🚨 Exciting news! We’ve just submitted the final manuscript for our upcoming book, “Engineering AI Systems: Architecture and Devops Essentials” 🎉

It’s been a fantastic journey working with three brilliant co-authors:
• Qinghua Lu, Lead of CSIRO’s Data61’s Responsible AI Science team and winner of the Asia Pacific Women in AI Trailblazer Award 2023!
• Ingo Weber, Professor at TU Munich and Director of Digitization at Fraunhofer in Germany (who led the first large-scale internal secure uses of GenAI for 30,000 scientists mid-last year!)
• and of course, the legendary architect and IT book author, Len Bass.

A special shoutout to the co-authors of our case studies (see below) and our wonderful Boming Xia (who helped throughout and co-authored two key chapters. Boming won the Ivica Crnkovic Early Career Award at the 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN’24) as a rising star of the field!)🙏

The book covers 15 chapters:
1️⃣ Introduction
2️⃣ Software Engineering Background
3️⃣ AI Background
4️⃣ Foundation Models
5️⃣ AI Model Lifecycle (with Boming Xia)
6️⃣ System Lifecycle (with Boming Xia)
7️⃣ Reliability
8️⃣ Performance
9️⃣ Security
🔟 Privacy and Fairness
1️⃣1️⃣ Observability
1️⃣2️⃣ Case Study: Using a Pretrained Language Model for Tendering (with Sven Giesselbach and et. al)
1️⃣3️⃣ Case Study: Chatbots for Small and Medium-Sized Australian Enterprises (with Roozbeh Derakhshan Cori Stewart)
1️⃣4️⃣ Case Study: Predicting Customer Churn in Banks (with Ming Jian Tang, PhD Andrea Luo，PhD)
1️⃣5️⃣ The Future of AI Engineering 🔮

🔍 See here for a sneak peek from the “Future of AI Engineering” chapter: Our thoughts on hashtag#AIWare/AI-as-software (not AI writing software) and the pivotal role of human engineers. 🤖.

💬 Two lighthearted quotes from the chapter:

1️⃣ “Some argue that the hottest programming language is now English, or even jokingly suggest that this AI wave is the revenge of the English major against STEM professionals.”

2️⃣ “While software once ‘ate the world,’ in this future, AI is ‘eating the software.’”