On Campus

Summer 2020
Plan to Attend Virtual Homecoming

Plan to Attend Virtual Homecoming

Visit campus, catch up with old friends, or even participate in Trivia Night, all from the comfort of your couch! Mark your calendar for this year’s Virtual Homecoming & Reunion Weekend and Alumni Awards on Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26. Bookmark iit.edu/homecoming and stay up to date on the latest announcements. If you are interested in planning a virtual reunion activity for your class, fraternity, sorority, or affinity group, please contact the Office of Constituent Engagement at alumni@iit.edu by Friday, August 28.
Spring 2020
New College of Computing

New College of Computing to Anchor Computation and Data Activities

A hub for addressing a variety of interdisciplinary computational research and educational needs. Degree programs in artificial intelligence. Collaborations with experts around the United States on how to develop a faster and more secure internet. These are just some of the projects that will take place under Illinois Institute of Technology’s new College of Computing, which opened on June 1. Besides the Department of Computer Science, the College of Computing, headed by current College of Science Dean Lance Fortnow, will house the departments of information technology and management, and applied mathematics, as well as the industrial technology and management program.
Fall 2019
Letters

Letters

George Bob (TD ’63), Grand Rapids, Michigan, shared his copy of the spring 2019 issue of Illinois Tech Magazine with James R. Carr, a professional engineer who sent the magazine a letter about his slide rule memories that were prompted by the article “Giant Slipstick Returns to Mies Campus.” Carr says that his father (who worked with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a contractor) gave him his first K&E slide rule in about 1939. His wife sent him a 7-inch K&E Doric Model 9069 in 1951 while he served with the United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 Seabees in the Aleutian Islands; he still uses it today as a retiree. Carr recommends that slide rule fans read the article “Lament for the Slide Rule” by Robert Kanigel, which first appeared in Johns Hopkins Magazine in the late 1970s.