{"id":2014,"date":"2021-03-10T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:06:26","slug":"episode-1-exploring-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/ai-spectrum\/episode-1-exploring-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 1: Exploring artificial intelligence and machine learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, members of our high-level synthesis team Ellie Burns and Michael Fingeroff got together to discuss AI and machine learning (ML). In episode 1 of their 4 part podcast, they capture why AI and ML is turning up everywhere and then they dive into neural networks that attempt to mimic the human brain.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=TLFIE1523392631\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><!-- Megaphone -->\n\n\n<div class=\"row podcast-social\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-sm-2\"><p>Listen on:<\/p><\/div>\n    <div class=\"col\">\n        <a class=\"button itunes-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ai-spectrum\/id1551252883\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a><a class=\"button google-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2FpLXNwZWN0cnVt\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Podcasts<\/a><a class=\"button spotify-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1bXAfEPL6mtIydRewlSBPh\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><a class=\"button stitcher-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/ai-spectrum\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stitcher<\/a><a class=\"button tunein-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Technology-Podcasts\/AI-Spectrum-p1404051\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TuneIn<\/a><a class=\"button amazon-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/AI-Spectrum-Podcast\/B08K56PYDC\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a><a class=\"button rss-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.acast.com\/public\/shows\/6012e57e14e6ee573d6b6866\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSS<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What you will learn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Then and now \u2013 the changes through AI &amp; ML history. (01:07)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The catalyst for the boom of the AI industry. (05:32)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What a deep neural network is &amp; how it works. (06:34)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The different types of neural networks. (08:35)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/03\/EllieBurns-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ellie Burns\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Ellie Burns<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Ms. Burns has over 30 years of experience in the chip design and the EDA industries in various roles of engineering, applications engineering, technical marketing and product management. She is currently the Director of Marketing for the Digital Design and Implementation Solutions Division at Siemens EDA responsible for RTL low-power with PowerPro, high-level synthesis with Catapult and RTL synthesis with Precision and Oasys. Prior to Siemens EDA, Ms. Burns held engineering and marketing positions at Mentor, CoWare, Cadence, Synopsys, Viewlogic, Computervision and Intel. She holds a BSCpE from Oregon State University.<\/p>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/03\/MikeFingeroff-1.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Fingeroff - Host\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Michael Fingeroff &#8211; Host<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <p>Michael Fingeroff has worked as an HLS Technologist for the Catapult High-Level Synthesis Platform at Siemens Digital Industries Software since 2002. His areas of interest include Machine Learning, DSP, and high-performance video hardware. Prior to working for Siemens Digital Industries Software, he worked as a hardware design engineer developing real-time broadband video systems. Mike Fingeroff received both his bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in electrical engineering from Temple University in 1990 and 1995 respectively.<\/p>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, members of our high-level synthesis team Ellie Burns and Michael Fingeroff got together to discuss AI and machine learning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69880,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[353,373,299],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-spectrum","tag-ai","tag-digital-transformation-tag","tag-digitalization"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2021\/03\/Episode1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6536,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/6536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}