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Associate Professor of Computer & Info. Technology | Quality 5.0 | Crosby Medalist | Masing International Book Prize Winner

West Lafayette, IN
Joined January 2009
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Present your research. Discover work happening across disciplines. Find your next networking connection. Register for the ISF Research Expo on October 21st! lnkd.in/gJm6RBvD
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What are you working on? Show Purdue. Researchers are tackling some of the biggest challenges shaping our future across energy, water, food, health, materials, communities, technology and more. On October 21, bring your work to the ISF Research Expo. isf.research.purdue.edu/even…
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Join us for the ISF Open House & Reception on Wednesday, September 23, from 4–6 p.m. at the Morgan (MRGN) Café & Room 121. September 23 | 4–6 p.m. | MRGN Café & 12. Faculty and graduate students are especially encouraged to attend.
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Chad Laux retweeted
The national debt just hit a record $40 trillion. Trump promised to eliminate the debt. Instead, he increased it by more than any U.S. president in history.
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ahhhhhhh so I'm hiring a tech to help me out in lab and screening applications now and THE KIDS ARE USING PROMPT INJECTION!!!!!! 2.25 pt white text, here's what I've found so far
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Re-reading the draft I set aside for “a week” two years ago
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The latest issue of our #ISF newsletter is now available - packed with upcoming events, featured news, publications, and funding opportunities! Click the link below to view now: ow.ly/gBLq50ZnWnf
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At the Founding, immigrants were a larger share of the US population and a much larger share of Congress. The Constitutional Convention delegates didn't debate whether to let immigrants enter the country. They debated how quickly to let them enter Congress.
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Indiana has already given Big Tech companies a shocking $655 million in sales tax subsidies for their data centers, which only created 344 new jobs, according to IEDC data. That's $1.9 million *per job*🤯. The total subsidy amount will grow rapidly as data centers are built.
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Happening today on Earth Day! From your kitchen to global markets, food waste impacts more than you think. This webinar explores food waste from personal to the global with experts in economics, nutrition, farming and community support. Register here: lnkd.in/ex4dgppM
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Chad Laux retweeted
Academics, if you write something that the public can't understand you've failed. The point is to write something that even other academics can't understand
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YOU LEFT 509 YEARS AGO YOU DON'T EVEN GO TO THIS SCHOOL ANYMORE
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ICYMI - Now available on YouTube, last week's highly attended webinar, Data Center Download: How Data Centers Impact Our Grid, Our Water, and Our Communities. Stay tuned for part 2, coming soon! ow.ly/KQvY50Y4lzT.
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Congratulations to ISF Circular Economies co-lead Abigail S. Engelberth (ABE) on her new book, Clear and Concise: Technical Writing for Biological Engineers. She's making technical writing more approachable by breaking it into practical, real-world steps. ow.ly/5YIN50Y1LAm
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Chad Laux retweeted
An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX
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not even in the fourth year of Darrell Hazell
My view on August 31, 2024. The first game of the Indiana Curt Cignetti era
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The best thing about laypeople thinking that Tetlock's study debunked the value of expertise is that it comes from laypeople misunderstanding the value of expertise - as Tetlock himself noted.
I think most of you haven’t internalized how devastating Philip Tetlock’s results were in the early 2000s: on average, subject-matter experts didn’t beat random guessing—and did worse than simple heuristics. If this isn't part of your worldview, you're ngmi
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Ready to put your research in the spotlight? The ISF Research Expo is your chance to showcase your work, connect with peers and faculty, and spark new collaborations! The expo will be held on October 15th from 1-4pm in the PMU South Ballroom! Register now: ow.ly/kQf350X36j4
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Yeonsoo Go, a 20‑year‑old Purdue University student, went into what she thought was a routine visa hearing in New York. When she walked out, ICE agents were waiting. She was arrested on the spot and sent to a detention center in Louisiana. 1/n
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Chad Laux retweeted
If you find a topic interesting, read a book on it. If you find a topic so interesting you want to be driven insane, write a book on it.
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