Do We Still Need Architects in the Age of AI?

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The Computer Chapter of Southern Alberta and IEEE Southern Alberta Section are inviting you to join the distinguished lecturer event on Oct. 15.

This Distinguished Lecture event will be from 5 - 6:15 PM (MT), and right after talk, IEEE Day Celebration event will be hosted in the same room.

Everyone is welcome to RSVP and attend one or both events: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/504032

Refreshments will be served.


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  • 2500 University Dr NW
  • Calgary, Alberta
  • Canada T2N 1N4
  • Building: ICT
  • Room Number: 516
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  • Starts 29 August 2025 06:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 16 October 2025 05:55 AM UTC
  • No Admission Charge

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Speaker 1

Topic:

Do We Still Need Architects in the Age of AI?

In this talk I will begin by reviewing what it is that an architect does in practice.  I then look at how AI can support and augment some of an architect's duties and knowledge.  In particular I will describe two empirical studies on how LLMs can assist in the design process. The first study investigated the ability of LLMs to generate and select architectural design concepts. The second study explored an LLM-assisted architecture design process. The overall conclusion is that LLMs are not, by themselves, good architects.  Human architects are still essential. But AI can help in some important ways.  Human architects can leverage LLMs for tasks like divergent thinking, generating design options, and generating documentation, ultimately leading to a more effective and collaborative design process.

Biography:

 

Rick Kazman is the Danny and Elsa Lui Distinguished Professor of Information Technology Management at the University of Hawaii.  His research interests are software architecture, design and analysis tools, and technical debt. Kazman has been involved in the creation of several influential methods and tools for architecture analysis, including the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method and the Titan and DV8 tools.  He is the author of over 250 publications, co-author of three patents and nine books, including Software Architecture in Practice, Technical Debt: How to Find It and Fix It, Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach, and Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future.  His methods and tools have been adopted by many Fortune 1000 companies and his work has been cited over 30,000 times, according to Google Scholar. He is currently a member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Board of Governors.

Kazman received a B.A. (English/Music) and M.Math (Computer Science) from the University of Waterloo, an M.A. (English) from York University, and a Ph.D. (Computational Linguistics) from Carnegie Mellon University.  How he ever became a researcher in software engineering is anybody’s guess.  When not doing architecture things, Kazman may be found cycling, singing acapella music, gardening, or playing the piano. 




Agenda

The talk will from from 5:00 to 6:15 PM (MT)

All guests are welcome to stay for networking and IEEE Day Celebration event which will be hosted after the talk, from 6:15 - 7:30 PM (MT) in the same room.

Refreshments will be served.