AI System Architecture Seminar
Emeritus Professor Len Bass | Carnegie Mellon University
13th February 2025
DigiSAS Lab, UTS has invited Professor Len Bass to conduct an online research seminar for academia and industry participants on the timely topic of “AI System Architecture”.
Speaker Bio:
Leonard Joel (Len) Bass is an American software engineer, Emeritus professor and former researcher at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), particularly known for his contributions on software architecture in practice. Bass received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1970 under the supervision of Paul Ruel Young with the thesis, entitled “Hierarchies based on computational complexity and irregularities of class determining measured sets. Bass was appointed Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island in 1970. In 1986, he moved to the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he started as head of the user-interface software group, and later focused on the analysis of software architectures. Since 2011, he has been Senior Principal Researcher at NICTA (National ICT Australia). Len Bass was awarded the Software Development Magazine’s Jolt Productivity Award twice in 1999 and 2003.
In his 60-year career, Len Bass has authored or coauthored:
– a production operating system used internationally
– a scientific database management system used in production at a government research laboratory or 5 years
– over 100 professional papers
– books on user interface software, software architecture, DevOps, and AI engineering.
He has also consulted on projects as varied as automotive systems, Mars rovers, the electric power grid, and large vehicle maintenance. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University
