, was launched this previous August.
Throughout his presentation, Holley will talk about the technical and social impacts of artificial intelligence. Thought-provoking questions will embrace: AI is usually given human-like qualities, however what does that imply for people? Is AI simply superior expertise, or may it pose a critical menace to our future as a species? Are there hidden talents in the massive AI fashions we see in the present day, and is the concept of a super-intelligent AI based mostly on info or science-fiction theories? How can we harness this expertise to profit society? And the way can we increase scholar {and professional} technical abilities to work in useful methods with AI?
“The RIT Fram Utilized Crucial Pondering chairship and initiative has been constructing for over a decade now,” mentioned Jennifer Schneider, Eugene Fram Chair and a professor in the Division of Civil Engineering Expertise, Environmental Administration & Security at RIT. “I can suppose of no extra necessary topic at this second to probe for RIT and our larger neighborhood than the affect that artificial intelligence can have on our futures. And I can suppose of no higher particular person to speak about how we harness and handle that AI than Kerrie.”
The Eugene H. Fram Chair in Utilized Crucial Pondering was funded in 2011 by Mr. Henry Navas, RIT alumnus and former college trustee, to honor his professor, Eugene H. Fram. Dr. Fram was the impetus for RIT’s efforts in the software of crucial considering. Gene Fram is a Professor Emeritus of Advertising who retired from RIT in 2008 after 51 years of educating in the Saunders Faculty of Enterprise. He’s additionally identified for his experience in the research of brick and mortar and the beginnings of web retailing, nonprofit and company governance, and promoting. Dr. Fram served as the J. Warren McClure Professor of Advertising, and Advertising division chair at RIT. Gene obtained the 1997 Eisenhart Award for Excellent Educating and the 2008 RIT Presidential Medallion.