"Right now, a soil moisture sensor, you'd have about 1 of those per 100 acres. In the future, you might have hundreds, or even more, per acre," said David Love, the Nick Trbovich professor of electrical and computer engineering.

"Our hope for quantum computation is that it will aid chemists, materials scientists and engineers working on the design and manufacturing of new materials that are so important to our daily lives," said Michael Manfra, scientific director of Microsoft Quantum Lab West Lafayette, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Bill and Dee O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and professor of materials engineering at Purdue.

"Today's atomic clocks enable GPS systems with a positional accuracy of a few meters. With an optical atomic clock, you may achieve a precision of just a few centimeters. This improves the autonomy of vehicles, and all electronic systems based on positioning," said Prof. Minghao Qi from Purdue University

Purdue University engineers and the Indiana Department of Transportation are working to make it possible for electric vehicles, big and small, to wirelessly charge while driving on highways. Construction is in progress on a quarter-mile test bed on U.S. Highway 231/U.S. Highway 52 in West Lafayette that the team will use for testing.

"Purdue University researchers are pioneering a path forward by harnessing solar power and IoT technology for smarter irrigation," said Woongkul Matt Lee, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue. "This innovation empowers farmers to control irrigation precisely, reduce energy costs, and embrace sustainable practices, marking a pivotal step in addressing modern agricultural challenges."

Tongcang Li, a professor of physics and electrical and computer engineering, leads a team that has developed the BNNTs with optically active spin qubits. "BNNT spin qubits are more sensitive to detecting off-axis magnetic fields than a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center, which is primarily sensitive to fields that are parallel to its axis, but not perpendicular," Li said. "BNNTs also are more cost-effective and offer more resilience than brittle diamond tips."

At Purdue's Video and Image Processing Laboratory, Prof. Ed Delp and a team of graduate students use powerful computers to help detect which images are fake and which are real.

"Our scheme opens a large opportunity for the adoption of deep learning-based anti-counterfeit methods in the semiconductor industry," said Alexander Kildishev, professor at Purdue University.

Nvidia played a major role in developing graphics processors, which were designed for heavy-duty calculations.

"When we say they are simpler, they are not complex; there's nuance to it," Anand Raghunathan, Silicon Valley chair professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, told Investor's Business Daily. "They are complex in the sense that the amount of computation needed is massive, it's tremendous."

Purdue University associate professor Jing Gao with the School of Engineering, who studies artificial intelligence, said AI can be used at many stages in the criminal justice system. According to Gao, who also researches the technology's trustworthiness, AI is only as good as its model creators. It uses historical data to answer questions, but historical data is rooted in bias.