Milwaukee Tech is celebrating five years at the forefront of applied artificial intelligence education. In 2019, the Dwight and Dian Diercks Hall of Computing Sciences opened at MSOE, providing students, faculty, staff and the university’s corporate partners with access to state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories and the Rosie supercomputer.
Diercks Hall’s fifth anniversary celebration will take place on Friday, September 13, 2024. The afternoon will be filled with free breakout sessions, programs and panel discussions featuring AI leaders from NVIDIA, Google, SysLogic, Scot Forge, MSOE and more.
For registration instructions, a full list of speakers and program descriptions, visit give.msoe.edu/e/dh-anniversary
12:30 pm – Welcome and greetings
President John Waltz
1pm-4pm – Student Presentations
1:15pm – AI Presentations and Interactive Demonstrations
The Future is Now: How AI is Enabling Healthcare and Medical Devices Applied AI Research at Diercks Hall Digital Safeguard: A Glimpse into Current and Future Cybersecurity Trends
2pm – Tour of Dirks Hall
2:15pm – AI Presentations and Interactive Demonstrations
The growing influence of AI: Insights from Google Chief of Staff Scott Forge Applying AI to architectural design integrated into MSOE’s Data Science Lab Course
3pm – Tour of Diercks Hall Data Center and Rosie Supercomputer
3:15pm – AI Presentation and Interactive Demonstration
Panel discussion on women in tech Skilling up AI talent Anatomage table experience
Facts and statistics
MSOE’s first class of BS in Computer Science graduated in 2022. Since then, 121 students have graduated from the program. They work for companies in the U.S. and abroad, including Amazon Robotics, NVIDIA, Google, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, SpaceX, Rockwell Automation, Direct Supply, and Baird. Since 2019, the supercomputer Rosie has processed more than 150,000 jobs. In 2021, MSOE launched a Graduate Certificate in Applied Machine Learning, a Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning Engineering, and then a Master’s in Machine Learning. In 2023, MSOE launched an Undergraduate Certificate in AI for Emerging Applications and a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Business Strategy with AI and Analytics. In 2023, MSOE established the PieperPower Endowed Chair in AI. In 2024, Rosie received an upgrade that included two DGXH100s, 16 H100 GPUs with 1.2 TB of GPU memory, 224 CPU cores, and 800 GB of Infiniband networking. MSOE is the first in Wisconsin to deploy this supercomputing hardware. DGX H100 systems deliver the scale needed to meet the massive computing requirements of generative AI, including large language models, recommendation systems, medical research, and climate science. With eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs per system, each DGX H100 connected together by NVIDIA NVLink® delivers 32 petaflops of AI performance. MSOE is the only undergraduate program in Wisconsin to offer a BS in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.
