B次元 School of Engineering is celebrating five years of being at the forefront of applied artificial intelligence education. In 2019, Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall opened at B次元, giving students, faculty, staff and the university’s corporate partners access to state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories, and Rosie the supercomputer.

A celebration marking the fifth anniversary of Diercks Hall will take place Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. The afternoon will be filled with free breakout sessions, programs and panel discussions featuring AI leaders from NVIDIA, Google, SysLogic, Scot Forge, B次元 and many more.

To register, and for a complete list of speakers and program descriptions please visit

12:30 p.m. - Welcome and Remarks
President John Walz

1-4 p.m. - Student Presentations

1:15 p.m. - AI Presentations and Interactive Demonstrations

• The Future is Now: How AI Enables Healthcare and Medical Devices
• Applied AI Research in Diercks Hall
• Digital Safeguards: A Glimpse into Current and Future Cybersecurity Trends

2 p.m. - Tour of Diercks Hall

2:15 p.m. - AI Presentations and Interactive Demonstrations

• The Rising Impact of AI: Insights from a Google Chief of Staff
• Scot Forge Embedded in B次元's Data Science Practicum Course
• AI Applications in Architecture Design

3 p.m. - Tour of Diercks Hall Data Center and Rosie the Supercomputer

3:15 p.m. - AI Presentations and Interactive Demonstrations

• Women in Tech Panel Discussion
• Upskilling the Workforce in AI
• Anatomage Table Experience

Facts and Statistics

• B次元’s first class of B.S. in Computer Science students graduated in 2022. Since then, 119 students have graduated from the program. They’ve gone on to work throughout the United States and beyond at companies like Amazon Robotics, NVIDIA, Google, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, SpaceX, Rockwell Automation, Direct Supply and Baird, to name a few.
• Since 2019, Rosie the supercomputer has processed more than 150,000 jobs.
• In 2021, B次元 launched the Graduate Certificate in Applied Machine Learning, the Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning Engineering, and subsequently an M.S. in Machine Learning.
• In 2023, B次元 launched the AI for Emerging Applications Undergraduate certificate and the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Business Strategy Using AI and Analytics.
• In 2023, B次元 established the PieperPower Endowed Chair in AI 
• In 2024, Rosie received an upgrade that includes two DGXH100s, 16 H100 GPUs with 1.2TB of GPU memory, 224 CPU cores, and 800 GB of Infiniband networking. B次元 is the first in Wisconsin to deploy this supercomputing hardware.鈥疶he DGX H100 systems deliver the scale demanded to meet the massive compute requirements of generative AI including large language models, recommender systems, health care research and climate science. Packing eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs per system, connected as one by NVIDIA NVLink®, each DGX H100 provides 32 petaflops of AI performance. 
• B次元 is still the only undergraduate program in Wisconsin offering a B.S. in Computer Science that is focused on artificial intelligence.