“Our system leverages specially designed metasurfaces with cutting-edge computational algorithms,” says Xueji Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. “By stacking and spinning these metasurfaces, we break down thermal light into its spectral...components.”

“I think the regulation needs to be like a fine scalpel so that you can carve off the undesirable pieces, and you can sort of accentuate the positive outcomes of this,” said Saurabh Bagchi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.

Concern about generative artificial intelligence technologies seems to be growing almost as fast as the spread of the technologies themselves. These worries are driven by unease about the possible spread of disinformation at a scale never seen before, and fears of loss of employment, loss of control over creative works and, more futuristically, AI becoming so powerful that it causes extinction of the human species.

We have all been startled by the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its ilk of Gen AI tools, like Google's Gemini and Meta's Llama. One critical question in 2024 will be, can these be weaponised to make our cyberspace more insecure?

“Previous iterations of optical switches had fixed switching times that were ‘baked in’ to the device upon its fabrication,” said Argonne’s Soham Saha, one of the laboratory’s Maria Goeppert Mayer postdoctoral fellows who is working in the Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility.

“Our method overcomes the challenges of traditional spectral thermal imagers, which are often bulky and delicate due to their reliance on large filter wheels or interferometers,” said Zubin Jacob, research team leader from Purdue University.

Last year, Purdue University in Indiana launched the nation's first program for semiconductor degrees.

"We realized ... that this is a problem that's coming down the pipe. We've got to get ahead of the game," said Vijay Raghunathan, the director of Purdue's program.

Last year, Purdue University in Indiana launched the nation's first program for semiconductor degrees. The goal is to attract science students who would ordinarily be tempted to join a software or social media company to instead think about these electronic devices found in everything from cell phones to cars to weapons. And for 19-year-old Adam Mack, it was a convincing sales pitch.

She and three collaborators—her former advisor Karen Sollins, a Principal Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Santiago Torres-Arias, an assistant professor of computer science at Purdue University; and Zachary Newman, a former MIT graduate student and current research scientist at Chainguard Labs—have developed a new system called Speranza, which is aimed at reassuring software consumers that the product they are getting has not been tampered with and is coming directly from a source they trust.

“You should be thinking about the whole system, and that includes batteries [to store your excess solar power] and panels,” says Muhammad Ashraful Alam, Ph.D., a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. Not all panels are alike or even work for every home or climate, making it important to consider your personal needs when choosing panels, Alam says.