Purdue’s Presidential Lecture Series is a cornerstone of the intellectually vibrant community of scholars on our campus. Universities are places where ideas compete and curious minds gather, ...

THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by ...

ChatGPT and other big AI chatbots aren’t ones for holding anything back. If you ask them a simple question, you’ll frequently get multi-part answers, complete with bullets and emojis. Those giant ...

In the first-ever dual-language Discover Science Lecture Series talk, Dr. Massa will share how Ecoatoms is designing automated payloads, small "habitats," that transform any spacecraft into a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Herpes simplex is a viral infection that typically affects the mouth, genitals, or anal area. It is contagious and can cause outbreaks of sores and other symptoms. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

HSV-1, which is transmitted through oral secretions or sores on the skin, can be spread through kissing or sharing objects such as toothbrushes or eating utensils. In general, a person can only get ...

The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture in Representative Government is presented every odd-numbered year. Designed as a series of three related lectures, the general theme examines the role of ...

Despite the widespread success of neural networks, their susceptibility to adversarial examples remains a significant challenge. Adversarial training (AT) has emerged as an effective approach to ...

Simplex, which provides IT services to financial institutions and public organizations, has always placed a high priority on cybersecurity measures and has implemented operations in accordance with ...

The lecture method is a traditional teaching approach where instructors impart knowledge to students through direct verbal instruction. Often referred to as the expository or transmissive method, it ...