Beth Ford, president and CEO of Land O’Lakes Inc., will take part in an interview-style Q&A session, 'A Conversation with Beth Ford,' from 9-10:30 a.m. Sept. 17 in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall at Purdue University. The event is free and open to the public. […]

Collecting precise soil samples is essential for farmers because a small amount of soil determines the amount of nutrients needed for acres of crops and can determine crop yields. […]

Nuclear power will be the focus at next week’s 'What IF Nuclear Innovation Could Save the World?: Atoms for Humanity.' […]

In the next 10 years, it is projected 1 trillion devices will be connected to the internet. With the growing number of electronics comes a colossal amount of data available from every click we make on the devices. […]

The various roles that nuclear power plays in space exploration, medicine, robotics and sustainability will be the focus of “What IF Nuclear Innovation Could Save the World?: Atoms for Humanity” on Sept. 3-5. […]

A new addition to your wardrobe may soon help you turn on the lights and music – while also keeping you fresh, dry, fashionable, clean and safe from the latest virus that’s going around. […]

Capturing objective data in about five seconds that can aid concussion diagnoses through an iPhone, the Reflex PLR Analyzer, an industry-disruptive diagnostic tool for traumatic brain injury and various cognitive issues, is rapidly advancing in the healthcare market with the launch of a new version of Reflex, brightlamp’s premier mobile pupillometer technology. […]

How can we create digital, healthy and sustainable communities of tomorrow? […]

What role can nuclear power play in getting humans to Mars or eliminating climate change? Not to mention its increasing role in medicine and safety and security. […]

Purdue University Galleries will be exhibiting work by artist Anna Ridler in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Stewart Center. This exhibition, titled “Dreaming, Automated: Deep Learning, Data Sets, and Decay,” will open Aug. 19 and will run through Sept. 27, with a reception and comments by the artist in the gallery at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 26. […]

Purdue’s mechanical engineering faculty and students are using artificial intelligence to help coal-dependent areas make the eventual transition to renewable energies. […]

A platform to turn the growing sea of social media data into usable and lifesaving information in real time is advancing as more first responders and public safety agencies across the United States engage with the growing Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit. […]

Facebook’s announcement to get into the banking business is putting a new spotlight on blockchain technology. Facebook plans to launch a blockchain-based financial network using Libra, which is being touted as Facebook’s digital currency. […]

Often in the case of a disaster, there are too few resources available to the community. A new algorithm analyzes individuals’ tweets to better understand how they respond to crises, offering a new way to inform decisions on disaster management. […]

U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta on Tuesday (July 2) announced a $12 million award to Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute to develop a program to help fill a growing need for cybersecurity professionals. […]

The World Health Organization warns that antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest global threats and predicts that worldwide death rates from this threat could skyrocket past 10 million a year by 2050, becoming more deadly than cancer, which kills 8.2 million people worldwide each year. […]

In a move that recognizes deep changes underway in the construction of computer software, Purdue University’s Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships on Monday (June 24) announced the launch of a new research center that aims to connect fundamental research in programming languages (PL) and software engineering with domains such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. […]

Artificial intelligence and robots are playing significant roles as planners develop the cities of the future. The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry is facing a major shift in balancing the massive amounts of data available through advanced technologies. […]

If any factory worker could program low-cost robots, then more factories could actually use robotics to increase worker productivity. […]

On the 27th floor of the Salesforce Tower on the historic Monument Circle in Indianapolis, the Indy 5G Summit highlighted the opportunities 5G technologies represent and forged a collaborative effort to ensure the city and state will be at the center of this emerging frontier. […]

A tiny crack in a nuclear reactor, skyscraper, bridge or dam can cause catastrophic consequences. The Minneapolis bridge collapse, which killed 13 people in 2007, is just one example of what can happen when structural integrity is compromised. […]

Shortly after the start of the new year, Americans around the nation will start returning to polling stations to vote in presidential primaries. How confident they feel in the voting process could depend on this thing called secure multiparty computation. […]

Sharing a streaming video or watching the big game on a single electronic device can lead to a big fight: whose data plan is going to be used up for the event? Purdue University researchers have come up with technology that could open a new door for video streaming. […]

What if drones and self-driving cars had the tingling “spidey senses” of Spider-Man? […]

Purdue University’s College of Agriculture is partnering with Gerrish Farms to host the fourth annual agBOT Challenge, a three-day event May 16-18. […]

Purdue University Motorsports and the evGrand Prix group will host autonomous kart racing, as well as manned kart racing for high school and college teams from across the U.S. at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The races will occur Tuesday (May 14) and Wednesday (May 15). […]

What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbirds. If drones had this combo, they would be able to maneuver better through collapsed buildings and other cluttered spaces to find trapped victims. […]

What if future wars were fought using only computers and autonomous systems? […]

Precise measurements are critical to the discovery, development and usage of medications. Major financial and scientific decisions within pharmaceutical companies are informed by the outcomes of chemical and biological analyses. Even slight measurement variations can add risk and uncertainty in these high-stakes decisions. […]

In less than a month, Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan, Scott Dixon and last year’s champ, Will Power, will look to add to their Borg-Warner trophy cases by winning the Indianapolis 500. […]

Rescue teams descended on the destruction left by Hurricane Michael in October, frantically searching for survivors. But a week later, more than 1,000 people were still accounted for, leaving families to wait and hope. […]

Large flooding across Nebraska this year created a desperate need for relief efforts, with various calls for help and supplies coming in from all across the 77,000-square-mile state. […]

A video on social media shows a high-ranking U.S. legislator declaring his support for an overwhelming tax increase. You react accordingly because the video looks like him and sounds like him, so certainly it has be him. […]

'They got all of it' are the reassuring words people hope to hear following cancer surgery, but a growing understanding of the science of how cancer spreads, and metastasizes, is suggesting that not only is this almost never true but — and here is the surprising part — it might be better to try to contain the cancer than to eliminate it. […]

Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot’s brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic shopper can easily tell the difference between the thousands of products in the store? […]

Some of the key mottos for Purdue Polytechnic High School Indianapolis are “learn through STEM and design thinking immersion,” “personalized learning,” and “learn by doing.&rdquo […]

Apple co-founder and computer pioneer Steve Wozniak will speak at Purdue’s Elliott Hall of Music on Wednesday (April 17). […]

What if the brain could detect its own disease? Researchers have been trying to create a material that “thinks” like the brain does, which would be more sensitive to early signs of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s. Thinking is a long way off, but Purdue University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have engineered a new material that can at least “listen.&rdquo […]

The world’s elderly population is booming. The number of older people — those age 60 years or older — is expected to more than double by 2050 and is growing faster than all younger age groups across the globe. […]

Apple co-founder and computer pioneer Steve Wozniak will speak at Purdue University on April 17. […]

Adranos Inc., a Purdue University-affiliated company developing a high-performance, solid propellant for long-range missile and space launch systems, has won the Army’s inaugural xTechSearch competition, besting more than 350 companies in the months long competition. […]

The worlds of STEM and policy can be very different in areas including environmental instability, global health, digital infrastructures and security. So, what will it take to bring a stronger voice of STEM expertise into global policy discussions and implementations? […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently warned that various medical devices made by the company Medtronic, such as implanted cardiac defibrillators, are vulnerable to cyberattack. This is because a hacker could easily gain wireless access to the equipment’s settings and change them. […]

Government, industry, schools, banks, health care organizations, powerplants … who doesn’t have to worry about cybersecurity threats? […]

Many internal components used in today’s computers reach temperatures that are hot enough to cook a Thanksgiving meal. The heat produced by the computations can easily burn human skin and tissue – and much of the heat is simply wasted energy, a byproduct of the computer’s internal functions. […]

Artificial intelligence systems based on deep learning are changing the electronic devices that surround us. […]

Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest management and technology consulting companies in the U.S., has established space in Purdue@WestGate and is collaborating with Purdue University to develop solutions to address some of the country’s key national security challenges. […]

Have you ever thought about what it’d be like to engage in a normal conversation about the weather or politics … with a robot? Science is on its way to transforming this thought into a reality, but does this novel concept fall into the category of exciting, terrifying or both? […]

A fascination with movie technology that showed robots perform self-repair through a liquid formula inspired a Purdue University professor to make his own discoveries – which are now helping to lead the way for advancements in self-powering devices such as consumer electronics and defense innovations. […]

Cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from their digital fingerprints. […]