The most critical information that first-response agencies need during large events, disasters and emergencies is a clear understanding of the current situation — what is happening where, where their team is, and where their resources are. This is part of what is known as situational awareness. First responders typically rely on reports from personnel and media accounts for the information, but this is often sparse coverage that doesn’t provide a complete picture.

ECE professors Sunil Bhave and Hong Z. Tan are among the recipients of the 2019 Google Faculty Research Awards. These annual awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to recognize and support the research of world-class faculty members at top universities around the world.

A project from Timothy Rogers, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, aims to increase the number of individuals and problems that can benefit from energy-efficient, accelerated computing. The research is being funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.

Purdue innovators are at Silicon Valley's premier chip-design conference to unveil technology that is 100 times more resilient to electromagnetic attacks to secure Internet of Things devices.

Quantum computing is all the rage, and for good reason. This emerging technology promises three things. First, there are “quantitative” advances in numerous applications, from fully secure, unhackable quantum communications through which two parties can generate a code between each other that no eavesdropper can penetrate. Second, the technology can potentially simulate the behavior of a drug in a human body down to the atom level, which results in correctly predicting the therapeutic treatment’s effect on a patient. And third, a large-scale quantum computer can solve some crucial algorithms dramatically faster than even the largest existing supercomputers.

Infectious disease is one of the many hazards of life on a planet with more than 7 billion people. It can’t be avoided, but one of the great advances in medicine has been the development of the antibiotic to treat infection. Now, overuse and misuse of this "supercure" has led to the superbugs - so-called "multi-resistive" germs that, under constant attack by antibiotics, have figured out ways to resist the drugs. At Purdue University, we think we've figured out a way to beat back antibiotic resistance in bugs.

Computer chips use billions of tiny switches, called transistors, to process information. The more transistors on a chip, the faster the computer. A material shaped like a one-dimensional DNA helix might further push the limits on a transistor’s size. The material comes from a rare earth element called tellurium.

Prof. Dan Jiao has been selected as one of Intel’s 2019 Outstanding Research Award winners. Annually, Intel recognizes the exceptional contributions made through Intel university-sponsored research with Outstanding Researcher Awards. Jiao is being recognized for her research on “Advanced Study of Nonlinear Signaling Analysis and Gen-2 Tool Development."

If you resort to deleting apps when your phone’s storage space is full, researchers have a solution. New software “streams” data and code resources to an app from a cloud server when necessary, allowing the app to use only the space it needs on a phone at any given time.

In recent months, the FBI issued a high-impact cybersecurity warning in response to increasing attacks on government targets. Government officials have warned major cities that such hacks are a disturbing trend that is likely to continue. A new tool from Purdue University researchers may help stop some of those threats.