Fall 2007 | Illinois Tech Magazine

Fall 2007

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President’s Message

Letter from the President

Sustainability I am confident that I will fit in well at IIT: I am getting rid of one of my cars. For me, this decision answered questions of both need and want—specifically, do I need two cars in the city, and do I really want the hassle of owning two...

Features

Recipe for the Universe

IIT physicists join the international race to find the ingredients of our existence. How did matter survive the winner-take-all confrontation with antimatter? Physicists at IIT are exploring this question, and the results may open a new chapter in physics. Professors Howard Rubin and Daniel Kaplan probe a light flasher circuit...

Features

IIT President John L. Anderson

The conference room in IIT’s Downtown Campus could swallow an elephant-or in this case a massive, 30-person table, meticulously polished, sparkling, and free of fingerprints. John L. Anderson walks directly to a seat at the head of the table, nearest to a window overlooking the city. It’s an appropriately big...

Features

Redefining Ownership

While the term “artificial intelligence” (AI) may conjure up visions of campy ’50s science fiction movies or epic man-versus-machine chess duels, for Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Mickie Piatt, it has a much more practical application: as an anecdotal case study for the intellectual property (IP) law classes she teaches...

Features

Head Games

Humans have a startling ability to extract meaning from words. For most, a facility with written and spoken language is second nature by adolescence. Reading people on the other hand—deciphering the non-verbal, often unconscious signals they send out—is a highly specialized talent, one that Andrew Rubin (Ph.D. PSYC ’01) has...

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Chief Communications Officer

Rose Milkowski

Managing Editor

Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson

Contributing Editor

Catherine Bruck
Pat Cronin
Christopher Darnielle
Marcia Faye
Richard Harth
Julie Morley
Evan Venie
David McKay Wilson
Beth Wittbrodt

Art Director

Nancy Niequist Schoon

Design

Scott Benbrook
Jessica Serafin

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