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WEST LAFAYETTE— Four Purdue University faculty members have been elected as 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the highest national distinctions within the scientific community. The select fellowship recognizes distinguished achievements among ...

Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities.

Extreme events devastate forests, erasing ecosystems and communities, familiar to researchers.

WEST LAFAYETTE — Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems and local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the years. They know less, however, about the more common moderate-severity disturbances, su ...

This week, Amazon announced Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant trained on the e-commerce giant’s product catalog as well as information from around the web. Rufus lives inside Amazon’s mobile app, helping with finding products, performing product comparisons and getting recommendations on what to buy. Last August, the Pew Research Center found that among those in the U.S. who've heard of OpenAI's GenAI chatbot ChatGPT (18% of adults), only 26% have tried it.

In this edition of This Week in AI, TC's semiregular AI newsletter, we talk Amazon's Rufus GenAI assistant and more.

Researchers from Purdue University's Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry have found that artificial intelligence (AI) can simulate tree growth and shape.

Artificial intelligence can mimic the development and structure of trees, according to research from the Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry at Purdue University and Kiel University in Germany.

A research team from the Department of Computer Science and the Digital Forestry Institute at Purdue University, with collaborator Sören Pirk from Kiel

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Scientists at Purdue University have embarked on a groundbreaking endeavor to create a comprehensive spatial database of planted forests in East Asia.