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CNET Silicon valley:

Ethics in AI and Humanity’s Sustainability: IEEE’s Drive for a Better World

Dr. Tom Coughlin of Coughlin Associates, Inc. / IEEE

Tue, Jan 14 2025, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PST        

Location: SEMI, Milpitas, CA 

This event is free!  All attendees MUST register on the CNET Silicon Valley website using the link provided →

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Event Description:

As the world’s largest technical professional organization, IEEE has been actively developing initiatives that support ethics in AI, a broader semiconductor supply chain, mitigating climate change, and ensuring sustainability. IEEE’s efforts include initiatives in its Standards Association (SA), Future Directions Committee (FDC), Technical Societies (TS), Educational Activities Board (EAB), and Members and Geographic Activities (MGA).

In this talk, Dr. Tom Coughlin will discuss his work as 2024 IEEE President, and how these IEEE activities have included work on the Ethical Design of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems, Global CHIPS Act activities, sustainability efforts such as e-Liability for certifiable determination of the carbon content in a supply chain, and the 2883-2022 standard for data sanitization. Further, he will discuss how climate change efforts have included the recent formation of a Matrix organization in IEEE to address this issue. Attendees will learn how they can find out more about these efforts, as well as how to get involved.

Tom Coughlin is President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. where he is a digital storage analyst and business/ technology consultant. He has over 40 years of experience in the data storage industry, and has held engineering and senior management positions at industry companies. Tom consults, publishes books and market and technology reports, and organizes digital storage and memory-oriented events. He is a regular contributor to forbes.com and M&E organization websites.

Dr. Coughlin is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Immediate Past President, IEEE-USA Past President, IEEE Region 6 Past Director, and IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section Past Chair. He is a CNSV At-Large Director and its past Chair, and he is also active with SNIA and SMPTE.