Aviation Technology’s Hangar of the Future team has been selected as a co-winner of Boeing Corporation’s inaugural Information Technology Case Competition for developing a software application design for use in object recognition.
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Alumni work on Oscar, Golden Globe winning films
The 2015 Oscar and Golden Globe award winners for best animated feature film each included Purdue computer graphics technology graduates as part of their crews.
AMET takes second at national Rube Goldberg contest
Purdue University took the top two places at the 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest national championship, a first for the competition.
AITP wins 17 awards at national conference
Members of the Purdue chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) won several awards at the 2015 National Collegiate Conference in Omaha March 26-29.
Purdue researchers help measure benefits of TSA pre-check
A study at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) has found that new Pre-Check procedures may shave more than 11 minutes off a passenger's security screening.
Virtual nose may reduce simulator sickness in video games
Virtual reality games often cause simulator sickness – inducing vertigo and sometimes nausea - but new research findings point to a potential strategy to ease the affliction.
Gettysburg visit helps students and cadets build partnerships
Over snowy ground in central Pennsylvania on March 7 and 8, Purdue students and ROTC cadets met a contingent of West Point cadets, band members, and officers for a “staff ride” to retrace the movements of American armies in the Battle of Gettysburg.
New Albany pilot program brings entrepreneur experience to students
The Purdue University College of Technology at New Albany has created a first-of-its-kind entrepreneurial program, thanks in part to a recent faculty grant from VentureWell.
Security expert says deleted email could be recovered
Email messages that you delete might not really be gone forever, according to Marcus Rogers, interim head of the Department of Computer and Information Technology and director of Purdue’s Cyber Forensics and Security Program. The messages that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deleted might still be recoverable, Rogers said, if the storage media in the server on which they were stored hasn't been wiped.
Rogers was quoted in an article at TheHill.com.