Everett Berry is the winner of the 2020 Eaton Award in Design Excellence. This unique award program recognizes outstanding work in the field of design by recent Purdue ECE alumni.

Drones and other unmanned machines can save human lives on the battlefield, but adversaries could hack into their artificial intelligence software. Purdue University will be leading research in partnership with Princeton University on ways to protect the software of these autonomous systems by making their machine learning algorithms more secure. These algorithms are what the machines rely on to make decisions and adapt on the battlefield.

Since April, electrical & computer engineering student Isha Ghodgaonkar and colleagues have analyzed 0.5 terabytes of data per week from 11,140 network cameras. The New Scientist journal recently published an article covering this research on studying worldwide social distancing.

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels announced on Friday (Oct. 2) that the university’s flagship Purdue Polytechnic High School will honor Purdue alumnus Edmund O. Schweitzer III and Beatriz Schweitzer for their $4 million commitment to programs and scholarships to support the educational and career success of underrepresented students.

Purdue University researchers have begun a study that would help determine if continuously collected biometric smartwatch data could be used to reliably and accurately detect these signs early, which could indicate that a potentially asymptomatic user should get tested for COVID-19.

Computer systems are all around us, comprising a part of the almost-invisible infrastructure that helps us at work and at play. Can we continue the fast pace of innovation in computer systems and, to boot, make our discoveries more replicable?