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SUSAN SOLOMON Helping the River Flow WALTER CICIORA Digital Cable TV Pioneer RESEARCH Seasonal Affective Disorder, Augmented Reality from the President

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” —Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 1675

This famous quote reminds us that our successes are based in good measure on contributions made by those who came before us. As I think about the importance of the university alumni and faculty who preceded us, I think of this quote. IIT has more than 65,000 living alumni throughout the United States and the world. The achievements of our graduates are not only a source of pride for the university, but also a measure of our success in educating those who have made the contributions. While important creations and discoveries have been made at IIT, the dominant contributions to society have been through our graduates. The work of our alumni has led to the invention and development of technologies and products such as the cellular phone, magnetic recording, the first nuclear reactor for industrial research, the Pentium processor, and even electro-optical night vision equipment. However, bragging about these achievements is not enough. For sustained success, IIT needs engaged alumni who promote the university and stay connected. The prominence of a university is as much dependent on alumni support as it is on the accomplishments of current students and faculty. The university has not done a good job of developing engaged alumni. We are committed to changing this. This effort has begun at IIT with a rejuvenated Alumni Board, headed by Trustee Adrian Nemcek (EE ’70) and supported by Trustees Andrea Berry (CS ’84), Joel Krauss (MATH ’71), and Bud Wendorf (ME ’71). The agenda of the board includes building relationships and lifelong connections with IIT alumni. We are seeing evidence of this effort through regional receptions, which are being hosted by alumni throughout the country, and a broad, increased alumni interest in the life of our university. Our goals are to build alumni pride, expand and strengthen the alumni network, and connect prospective and current students with alumni. Alumni relations is a clear priority for us. To achieve the vision of IIT, we will need to stand on the shoulders of our alumni.

John L. Anderson President

VISION: IIT will be internationally recognized in distinctive areas of education and research, using as its platform the global city of Chicago, driven by a professional and technology-oriented focus, and based on a culture of innovation and excellence.

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IIT’s six-year fundraising campaign, launched on IIT FUNDRAISING June 1, 2010 and currently in its leadership and planning phase, achieved an early milestone in the development of CAMPAIGN UPDATE campaign priorities and celebrated two new lead gifts.

Campaign Priorities Set Wanger Makes New Gift to New Leadership Program to In the fall, IIT leadership, including deans Namesake Institute Benefit Students and Faculty and campaign leaders, identified the IIT Life Trustee and Armour IIT Regent Craig Duchossois and his wife, campaign priorities that will guide the Society member Ralph Janet, Armour Society members, made a fundraising efforts. In support of the Wanger made an additional $10 million gift to the university to create strategic plan, Many Voices, One Vision, $10 million commitment a unique leadership program designed to the priorities include strengthening IIT’s to support the Wanger attract and connect outstanding students distinctive education, fostering innovation Institute for Sustainable and faculty, and to foster their dedication and entrepreneurship, and addressing key Energy Research. IIT’s launch of WISER to leadership twenty-first century problems. Gifts will in 2007 to enhance the university’s energy and service to be sought for endowed professorships, and sustainability research activities was others. This recent undergraduate scholarships, graduate possible due to Wanger’s initial gift of commitment fellowships, and strategically important $5 million that year. The 2007 endowed enables IIT facilities for research and education. gift helped IIT to secure additional tens to launch the “Although we made good progress of millions of dollars for such new Duchossois toward the achievement of our strategic WISER research projects as clean coal Leadership Scholars Program, an elite plan last year, we need additional resources technology, energy efficiency and plug-in/ scholarship program aimed at top to reach our goals,” says IIT President John hybrid vehicles, wind energy, and smart students from across the country who Anderson. “We are viewing this campaign grid technology. have demonstrated exceptional leadership as the foundation that will enable future potential and academic success. It excellence at the university.” • www.iit.edu/wiser also makes possible the launch of the Duchossois Leadership Professors Program, a faculty leadership initiative that will allow IIT to attract and retain high-quality teachers and scholars • To support the campaign, visit www.iit.edu/giving/campaign_for_iit. and to provide a path to university academic and scholarly leadership for up-and-coming professors.

We are viewing this campaign as the foundation that will enable future excellence at the university.

— IIT PRESIDENT JOHN ANDERSON

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Dear IIT: I see your messages on LinkedIn. “Balancing Act” I wanted to say thank you for your Spring 2010 excellent instruction. I got my M.S. in technical communications and Brant Cage and Sandra Bishnoi, assistant information design there in 2001. I had professors of chemistry, are co-principal a hugely enjoyable time, worked harder investigators with Physics Professor John than I ever imagined I could, and loved Zasadzinski on a joint project with Fermilab every minute of it. The professors were and Argonne National Laboratory. The group wonderful. They encouraged me to is working to improve the surface of the follow my passion, and they tried to superconducting radio-frequency cavities that support my interests with associated will accelerate electrons through the proposed study projects. They always tried to say International Linear Collider, which could “yes” instead of “no” if I had a topic become the world’s next high-energy collider. I wanted to explore. And, of course, FollowUP To read the IIT Magazine online-exclusive the technical quality of IIT at large as article about this project, visit a university was really superior. The Updates on people and places www.iit.edu/magazine. bookstore on State Street was like previously covered in IIT Magazine Tech Mecca. “Staking His Claim on Wood” Both before and subsequent to my Fall 2010 graduation from IIT, I worked in the Architecture Studio Associate Professor Paul field of technical communications. And “Students Speak Asks Students to Talk Back” Pettigrew, whose work with reclaimed ash I still do. Currently, I am a program Spring 2010 wood led to the development of a line of specialist with FEMA, and it’s very In October 2010, IIT’s student-led Students Chop Shop tables for CB2 stores, delivered technical, wonderful, complex work. Speak initiative launched its second annual his students’ designs from his Architecture My working hours are very busy and survey of the student body by publishing and Furniture course to The Cove School full of interesting challenges, and progress reports for each of the seven IIT in Northbrook, Ill. The school is reviewing my days usually fly by. My peers are departments identified last year as most in the student work to determine whether to incredibly talented, and it is great to need of improvement. The reports appeared commission additional versions for be here. I love my work. So thank you, in TechNews. its classrooms. IIT, for an awesome grad school and a great techie program. I use the skills I learned at IIT every day in my work. Mies, New Bauhaus Named Martha Shaw Among Artistic Breakthroughs (M.S. TCID ’01) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was ranked, along with his work at IIT, as No. 2 on Chicago Magazine’s list of “Top 40 Artistic Breakthroughs” in the city’s history. Write back! Published in September 2010, the list notes Mies’ role IIT Magazine welcomes all signed in elevating IIT’s architecture program and designing letters to the editor and edits letters the Main Campus Master Plan and S. R. Crown Hall. for content and clarity. Please send According to the magazine, Mies “usher[ed] in a second correspondence to: golden age for Chicago architecture.” The New Bauhaus—a predecessor of IIT School of IIT Magazine Design—and its founder, László Moholy-Nagy, was c/o Letters ranked No. 30 for the school’s influence on abstract 3300 South Federal Street black-and-white photography. Suite 503 View the entire article at www.chicagomag.com/ Chicago, IL 60616 Chicago-Magazine/September-2010/Top-40-Artistic- Email: [email protected] Breakthroughs-Chicago-Arts-and-Culture. iit magazine | 3 campusnews

Students participating in IPRO 357 include [left to right] Alex Mathai, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND IIT Woo Shin, Samir Qaisar, Chris Anglin, Svetlana Semenova, Yao Xiao, Namrata Hegde, Joong Geun Yun, Samantha Prokop, and Jorge Rueda.

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IPRO SPOTLIGHT Homes

Two Bedroom Unit Three Bedroom Unit

IIT FAST FACT: ENERGY As of September 1, 2010, 100% of IIT’s electricity for the next three years will come from low- or no-carbon alternatives.

64% HYDROELECTRIC 35% NUCLEAR 1% WIND

4 | iit magazine Source: IIT Office of Energy and Sustainability The notion that sustainability starts at home that the competition aspect of the teams Overall Track Winner, Best Exhibit, and is especially true for the Interprofessional has encouraged students to think of new Best Presentation. For the spring 2011 Projects (IPRO) Program courses IPRO strategies and ideas, many of which have semester, the teams are collaborating with 357 and IPRO 358: The CommunIITy exceeded our expectations.” industry professionals, including Sargent & Collaborative. The courses aim to build During the fall 2009 semester, one of Lundy electrical engineer Curtis Cox zero-energy housing communities to offer the teams then taking the course, Zero (EE ’03, M.S. ’08) and President of Robertson residents innovative yet practical energy- CommunIITy, developed its own model Riley, Inc. Benjamin Riley (ARCH ’92), also saving solutions that address contemporary for a “standard home” and compared the an IIT assistant professor of architecture, as housing needs. The communities will share home’s energy usage to that of the team’s they compete for the 2011 National Council infrastructure and energy generated onsite via high-performance home prototype. The team of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying solar, wind, or geothermal sources. found that the Engineering Award. The The courses were established and are led projected energy award, established in by IIT Adjunct Professor Steve Beck (ARCH usage of the high- 2009, rewards college ’89), along with Civil, Architectural, and performance engineering programs Environmental Engineering Senior Lecturer home was one- for engaging their Mark Snyder and Adjunct Professor William third that of a students in collaborative Paschal. Through a partnership with the city standard home. projects with licensed of Evanston, Ill., students in the courses are Additionally, the professional engineers. working to develop a site where sustainable students were For Christopher townhomes could potentially reside. able to satisfy the high-performance home’s Anglin (BADM 5th year), who is pursuing Focusing on the needs of real-world entire energy demand with photovoltaic a minor in construction management, stakeholders—including buyers, real estate arrays onsite. Photovoltaic arrays, often the opportunity to work with industry brokers, builders, investors, bankers, used on rooftops, are linked collections of professionals on IPRO 357 offered him a consultants, neighbors, and municipalities— photovoltaic modules that convert solar realistic view of what he may be doing the teams are encouraged to consider energy into direct-current electricity. after graduation. applicable guidelines, current energy Green Class Community, a team “The project provided me with a better consumption in the area, projected energy participating in the course during the understanding of all of the work that goes consumption with sustainable housing, fall 2010 semester, further reduced the into designing a community. Learning to deal budgets, and zoning issues, before beginning prototype’s energy usage by 13 percent, while with the challenges of working on a project of the design process. This process challenges reducing its construction costs by 20 percent. this size, in a group setting, has been a great students to think entrepreneurially The team attributes the additional energy real-world experience,” says Anglin. while designing high-performance reduction to an energy recovery ventilator, housing communities. LifeWare energy-management control —Tanya Pantone Each of the two courses includes 15 systems, and optimal students, each competing as a team to solar orientation. develop the same site in Evanston. The course The two teams advisors invite a diverse group of outside participating in the industry experts to judge the two teams Fall 2010 IPRO Day, IPRO 357 and 358: http://ipro.iit.edu/project-listings/future-projects#Spring2011_357 at the end of each semester. According to Greenleaf and Green Business Alliance for a Sustainable Evanston: www.baseevanston.org Beck, the competition provides the students Class Community, National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying®: an extra push. “As course advisors, we feel were awarded www.ncees.org

At its October 6, 2010 meeting, the IIT Board of Trustees inducted a new member, IIT WELCOMES Joel Krauss (MATH ’71), managing partner and co-founder of Market Strategy NEW TRUSTEE Group, LLC, a Chicago-based business strategy consulting firm. Krauss is co-chair of IIT’s fundraising campaign. iit magazine | 5 campusnews

IIT is celebrating the capstone WHEN of University Technology Park’s SCIENCE development with the commencement Many science professionals aspire to further of construction of Incubator–South, MEANS their careers with the help of advanced a 28,000-square-foot building with degrees. For some, working a full-time job BUSINESS while going to school to earn a master’s degree space for 30 companies within 15 or Ph.D. is nearly impossible. Additionally, many degree programs focus heavily on wet labs and 15 dry labs/offices. This research, which may not align with some students’ post-graduate career goals. project illustrates a comprehensive and In 1996, IIT became one of the first universities in the country to address these integrated local, city, county, state, issues by establishing a Professional Science Master’s program, with the goal of and federal strategic commitment preparing students for science careers outside of academia. The program was to economic development. The developed with the help of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which provided funding key funding came in the form of a for many of the PSM programs. $4.5 million capital grant from the “Oftentimes science degrees prepare students for research, but they go into United States Economic Development industry and are lacking the business skills they need to be successful,” says PSM Administration, matched by $2 million Program Manager and President of the National Professional Science Master’s in state funding. Association Elizabeth Friedman. “The PSM program incorporates more professional skills into science and gives students real-world experience.” New UTP tenants include EDDR Today, professionals may choose from four degree programs offered at IIT: Corporation in IIT Tower and Intelligent analytical chemistry, biology, health physics, or materials and chemical synthesis. Generation LLC in the Incubator. Nearly 200 students are currently enrolled in IIT’s PSM program, up significantly EDDR is a company supported by from the 50 students enrolled in 2003. The biology program has been particularly the TechAdvantage@IIT program, well attended, with several of the 80 students currently enrolled working to increase funded by the U.S. Small Business their chances of being accepted into dental school upon graduation. Administration. Intelligent GenerationTM The courses are taught in a traditional classroom setting, and since 1998, the focuses on the economic use of solar- program has broadcasted course lectures over the Internet; most courses are now based electricity generation in the posted online. The majority of universities with PSM programs do not yet offer an Midwest and Northeast. online course option, making IIT an ideal choice for students who live outside the Chicago area and for working professionals who are unable to attend on-campus courses. Faculty members are regularly available to answer students’ questions • www.universitytechnologypark.com via email or phone. Health physics students are required to attend one week-long instrumentation lab course. “I feel more connected watching the lectures online than I would in a crowded classroom because I feel like the instructor is talking only to me,” says Vanessa Myers, an analytical chemistry student currently employed as an analytical technical associate at Kraton Polymers in Houston. “Sometimes I have 50- to 60-hour work weeks, and I know the lectures will be there when I can get to them at the end of the week. The education and the convenience are irreplaceable.” Graduates of the program are employed in pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields, the insurance industry, patent offices, forensic and surface technologies labs, food manufacturing, universities, and petroleum refineries, among other fields. IIT PSM graduates are currently employed by a variety of companies including Abbott Labs, Baxter Healthcare, Sherwin-Williams, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever. They have also found employment with the United States Armed Forces and several national laboratories.

—Tanya Pantone

IIT PSM Program: www.iit.edu/csl/bcps/psm National Professional Science Master’s Association: www.npsma.org Science Magazine article on PSM programs and careers: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/ 6 | iit magazine career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2010_06_18/science.opms.r1000091 M.L.A. PROGRAM ACCREDITED

The Master of Landscape Architecture degree program at IIT College of Architecture received accreditation by the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board for a six-year period. The LAAB evaluates professional landscape architecture programs in the United States to determine whether they meet objective standards of academic quality and properly prepare Different types of native Midwestern ecosystems are shown students for professional work. in this photo montage by M.L.A. student Fa Likitswat. IIT’s M.L.A. program, the only such Moving from the highest elevation [left] to the lowest professional program of its kind in [right], one can experience shady woodland, oak tree Chicago, graduated its inaugural savanna, sunny prairie, wetlands, and a natural pond. class in May 2009.

ORANGE BULLET

At the sixth annual IIT Pumpkin Launch held in October, a floating- arm trebuchet designed and built by the alumni team Sprockets, headed by alumnus Kyle Koning (ME ’08, MSE ’08, pictured), unleashes a pumpkin on Ed Glancy Field. The Sprockets design set a new Pumpkin Launch record, hurling the orange squash a total distance of 331.4 feet.

iit magazine | 7 • www.illinoistechathletics.com campusnews “The most important aspects I want my Hamlett, who lives with his wife, players to understand are to enjoy playing Jackie, on Chicago’s North Side, says, the sport, the camaraderie with their “The opportunity to coach at IIT was teammates, and the moment,” says Denis unexpected and a matter of timing.” Hamlett, new IIT interim head men’s After his years with the Fire, Hamlett Getting a Kick soccer coach. knew he wanted to coach again and It may be surprising that one word was contemplating the adjustment of Hamlett did not include is “winning.” After working with a collegiate team when IIT all, his last position was head coach of the contacted him. It wasn’t the first time he Out of Life Major League Soccer team Chicago Fire. faced a challenge. Hamlett was with the Fire since 1998 and Before Hamlett coached soccer, he moved up the ranks of the coaching staff, played soccer, and in 1996—the inaugural becoming head coach in 2008. year of Major League Soccer—was the “I told the players right from the start 12th overall draft pick for the Colorado education is first and soccer is second; Rapids. Upon waking from a nap with an it can’t be the other way around,” says excruciating headache after one of his pre- Hamlett, thinking back to his initial season practice sessions, Hamlett suffered meeting with the IIT student-athletes in a stroke. He was 28 and had played soccer August 2010. He admits that, in a way, it from his boyhood days growing up in was also a note to self. Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, through his “The biggest change I had to adapt college days at George Mason University to was my mindset. When you’re and into the American Professional Soccer in a professional environment, League, followed by the majors. Although it’s about winning— physicians told him the chance of a stroke that’s it. In a collegiate recurring was slim, Hamlett decided to environment, it’s retire from playing. about obtaining “Everything happens for a reason,” an education.” Hamlett muses. “Chicago Fire was an expansion team, and I knew former General Manager Peter Wilt from the days when I played indoor soccer. The relationship and life circumstances allowed me to transition from the role of player to front office staff by being the first employee of the Chicago Fire.” Now making his debut with the Scarlet Hawks, Hamlett says his game strategy is to coordinate his players’ efforts. “The more you can have 11 guys thinking and playing as one, the more success you’re going to have.”

—Marcia Faye

Denis Hamlett

IIT men’s soccer: www.illinoistechathletics.com/sport/0/4.php Photo: BonniePhoto: Robinson Major League Soccer: www.mlssoccer.com

8 | iit magazine Scarlet Hawks facultynews Earn Honors Photo: BonniePhoto: Robinson Emily Kunkel (CHE 4th year) was Rethinking Urbanism named to the 2010 ESPN The Marshall Brown, assistant professor at IIT Magazine Academic All-District College of Architecture, is striking out in an First Team in the District 5 women’s uncharted direction in urban design, one that college division. Kunkel is captain of has led him from distant Agadir, Morocco, the women’s soccer team and has to Washington Park on Chicago’s South held a 4.0 GPA throughout her four Side. He is rethinking Urbanism—seen by years at IIT. The women’s soccer many as a philosophy of cities and their team earned the National Soccer relationship with the built environment— and in so doing, shaping his vision for the Coaches Association of America Team future of urban areas. Academic Award for the 2009–10 Brown says that over the past decade, academic year. many city planning offices have been dismantled, with design responsibilities Stephanie Lucas (BME 4th year) instead being funneled to private developers, was named National Association who, because of conflicting interests or of Intercollegiate Athletics National inappropriate training, may not be the best Marshall Brown Women’s Cross Country Runner of candidates for the job. Community-based the Week for September 20–26, planning organizations, which have also 2010. Her first-place time in the 5K been instrumental in many urban design Hybridization figures into Brown’s (18:26) at the Forester Invitational projects, have achieved limited success in Urbanism approach via a concept originally during that week was a personal best their endeavors. “There is an opportunity for urban conceived as a Web development term: and set a new IIT record. designers to work as independent arbiters mash-up. Mash-up uses and combines between the different groups and to help data, presentation, or functionality from The men’s soccer team achieved a them negotiate the future of our cities,” two or more sources to create new services. high ranking of No. 23 in the NAIA says Brown. The basis of Brown’s mash-up lies in the Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, A recipient of the 2010 Association indeterminate nature of cities, which he the first time an IIT athletic team of Collegiate Schools of Architecture sees as changing minute by minute and has been ranked so highly. The team New Faculty Teaching Award, Brown year by year. was the 2010 Chicagoland Collegiate is incorporating this idea into a three- “For me, mash-up is a conceptual tool. Athletic Conference Champions. Liam part studio focused on the future of a Today, we are more interested in how we Barrett (BA 2nd year), Diego Dias (BA Washington Park neighborhood that offers could have more energetic mixtures between different cultures, different forms, different 4th year), Luke Blakely (BA 4th year), a valuable opportunity for expansion. He materials, and different kinds of spaces,” and Aaran McEneff (BA 4th year) and his students are focusing on how urban design can be a bargaining tool between explains Brown, who presents his concepts were named to the CCAC 1st All- stakeholders who have competing interests nationally and was a featured speaker last Conference Team. Robert Rixer (CE for the area. The group is also 1st year), Rob Ritchie-Smith (BA 3rd looking at how the design year), and Brendon Boucaud (BCPS process can influence the urban 1st year) were named to the CCAC imagination in relation to the 2nd All-Conference Team. Barrett was social, political, and economic “Some Notes on Five Points Toward a New Charter for the Mashup Urbanism”: named CCAC Player of the Year, Rixer milieu of the project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8KBz1zszg was named CCAC Freshman of the In 2009, Brown was able to Year, and Coach Denis Hamlett was bring his ideas to fruition when he received spring at the Future of Urbanism conference named CCAC Coach of the Year. a Rotch Travelling Studio Faculty Grant to hosted by the University of Michigan fund a trip to Agadir with 12 architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban landscape, and planning students. The group Planning. “Mash-up is also a representational Three members of the women’s conceptualized ways to bridge Urbanism tool. Instead of making dimensional volleyball team received honors from with increasing tourism in the Modernist drawings, I’ll use a cut-and-paste method of the CCAC. Kate Kendall (PS 1st year) city, which was ravaged by an earthquake assembling and disassembling things that are was named to the 1st All-Conference in the 1950s and has been undergoing a already in existence, making the new out of Team. Kayla Heller (PHYS 3rd year) transformation in recent years, bringing with the found,” he says. and Noelle Bennett (PSYC 4th year) it an increase in tourism. were named to the 2nd —Marcia Faye All-Conference Team. iit magazine | 9 facultynews Photo: BonniePhoto: Robinson

A Change Is in the Air

Matt Bauer

Languages are not static. Like the cultures that produce them, To examine such questions, Bauer is focusing on two common they can evolve, flourish, or occasionally die out altogether. One sound mergers. The first is known as a “low-back merger,” which feature of linguistic change involves two distinct sounds that over occurs, for example, when speakers lose the distinction between the time lose their independent identities, becoming just one sound. vowel sounds in “cot” and “caught.” The second merger is known as The process—known as a merger—is the focus of a new three-year pre-velar raising and involves a change in pronunciation of stressed project funded by the National Science Foundation and carried out vowels preceding the sound typically represented by the letter G. by IIT Assistant Professor of Linguistics Matt Bauer. Individuals with this merger tend to pronounce words like “bag” as “When you look at just the lexicon of a language,” Bauer says, “baig” and words like “haggle” as “hegel.” “new words are coined every day, and the words you know at Bauer’s current project focuses on 80 junior high school students 16 are different from the words you know at 46. That part of the in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The region is well suited to picture anyone can see immediately.” When it comes to changes Bauer’s purposes because it contains a mixture of merged and in the sounds making up those words, however, things get more unmerged speakers. In theory, individual speakers can adopt complicated. Once a child has learned the basic vowels and merged speech over time and transmit the change to others, though consonants required for speech—which usually occurs between this longstanding hypothesis has not been investigated through a 1 and 3 years of age—what happens next in the evolution of that detailed, longitudinal experiment until now. child’s own language sounds? The transition of entire languages Students in the study are interviewed concerning their social has long been of interest to linguists, but sound change within network to determine with whom they are in verbal contact and individuals is only beginning to be seriously explored. how closely. Participants are then given exercises to assess how they Tracking sound change rigorously raises intriguing questions. hear vowel sounds associated with low-back merger or pre-velar Do alterations in sound begin spontaneously with a single speaker raising, using computer-generated vowel sounds. Next, they are and spread, flu-like, through a larger population? Do they originate asked to read a list of 100 words as their individual vocalizations are among a younger generation and percolate upward to older tracked using ultrasound. Merged and unmerged speakers can be speakers? What roles do such variables as socioeconomic class, identified quantitatively in these tests through the measurement of gender, and even individual states of mind play in the way sounds their verbal acoustic frequencies. Over the three-year course of the are spoken and, over time, subverted? project, Bauer hopes to catch sound mergers on the fly and gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the process.

—Richard Harth

IIT Lewis Department of Humanities: www.iit.edu/csl/hum Language change: www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/change/changin

10 | iit magazine At approximately 2:45 p.m. on May 6, What advantage does a cool and 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rational machine offer the market? plummeted 998.50 points, but within People have long understood that human minutes, righted itself back to pre-crash emotions are part of the problem of levels. For that short period of time, the trading. It’s our humanness that prevents market dropped between 7–10 percent, us from thinking clearly and making accounting for nearly $1 trillion in lost rational decisions; we get scared or value. Among the possible culprits of greedy. The revolution that’s happening the so-called “Flash Crash” was high- in markets today is not just a revolution frequency, or algorithmic, trading in technology. It’s a revolution in society, (HFT)—computerized trading that in that we’ve come to the point where attempts to take advantage of short-term more and more trading is being driven algorithm opportunities, anywhere from a few not by humans, who are bound by fear microseconds to a couple of minutes. and greed, but rather by a much more as Stuart Finance Lecturer Ben Van rational scientific process. Vliet (M.S. FMT ’99), who teaches a capstone course in which students autopilot Articles in the popular press depict build automated trading systems, is algorithms that run automated systems an automated trading expert who as creatures that hunt, stalk, and is regularly contacted by Forbes, Q&A with Ben Van Vliet prowl. Are HFT algorithms today’s Bloomberg, and other media outlets for “Andromeda Strain”? IIT Stuart School of Business his insights on automated trading as well as his thoughts on the future of markets An algorithm, by definition, is just and technology. a set of steps. In financial markets, when certain opportunities arise or What was the big deal about the states exist, a computer algorithm can May 6 drop? execute a set of steps to capture an opportunity. Of course, the algorithm The Flash Crash should be recognized can be programmed to modify its own not for the crash but rather for the speed parameters, but it doesn’t have the with which the market rebounded. As ability to morph itself beyond what a far as we can tell, one or more large person can program it to do. A term institutions came into the market that is sometimes used to describe these attempting to sell hundreds of billions of algorithms is autopilot. The analogy is a Photo: BonniePhoto: Robinson dollars in assets. Given the already jittery good one. An autopilot can fly the plane; market, people panicked and ran in fact, the only thing the pilot has to do for the hills. I believe automated is to tell the plane to take off. In flying an systems looked at the situation airplane—just like in trading—I’d say more rationally and saw it that more often than not, human error is for what it was: the single the cause of the crash. Software bugs in greatest buying opportunity the autopilot rarely cause crashes. of the last decade and a good way to make money. What is the future of automated trading? Most of the research I’ve done and the books I’ve written revolve around the development of automated trading quality-engineering standards. I believe the next evolution in the financial industry is financial engineering. IIT is uniquely positioned to lead the industry toward strategic competitiveness by building automated systems that don’t crash and have wide benefits to both society and the markets.

—Marcia Faye

Ben Van Vliet (M.S. FMT ’99)

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Michael Young

Seasonal affective disorder tends to provoke certain Winter symptoms that are less often seen in traditional depression. During the winter, those affected often eat of Discontent more, gain weight, crave carbohydrates, and sleep more. Indeed, the condition has frequently been likened to

the winter hibernation of large mammals such as bears, BonniePhoto: Robinson The winter blues may seem common during months though Young says the analogy, while tempting, is inexact when sunlight grows feeble and more time is spent from a physiological standpoint. indoors. But what many regard as just a bad mood to be Young has been conducting a study of incoming IIT endured, others experience as seasonal affective disorder, students, which will follow them through the winter a debilitating condition that can seriously interfere with and spring, identifying symptoms of SAD in the student daily life. population. He hopes the assembled data will form the Michael Young, IIT professor of psychology, has basis of a future, multi-university study. been studying the phenomenon—appropriately labeled While it remains a puzzle why certain people respond SAD—for a number of years. Young notes that the more radically to changes in sunlight, Young emphasizes proper diagnosis of SAD can be tricky. While many basic the good news: SAD is treatable. The remedy of choice for symptoms mirror those of other forms of depression, most is light therapy, which entails exposure to a special timing of onset and abatement of SAD is critical. “I lamp delivering approximately 10,000 lux (a measure remember having a young girl come in who had been of light intensity) for 30 minutes per day. New cognitive diagnosed with a school phobia,” Young says. “But her behavioral therapies for SAD also show promising results. symptoms didn’t start until October and they went away in March or April, long before school ended.” —Richard Harth

IIT College of Psychology: www.iit.edu/psych SAD treatment: www.cet.org Cognitive therapy for SAD: http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/10/15/cognitive-therapy-reduces-seasonal-affective-disorder/8990.html

12 | iit magazine IIT College of Architecture Faculty Several IIT College of Architecture faculty and their firms were honored at the 55th annual Design Excellence Awards, sponsored REALITY 2.0 by the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects: James Baird, Carol Imagine a high school student is given an assignment on the migratory Ross Barney, David Brininstool, Dirk patterns of birds in the Chicago area. Rather than consulting Wikipedia Denison, Martin Felsen, Frank Flury (along or a similar online resource, she goes outdoors and holds her smart phone with students of the college), Jeanne Gang, or iPad up to the sky. There she observes the flights of birds, which have Tom Hoepf, David C. Hovey, Ron Krueck, been digitally “painted” onto external reality. A local ornithologist provides Andrew Metter, John Ronan, Ross Wimer, accompanying commentary, accessed through the smart phone’s interface. and David Woodhouse. IIT faculty, students, According to Anijo Mathew, IIT assistant professor of design, this alumni, and overseers won 28 of the 38 example is but one of endless potential applications of the new field awards distributed at the October event. of augmented reality, or AR. As Mathew explains, “AR is the ability to For complete details on the AIA Chicago layer digital content on physical objects in such a way that the physical 2010 Design Excellence Awards, visit www. object itself is not transformed.” AR leverages the formidable computing aiachicago.org/special_features/2010DEA/ power resident in today’s index.asp. smart phones and other mobile devices, enriching Robert J. Krawczyk external reality with user- Associate Professor Robert J. Krawczyk relevant information. IIT School of Design: was awarded the 2010 ACADIA Award for http://id.iit.edu Last fall, Mathew Chicago’s Art Loop Open: www.artloopopen.com Teaching Excellence from the Association collaborated with the for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. Chicago Loop Alliance and Chicago Artists’ Coalition on a project in The award recognizes Krawczyk’s teaching which 200 creations by area artists were on public display at various in the field of digital architecture and, in sites in Chicago’s Loop. Visitors were treated not only to the physical particular, his pedagogical approach that works themselves, but also to a variety of content layered on top of the has influenced other educators. works, visible through smart phones. This included artist commentary, opinions of other visitors, and background on the creation of the paintings Jon Larson or sculptures. Assistant Professor of Psychology Jon Larson awards The Art Loop Open exhibit, says Mathew, was only the first of is a co-principal investigator with Ted Testa, several such efforts intended to transform the City of Chicago into a director of behavioral health services in Lake

& living laboratory. County, Ill., on a five-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration —Richard Harth grant totaling $3,672,500. This collaborative grant focuses on improving services for veterans in Lake and McHenry counties. Specifically, the project will focus on reducing homelessness, improving suicide Anijo Mathew [left] explains the Microsoft Surface Table prevention, and training the professional to exhibiting artists at the Art Loop Open. community on clinical interventions for war trauma.

J. Robert Selman Professor Emeritus J. Robert Selman was awarded the 2010 Grove Medal for his more than 30 years of contributions toward the development and success of fuel cell technology. The medal, given to Selman at the Fuel Cells Science & Technology Conference in October, is named after William Robert Grove, who developed the first fuel cell. facultyhonors Photo: Anijo Mathew Anijo Photo: iit magazine | 13 Photo: Michael Goss

Susan Solomon (CHEM ’77)

s a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Susan Solomon A (CHEM ’77) spends hours consulting the Internet, analyzing atmospheric chemistry observations and models, and studying columns of data about Earth. While she admits that the computer is an indispensable tool, Solomon also says that a perhaps more dated object holds After graduating from IIT and earning timeless appeal for her. her doctorate from the University of “I love going to a library and just California, Berkeley, where she specialized looking at the books,” she told a group of Solomon’s immersion into her chosen in atmospheric chemistry, Solomon IIT students who had the opportunity to career took place at IIT’s Paul V. Galvin started working for the NOAA. She meet with her before she delivered the Library. Her interest in quantitative became adept at computer modeling, and Darsh T. Wasan Lecture in October. chemistry led her to do a senior project using that technique she surmised that a “One of the things I started doing early with the late IIT Professor David Gutman, unique chemical reaction was occurring in my career, and still do to some extent, an expert in reaction kinetics. His work on on the surfaces of clouds in the lower is when I become interested in a particular the rate of a chemical reaction that was Antarctic stratosphere, contributing scientific problem, I go to the library and significant to the atmosphere of Jupiter to the destruction of the protective trace it back to find out who was the first inspired her to dig through Galvin’s books ozone layer in that part of the world. In person who actually thought about this and journals to further research the 1986, she was tapped to lead a team issue. I find it difficult just working on chemistry of planetary atmospherics. to the McMurdo Station to get direct the Internet to see what I call the flow of This research further fueled a passion measurements to test all the possibilities. the river of knowledge. To me, being a Solomon had begun to develop earlier in Light measurements she and her team scientist is all about contributing to that her life. took onsite supported her hypothesis that flow, putting a couple of drops into the “I wanted to go after things that were chlorofluorocarbons, organic compounds river. I want to understand the river, and important to our planet,” she says. “It’s used at that time in personal care in order to do that, I really want to see the a feeling that if I can contribute in some products and coolant systems, were the original books.” way, then I should try.” main driver of the reaction.

14 | iit magazine Adding to by MARCIA FAYE the River of Kn wledge

The following year, the Montreal The amount of the greenhouse gas She is hopeful that considerations being Protocol was established, with carbon dioxide that Americans alone taken now in the development of future representatives from 24 nations signing emit is now approximately 25 tons per infrastructure and alternative energy the treaty to limit the production of person per year. “On average, the 5.5 forms, along with public discussion on CFCs; by September 2009, all member billion people in the developing world climate change issues, will lead to the countries of the United Nations ratified emit about five times less carbon dioxide best direction for society. Solomon is the original protocol. per person than the 1 billion people in the adamant, however, that policymaking During the more than three decades developed world,” she says, adding that decisions be left to elected leaders. that she has been with the NOAA, the problem is not so much a function “Our job as scientists is simply to state Solomon has expanded her research to of the number of people as much as the science as we know it and to avoid include climate change, and is considered it is that lifestyles have become political advocacy,” she says. one of the world’s leading experts in the increasingly prosperous. A recipient of the President’s National field. She was named co-chair of Working While the ozone layer is expected to Medal of Science in 1999 for her ozone Group One of the Intergovernmental recover by the middle of the twenty-first discoveries, Solomon continues to Panel on Climate Change and helped century, at today’s emission rates 20 conduct ongoing investigations of to compile a landmark report on global percent of the carbon dioxide added by the ozone hole, looking at recent warming. In 2007, the IPCC and former people today will still be circulating in the changes that are further influencing Vice President Al Gore shared in the Earth’s atmosphere 1,000 years from the air circulation and meteorology Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. In now. Trees, the soil, and the upper levels of Antarctica. She is also performing the Wasan Lecture, “A Tale for Our of the oceans—normal carbon dioxide computer modeling on the persistence of Times: Something for Everyone About sinks—become saturated with the gas climate change, investigating such topics Climate Change and the Reasons for so that only the deep ocean remains as how long it would take for the climate Climate Gridlock,” Solomon noted that as a long-term reservoir, but the rate to return to the state it was before various the climate change issue differs from the of uptake there is very slow. According chemicals began to be regularly emitted CFC issue on several levels. While it was to Solomon, the only way to increase into the atmosphere by people. easy for everyone to understand that that rate is by altering the carbonate- It is a way for her to build upon skin cancer cases would likely rise if the bicarbonate equilibrium of the sea water, the work of those researchers who protective ozone layer continued to be which takes many thousands of years. came before her and to add to the eroded, it may be a lot more difficult to river of knowledge. ■ imagine the varying predicted effects of global warming—from increased heavy rainfall in the Midwestern United States to 10–20 percent drier Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: www.ipcc.ch conditions in Mediterranean countries— National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: www.noaa.gov and their repercussions. Ozone Hole: www.theozonehole.com

“I wanted to go after things that were important to our planet ...it’s a feeling that if I can contribute in some way, then I should try.”

iit magazine | 15 lthough his office is located Rokop’s desk is as orderly as are the Plans for the academy, which will unfold within the newer University manila project folders that hold still more over a five-year period, include its role Technology Park at IIT complex organized flowcharts and notes on the many as the umbrella organization for all IIT A of buildings, Nik Rokop recalls entrepreneurial endeavors taking place at entrepreneurship organizations and activities, a much earlier IIT when he considers the IIT, including one of the newest, the IIT including the Knapp Center; the Kern university’s legacy of entrepreneurship. Stuart School of Business Entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship Academy He says it all began—well, in the beginning— Academy. Rokop is managing director of the (KIEA), a competitive academic/scholarship after IIT was founded following a spirited academy, which is under the leadership of program for engineering undergraduates; call to action in the “Million Dollar Sermon” Executive Director Harvey Kahalas, the KnappLab, a mobile phone application of 1890. IIT Stuart dean. facility; student clubs, such as the Innovation “IIT was formed by an entrepreneur, [Philip “The Entrepreneurship Academy is and Entrepreneurship Academy, the Danforth] Armour, and I would even say a university-wide initiative designed to Undergraduate Business Council, and the [Frank Wakely] Gunsaulus, who changed advance the spirit and understanding of Stuart Investment Club; and the IIT Angel careers from preaching at the pulpit to entrepreneurship across the campus,” says Network, an executive-level group of alumni becoming the university’s first president,” Kahalas, “and to promote innovation and and Chicago business leaders who have made says Rokop, managing director of the IIT excellence as set forth by IIT’s Many Voices, funding commitments to five IIT-connected Stuart School of Business Jules F. Knapp One Vision strategic plan. As such, one of our startups in the last 18 months. The academy Entrepreneurship Center. “The way the priorities will be to build a formal support is also overseeing the establishment of an university grew over the years—from the system to help students, faculty, and alumni expanded entrepreneurship minor and merger of Armour Institute with the Lewis innovate new ideas and successfully take their coordinating extracurricular experiential Institute, and, for example, the addition of the ideas to the marketplace.” learning opportunities, mentorship programs, School of Design and Chicago-Kent College of and competitions, such as the popular iPhone Law—is much like how many entrepreneurs App Challenge Weekend. work, bringing in smaller entities to build a large one. Many companies go through this kind of growth to later become a fairly substantial enterprise.” FROM IDEA Photo: BonniePhoto: Robinson TO Nik Rokop REALITY

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THIS ISSUE Read more about entrepreneurship and IIT elsewhere in this issue. Alumni Entrepreneur Profiles: by MARCIA FAYE Walter Ciciora (EE ’64, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69) [page 20] David Edwards (Ph.D. CHE ’87) [page 28] Leonard Reiffel (EE ’47, M.S. ’48, Ph.D. ’53) [page 26] Entrepreneurial Projects (EnPRO) Course: IPRO 357 and 358: The CommunIITy Collaborative [page 4] The academy will hold some of its activities Rokop says that more than 20 courses Students enrolled in Stuart’s graduate in the Idea Shop, an expansive physical related to entrepreneurship are currently finance program have the opportunity to hear space designed to foster collaborative idea offered at the undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurs present their ideas in a course generation. Located at UTP—home to levels. This is in addition to the IPRO courses taught by Ron Kirschner, a former medical high-technology startups and established that have an entrepreneurial slant, called practitioner and successful entrepreneur who companies, some begun by IIT faculty EnPROs, where students have the added is the founder and president of Heartland entrepreneurs [see below sidebar]—the challenge of developing an idea for market. Angels, a prominent Midwest angel investor 13,000-square-foot facility provides students Some student EnPRO projects have received group. John F. O. Bilson, professor of with the space and rapid-prototyping outside grants or have served as the launching finance and director of Stuart’s finance and equipment to both encourage and assist in pad for businesses beyond IIT. Most recently, mathematical finance programs, says that a variety of team-based endeavors. Several the EnPRO eMotion, which created a safe students learn a broad spectrum of skills that Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Program method of social networking for “tween” are useful to successful entrepreneurs. courses have already been held there, and a girls ages 7–12 with its product, BFF Gemz, “The students are required to evaluate the prototype of the new IPRO 2.0 format was became a student-owned company. proposal based upon such characteristics as piloted in the Idea Shop with 100 students ethics, leadership, and creativity, and make during the fall semester. a recommendation for funding,” he explains, noting that this course and another entitled Entrepreneurial Finance provide students with both quantitative and qualitative learning experiences. “IIT Stuart firmly believes that the two-course combination provides our students with the correct composite of academic excellence and real- world application that is characteristic of the business programs we offer.” Robert Anderson, director of technology transfer and intellectual property [left], with Nik Rokop at the KnappLab

FACULTY COMPANIES Since 2005, University engineering, and president of Predictek. “Nik Rokop of the Knapp Technology Park at IIT has Center is an energetic supporter of small businesses like mine, FIND A HOME IN UTP provided a haven for startup providing creative ideas and useful contacts.” Wernick notes, for companies and budding entrepreneurs, especially through its example, that Rokop assisted the Predictek team in how best to Incubator facility. Because it is part of the university, UTP is able structure a complicated business deal. to connect clients with valuable resources at IIT, including services Troyk, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, and offered through the Knapp Entrepreneurship Center and various his company, Sigenics, have been at UTP for the past five years. types of funding opportunities. The company designs and supplies custom integrated circuits Some clients to call UTP home throughout the years did not for sensor, analog, and mixed-signal applications. Their chips are begin as external clients but rather used in medical and non-medical were already connected with IIT products. For those with upper when they joined the park: university limb amputation, Sigenics-designed faculty members. Four current and implantable myoelectric muscle former faculty members have been sensors may soon help to restore UTP clients since the park opened. natural control of robotic prosthetic Two professors whose companies are limbs. Since joining UTP, Sigenics currently located within UTP include has grown from a startup to a small Miles Wernick and Phil Troyk. company with 15 employees. Wernick’s company, Predictek, “Sigenics and IIT greatly Inc., was one of UTP’s first benefit from our being near the clients. Predictek provides neuroimaging data analysis and university,” explains Troyk. “All of our engineers are IIT alumni, consulting services, and has developed two products: the IRis™ and some were student interns at Sigenics. UTP provides an ophthalmic imaging system (currently being tested clinically) and environment that helps our growth. Now Sigenics is giving back pipelineMAX™, a neuroimaging data analysis software package. to IIT through participation in the IPRO Program and joint “IIT encourages faculty to pursue entrepreneurial activities, and research projects. The new role of entrepreneurship in higher UTP provides a great home for small businesses,” says Wernick, education is being defined by IIT and UTP. Sigenics is proud to who is Motorola Chair Professor in electrical and computer be part of this transformation.” iit magazine | 17 “WE DON’T NECESSARILY IIT Alumni GRADUATE PEOPLE WHO GO A Legacy of Entrepreneurs ON TO BECOME CEOs OF From the founding of the university to the EXISTING FORTUNE 500 new Entrepreneurship Academy, IIT’s history COMPANIES; WE GRADUATE is filled with entrepreneurial success stories. PEOPLE WHO GO ON TO CREATE Here is a small sample of the many IIT alumni SIGNIFICANT COMPANIES.” whose endeavors have impacted their fields, society, or the spirit of entrepreneurship itself. — NIK ROKOP

Florence Knoll Bassett (ARCH ’41)— co-founder of Knoll, designer and distributor Another two-course combination, this and sustainability. For IIT students and of modern residential and corporate furniture one offered to first-year engineering students, alumni, Rokop envisions that the university’s and textiles is demonstrating that entrepreneurship breadth of entrepreneurial expertise— John P. Calamos Sr. (BE ’63, M.B.A. can be taught by igniting the spark known reaching from classrooms and labs to the ’70)—founder, chairman, chief executive as creativity. outside community—will benefit them from officer, and co-chief investment officer of “I don’t need to teach creativity as much the time they are in high school through Calamos Asset Management, Inc. as I need to accentuate it and inspire; the their alumni years. By supplementing college students already come to class with creativity,” exploratory programs such as Discover Hazem Dawani (CPE ’01)—co-founder, explains Mark Snyder, Coleman Faculty Business at Stuart and The Academy for president, and chief executive officer Fellow and senior lecturer in the Department Future Leaders in Science and Technology of electronic trading platform provider of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental with an agenda of new entrepreneurial OptionsCity Engineering, about the strategy he uses in his activities, he hopes to show prospective Brian L. Hoekstra (PHYS ’81)—director Professional Practice courses, whose themes students that IIT offers an environment where and chief executive officer of IA Global, Inc.; are creating the student innovator (fall) and good ideas can be developed and supported, founder and former president and chief creating the engineer entrepreneur (spring). and transformed into successful businesses. executive officer of Applied Photonics, Inc. In the course, students delve into the inner “We don’t necessarily graduate people who Edward Kaplan (ME ’65)—president workings of entrepreneurship—learning go on to become CEOs of existing Fortune of Nalpak, Inc.; co-founder and chairman what an entrepreneur is and is not, the myths 500 companies; we graduate people who go on emeritus of Zebra Technologies, a of entrepreneurship, and the importance of to create significant companies,” Rokop says, manufacturer of thermal bar code label ethics in engineering. Snyder also shows them citing Edward Kaplan (ME ’65), co-founder of printers and supplies how to take creativity one step further by Zebra Technologies; Victor Tsao (M.S. CS ’80), adding a value component to their projects. founder of Linksys; and John P. Calamos Sr. Terry Ni (M.S. ENVE ’82)—founder In one course exam, Snyder gives student (BE ’63, M.B.A. ’70), founder of Calamos Asset of T N & Associates, acquired by Oneida teams $5 each and instructs them to return Management [see sidebar at right]. Total Integrated Enterprises, which offers to class the next week with more than $5. Alumni from all class years can benefit government clients environmental and He says that thus far, the largest sum attained from IIT’s entrepreneurial community by other services has been $360. interacting with more experienced alumni Robert A. Pritzker (IE ’46)—president Other projects, such as the SEED who are helping to ensure that IIT’s legacy and chief executive officer of Colson (Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Economic of entrepreneurship continues. In addition Associates, Inc.; founder of The Marmon Development) initiative at Stuart’s Center to serving in the IIT Angel Network or Group, an international association for Strategic Competitiveness, aim to on the Knapp Board of Advisors, alumni of autonomous manufacturing and take the benefits of entrepreneurship entrepreneurs have provided funding for service companies beyond the academic setting. SEED courses, served as IPRO or EnPRO advisors explores and actively engages with and judges, and headed competitions Ron Rashkow (BE ’64)—founder, communities across the United States to featuring new technology. In Snyder’s course, chairman, and chief executive officer of retain their small-town characteristics while two luncheons connecting students and the Handy Andy chain of home increasing economic attractiveness and vitality alumni entrepreneurs have taken place and improvement centers through entrepreneurial development, have proven to be popular with both students Ellen Jordan Reidy (PSYC ’79, M.B.A. information ubiquity, dramatic technology, and alumni. ’81)—founder and president of America’s “My students have discovered that Food Technologies, Inc., a blending and engineering is a vehicle that allows packaging operation specializing in custom them to do almost anything that they and private label beverages can imagine,” says Snyder, adding Victor Tsao (M.S. CS ’80)—founder and that he could not take credit for what Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center: http://knappcenter.iit.edu chairman of Miven Venture Partners; founder many in his class regarded as being a KnappLab: www.knapplab.com of Linksys home wireless-networking company revelation. “And they learned that from Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Program: http://ipro.iit.edu (sold to Cisco) our alumni.” ■ 18 | iit magazine FROM STUDENT TO ENTREPRENEUR DISCOVERING DREAMS

or Tiger Nigamatzyanov Nigamatzyanov used the rest of his (ARCE ’10), his ability to time at IIT to hone his business skills identify a potential market and shape his company. After meeting and jump on it was the key to with IIT President John Anderson, he earningF his stripes as an entrepreneur. was put in contact with the Knapp Photo: BonniePhoto: Robinson In 2007, when a business opportunity Entrepreneurship Center’s Nik Rokop, he admits fell into his lap, he seized it. who Nigamatzyanov says engaged Nigamatzyanov had just finished him in one-on-one meetings about his first fall semester as an IIT transfer strategy and worked with him on student when he visited the president his presentation skills. At Rokop’s of his former university. “That school encouragement, Nigamatzyanov had started to grow dramatically. The served as president of the Construction president told me she was looking to Management Association of America expand the campus and was in search IIT Student Chapter, which CMAA of a construction company,” he says. “I named as the 2010 Best Student saw this as a chance to open one of my Chapter in the country. The own. It was an exciting way to spend experience allowed him to fine-tune my winter break,” he says with a laugh. his leadership skills and tap into He launched his general contracting nationwide connections. company, Siegel Construction, He adds that through Rokop he was that December. “I wasn’t sure it introduced to investors and others in would develop into anything, his profession that he might not have but when an opportunity met otherwise. “IIT is a good school comes, you take it,” for entrepreneurs because it’s the he says. only school in the area that provides the kind of personal and business connections to be successful,” he says. Nigamatzyanov notes that traditional coursework at IIT also factored in the development of his company. Based on what he learned, he switched Siegel’s scope to construction management, and it now concentrates on the health care sector. He says his company has now grown “too big to sell”—“a good problem to have,” he says—and that Siegel’s client base continues to grow each year. Even though Nigamatzyanov is an alumnus, Rokop continues to consult with him about the Chicago-based company. Nigamatzyanov says his goal is to open new Siegel locations elsewhere in the country this year. “The thing about entrepreneurs is that we’re all discoverers,” he says. “It’s about knowing what you want to do, having a vision, and being a discoverer of your own dreams.”

Tiger Nigamatzyanov (ARCE ’10) • http://siegelconstruction.com

iit magazine | 19 few years after World War II “Walt Ciciora was one of the brightest shifted its focus to color television. His first ended, Stanley Ciciora used his students of his time at IIT,” says Gerald project was the digitization of TV signals, knowledge gained as a wartime Saletta, professor emeritus in the IIT which allowed them to be scrambled for an aircraft carrier radio technician Department of Electrical and Computer early subscription television service. to turn his family’s FM console radio into Engineering, and one of Ciciora’s mentors. A watershed event occurred in cable TV a home entertainment center by modifying “After graduating with his electrical on September 30, 1975, when a satellite it to tune in the audio from television engineering doctorate, he went to work for delivered signals to transmit the “Thrilla in channels. In time, he acquired a broken, Zenith with a pack of five guys, all of whom Manila” boxing match between Muhammad 12-inch, black-and-white TV and repaired taught at or graduated from IIT. They were a Ali and Joe Frazier on HBO. Concurrently, it to the delight of his clan, which included dynamic group that influenced the path of Ciciora was working to bring Zenith up to his pre-teen son Walter, who knew that his television innovation at Zenith in the United speed on the latest data over television father had a gift for bringing old TVs, radios, States,” Saletta says. developments. He led a team that produced and appliances back to life. As an undergraduate, Ciciora first a new data transmission method for use in “I have a memory of him waking me up took a summer job at the Zenith Radio satellite signals, thus eliminating the use when I was about eight years old to show Corporation, when cable TV was still in its of leased telephone lines to deliver data to me a magnetized needle suspended from a infancy. Consisting of fewer than 12 analog cable systems. This move was cost-effective string interacting with a magnet; I can’t say channels in the form of Community Antenna for the company and gave Ciciora an why, but that stuck with me,” says Walter Television, cable was used primarily by opportunity to transition into the emerging Ciciora (EE ’64, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69), via households in remote areas where antenna cable set-top box group. With the advent an electronic interview from his home in strength was inadequate. By 1969, when of programming such as CNN and with the Southport, Conn. Those early impressions Ciciora graduated from IIT and began number of cable channels steadily growing, served the young Ciciora well. Now an in- working full-time for Zenith, the company a set-top box with expanded tuner range demand expert witness and a recognized became necessary. With Ciciora’s efforts, contributor in the consumer electronics Zenith sales went from zero to $80 million industry, he literally co-wrote the book in two years. on cable television. The first edition of Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications received a book award from The Cable Center in 2000. The second edition was published in 2004.

WALTER CICIORA (EE ’64, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69) The Real Cable Guy

by Marcia Faye ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND IIT

Photo: David Bravo 20 | iit magazine One of Ciciora’s customers, American Television and Communications, a subsidiary of Time Inc., offered him the position of vice president of its new Academy of Digital Television Pioneers: www.ce.org/AboutCEA/CEAInitiatives/3715.asp R & D department. When another watershed cable event occurred in the late 1980s— the formation of a cooperative R & D most of his professional life to being an his and other families to create lasting organization for the entire cable industry— expert witness on legal cases involving memories of their own. Ciciora’s role became one of representing interactive TV, cable TV, tuners, electronic “There are now services that allow free ATC in technical industry affairs and program guides, and parental control of video calls between computers wherever interpreting technology trends. TV access. He and his wife, Jeanette, whom high-speed Internet is available,” says In 1993, Ciciora left ATC (which Ciciora met at an IIT dance and married in Ciciora. “Now children can be told a became Time Warner Cable) to pursue 1964, stay busy traveling, caring for her four bedtime story by a parent, no matter where entrepreneurial interests and consultancy horses, and visiting with family, including in the world that parent has to travel.” ■ opportunities. He co-founded the Ciciora’s two brothers, both IIT School of EnCamera Science Corp. and co-invented Design alumni, and his four children and a patented technology to embed up to 4.5 seven grandchildren. megabits/second of data into an analog The electronics technology that made TV signal without damaging the signal, such an indelible impression on Ciciora providing a form of “over-the-air” cable. during his youth continues to evolve and EnCamera was sold to the broadband inspire him with its capability to allow communications firm Dotcast, Inc., which licensed the technology to The Walt Disney Co. for its MovieBeam service. Rolled out in 29 cities across the country, MovieBeam was an early form of video-on-demand “The cable industry has come light years since made possible via embedded digital data my student days at IIT in the 1960s,” says Walter sent to Disney’s ABC network and local Ciciora, who received Man of the Year awards in PBS stations that then delivered the 1990 and 1993 from Communications, Engineering & Design magazine. He movies to a set-top box with a hard drive shares his observations on some of the top advances in an industry that began in subscribers’ homes. largely as off-air broadcasts and a weather channel consisting of a camera Ciciora also co-founded HBA MatchMaker aimed at a set of meteorological instruments. Media, Inc., a startup that focuses on what many marketers consider to be the Holy Satellite Delivery of TV to Cable Headends Grail of TV advertising—the technical When satellite delivery of TV to cable headends—facilities that produce and capability to target, deliver, and display distribute TV signals—became affordable, cable TV could be considered for specific ads to specific households—and widespread use. “At around that time, Ted Turner introduced the concept was issued two pioneering patents for of the ‘superstation,’” adds Ciciora. “He took his Atlanta UHF station and “addressable-advertising” technologies contracted for it to be delivered nationwide by satellite. Soon after, more and in the late 1990s. Though the TV industry more special-interest channels became available.” continues to work on overcoming business issues, such as the ability to feature Introduction of Fiber Optics addressable advertising on a Through improvements in laser technology in the mid 1980s, the trunk large scale, promise for this latest component of a neighborhood cable system could be fitted with a fiber optic direction in television is strong. An cable, which allowed dozens of analog TV channels to be launched. “Suddenly, addressable-advertising test trial picture quality got better and reliability dramatically improved,” says Ciciora. done by two media organizations “Since the trunk of the cable system consisted of only 10 to 20 percent of the in Baltimore during 2009 showed total footage, it became relatively inexpensive to put fiber into the trunk and that viewers turned away from solve some of the most vexing technical problems.” targeted ads 32 percent less of the time than households that Development of Digital Internet Services received non-targeted ads. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the explosive growth of Internet increased While Ciciora—who was the demand for high-speed service. “Cable could provide more than 10 times named a 2000 Academy of Digital the speed of a telephone modem,” explains Ciciora. “The phone company Television Pioneer and a Cable responded with DSL service, but it was still slower than cable modems. In Industry Pioneer—still serves the mid-2000s, the cable modem added VoIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol) on the board of HBA, he devotes telephone service. Unlimited calls within the United States for a flat monthly charge of around $30 was a quick winner.” BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGHS THEIN CABLE INDUSTRY iit magazine | 21 alumninews Share Your News! We want to hear from you! Send us your class note at [email protected]. classnotes

Raymond Brach Gerald “Jerry” Bepko Vincent Finnegan 1940s (ME ’58, M.S. ’62), South 1960s (LAW ’65), Indianapolis, was (LAW ’69), Thousand Oaks, ➔ Jacob Dumelle John Vinci Bend, Ind., professor emeritus reappointed to the Indiana Calif., was promoted to chief (ME ’47, M.S. PEA ’50), Oak (ARCH ’60), Chicago, helped in the Department of Commission for Higher executive officer of Pacific Park, Ill., retired in 1992 to complete the book The Aerospace and Mechanical Education for a four-year term Cornerstone Capital in July after 23 years on the Illinois Complete Architecture of Engineering at the University by Indiana Governor Mitch 2010. He previously served as Pollution Control Board, most Adler & Sullivan. With more of Notre Dame, and his Daniels in June 2010. Bepko is president and national sales of those as chairman. He now than 800 images, the book is son, R. Matthew Brach, an chancellor emeritus of Indiana manager of the real estate enjoys spending time with his recognized as being the first engineering consultant with University-Purdue University investment fund. two granddaughters, Cassie complete record of the works Brach Engineering, have both Indianapolis and the inaugural and Audrey. of the two notable Chicago been named winners of the director of IUPUI’s Randall L. architects. Vinci, principal with 1970s 2010 Forest R. McFarland Tobias Center for Leadership Vinci/Hamp Architects, Inc., ➔ Silas Cartland 1950s Award by SAE International. Excellence. He was formerly (MAE ’70), Elgin, Ill., ➔ Samuel Levin also contributed a series of Brach is also a mechanical the interim president of retired from Cartland Kraus (ME ’51), Glenview, Ill., started essays to the publication. engineering consultant Indiana University. Engineering in 2004. His a company with colleagues with Brach Engineering and ➔ John LaPlante son John Cartland (ME ’99) who worked on analytical ➔ Larry Gsellman a SAE fellow. (CE ’61), Chicago, is a vice remains at the company as a research for missiles. He enjoys (Ph.D. BE ’66), Reston, Va., president and director of traffic new co-owner. Cartland enjoys hiking, camping, theater, ➔ William Cole worked to develop the first engineering in the Chicago spending summers in northern opera, and membership at the (EE ’58), Arlington Heights, Energy Resources Council office of T. Y. Lin International. Wisconsin and volunteering in Chicago Botanic Garden. Levin Ill., worked for Motorola for before the creation of the He and Linda, his wife of the Elgin area. has three children. 20 years and retired as vice United States Department of nearly 50 years, are active in president from the DynaScan Energy. He has also worked Fred Dew ➔ William Atkins their church and with their Corp. During his career, he on advising the U.S. Social (CE ’70), Altadena, Calif., (EE ’52), Sun City West, Ariz., two grandchildren, and had three patents and hand Security Administration on is executive director of retired from Sandia National enjoy traveling. made one of the first portable matters pertaining to its Global Field Operations at Laboratories in 1994. He and walkie-talkies. Cole and Norbert “Pete” Pointner communications networks. eSolar, where he leads the his wife, Margaret, volunteer his wife have four children (ARCH ’61, M.S. CRP Gsellman enjoys doing yard engineering, procurement, at the New Mexico Museum and enjoy traveling in their ’62), Wheaton, Ill., gave work, being outdoors, traveling and construction of the Sierra of Natural History and Science. motor home. a presentation on green with his wife, and serving on SunTower, the world’s first Atkins also teaches photo- infrastructure at the regional the building committee for his small-mirror concentrating imaging computer courses ➔ Peter Dallos conference of the American church. He has two daughters. solar power plant. The project at a multigenerational center (EE ’58), Wilmette, Ill., was Public Works Association in was selected as a 2009 in Albuquerque. honored in recognition of his ➔ David Vadman May and wrote an article Project of the Year by Power 75th birthday at the research (ARCH ’66), Buffalo, N.Y., and on the subject for the May Engineering magazine. A ➔ Robert Service Clark symposium “The Ins and Outs his wife, Maureen, divide their newsletter of the Illinois retired United States Navy (ARCH ’52), Everett, Wash., of Hair Cells” by the Hugh time between homes in Irvine, Chapter of the American Civil Engineer Corps officer, has done work in urban Knowles Center for Clinical and Calif., and Black Butte Ranch, Planning Association. He Dew and his wife, Betsy, renewal and his company was Basic Science in Hearing and Ore., and enjoy being with authored “The Implications have four grown children and voted by his peers as a Top 20 Its Disorders at Northwestern their grandchildren. of Growth and the Challenge eight grandchildren. North American consulting University in October 2010. firm. He was a land consultant of Change,” published in the ➔ David Chernow ➔ Darryll Schiff to John Wayne from ➔ Kenneth Gillis June 2010 issue of the Illinois (MATH ’67), Inverness, Ill., (DSGN ’72), Chicago, is owner 1968–1978. He has clients (CE ’58, LL.M. ’90), Chicago, Municipal Review. Many of was senior vice president of Darryll Schiff Fine Art and from Alaska to Brazil, as well served as an elected judge the principles proposed in the and head of the Investment principle of Unique Recycling as a pilot’s license. from 1978–1990 and now article are taken from Products Division of CNA USA. His photographic works works as an attorney. He has his book, Planning Insurance before he retired are exhibited at various ➔ Harold Olin taught classes in trial advocacy Connections—Human, as an actuary. He and his venues, including the museums (ARCH ’54), Chicago, is retired and remedies at IIT Chicago- Natural and Man Made. wife, Ann, collect books and the Art Institute of Chicago from professional practice. Kent College of Law. He enjoys enjoy attending mystery ➔ Larry Darda and the Metropolitan Museum He enjoys spending time with doing jigsaw and crossword writers’ conventions. (EE ’63), Frankfort, Ill., worked of Art. He has two children. his family as well as running, puzzles with his grandchildren bicycling, skiing, and reading. in the United States Armed ➔ Russell Whittman and traveling. Gillis and his ➔ Kambiz Taleghani Olin is also active with Windy Forces Reserves on research (EE ’67, M.S. ’68), Aurora, Ill., wife have three children. (MAE ’72), Los Angeles, City Habitat for Humanity. and development for the retired from Alcatel-Lucent is the co-founder of Kelar nation’s defense weapons and enjoys spending time with Corporation, an IT solutions pertaining to semiconductors his granddaughter. and other technologies. provider, and its four He wrote some of the ➔ Scott Abbeduto subsidiaries. He and his wife, defense policies regarding (EE ’69), Orland Park, Ill., Adriana, have a daughter, the sustainability of the was employed at the Western Leila, who is a pianist. The nation’s defense and satellite Electric Co., Sciaky, Inc., and family enjoys traveling, and technologies. Darda enjoys Holland Engineering, Inc. over drove around the world in politics, history, automobiles, his career. He enjoys working 2008 in a converted van. racing, and investing. on cars and is an accomplished Taleghani’s passions are sailing racer. Abbeduto has flying, reading, farming, and two children. technology/gadgets.

22 | iit magazine ➔ James Gatziolis Joseph Martan (LAW ’73), Chicago, was (LAW ’77), Western Springs, Martin Cooper elected as the 121st president Ill., takes annual trips to the (EE ’50, M.S. ’57), Del Mar, Calif., was inducted into the of the Union League Club Czech Republic with a group National Academy of Engineering in February 2010. Executive of Chicago in June 2010. of fellow attorneys to present chairman and co-founder of ArrayComm LLC, Cooper was He is a partner at Quarles & seminars on American law honored for his leadership in the creation and deployment Brady, LLP. topics to students, legal of the cellular portable handheld telephone. The NAE lists apprentices, and attorneys. In Cooper’s first portable cell phone call of 1973 as one of its Thomas Prindable May 2010, Martan was invited “Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century.” (LAW ’73), Chicago, managing to be a guest conductor at a Cooper also created the Improved Mobile Telephone Service partner at Clifford Law Czech music festival. Offices, spearheaded the system, high-capacity paging, and trunked land-mobile systems firm’s efforts in coaching and James Reichardt during his longtime career at Motorola, Inc. In 2010, Cooper received an Alumni Medal, mentoring sixth-, seventh-, (LAW ’77), Wheaton, Ill., has one of IIT’s highest awards, for his accomplishments. and eighth-grade students at been appointed by the Illinois a mock trial competition at Supreme Court to the board of Harriet Beecher Stowe Fine directors of the Lawyers Trust John Walden Amr Talaat ➔ Michael Hunter and Performing Arts Academy Fund of Illinois. (LAW ’86), Rogers, Minn., (M.S. CS ’88), Cairo, Egypt, (ARCH ’94), Seattle, in spring 2010. is chief executive officer and was named general manager celebrated his 10th anniversary Mario Romero director of Activeion Cleaning of IBM Egypt. He had served with Microsoft in 2010 by Jim Lavine (CHE ’79, M.S. CHE ’83), Solutions, a privately held as IBM Egypt territory joining the Windows Phone 7 (LAW ’74), Houston, was Ann Arbor, Mich., is vice cleaning-technology manager since 2005 and team as a test architect. At sworn in as president of president of operations company focusing on has held other positions with home, he draws, writes, and the National Association of at the Environmental sustainable cleaning. the company, which he joined posts to his blog about testing. Criminal Defense Lawyers in Quality Company. in 1988. August 2010. He is a partner ➔ Paul Clausen ➔ Lisa Pfeiffer with Zimmermann, Lavine, (ARCH ’87), Chicago, (M.B.A. ’95), Naperville, Ill., Zimmermann, & Sampson, PC. 1980s is president of Clausen is office manager of the ➔ Barbara Johnson Management Services, Inc., a 1990s Law Office of Robert B. Glenn Hoffman Tyler L. Duvall (IE ’80), Redondo Beach, Calif., program/project management Williams. She and her (MET ’75), Lancaster, S.C., (M.B.A. ’90, J.D. ’91), is an information security and firm. He and his wife have two husband, Scott (M.B.A. ’95), received the Antoine M. Henderson, Nev., and his wife, business continuity consultant. teenage children. have two children, Nicholas Gaudin Award at the 2010 Donna, welcomed their second She and her husband, Doug, and Kristin. Pfeiffer also Annual Conference for the child, Brayden Tyler, in May have two children. Arthur Liberty enjoys volunteering at her Society of Mining, Metallurgy, 2010, and along with their (LAW ’87), North Ridgeville, children’s schools and for the and Exploration. The award daughter, Paris, are thrilled ➔ Ellen Bennett Ohio, is head of the cheerleading organization was established in 1975 with this latest addition. Duvall (LAW ’82), Chicago, is Midwest Field Office of the Naperville Pom & Cheer. and recognizes scientific or associate director of the United States Department is corporate general counsel engineering contributions American Bar Association of Health and Human for a Las Vegas commercial ➔ Joel H. Bootzin that further understanding Center for Professional Services Office of Medicare development firm. (LAW ’96), Chicago, is a of the technology of mineral patent attorney at Fitch, Even, Responsibility. She has been Hearings and Appeals. He Keith Turner processing. Hoffman is a longtime active member is also an associate adjunct Tabin & Flannery. He devotes (LAW ’90), Pacific Palisades, president and chief executive of Amnesty International professor at the University of his free time to his wife and Calif., opened his own firm in officer of Cardero Iron Ore and serves as part of Maryland Graduate School of two children. February 2007; the company Company, Ltd. the AIUSA South Asia Management and Technology, specializes in litigation Coordination Group. developing and teaching the Brian Graham Klaus Kretschmann involving business, real new graduate emergency- (LAW ’97), Frankfort, Ill., (ARCH ’75), Westport, Conn., estate, insurance, and Francis Reiner management distance- joined Pedersen & Houpt joined Alvarez & Marsal, a entertainment issues. (CE ’83), Ashburn, Va., is education curriculum. in July 2010. His responsibilities professional services firm, as include chairing the president of the Chlorine Sheryl Pethers national practice leader for Institute, Inc., a not-for-profit ➔ Franklin Baumann firm’s Reorganization, (LAW ’91), Chicago, was Distressed Real Estate and trade association of (PHYS ’88), Aurora, Ill., is chief Restructuring, and profiled in the June 30, 2010 Receivership Services. chlor-alkali producers, medical officer of Emdeon, Bankruptcy Practice Group. edition of the Chicago Daily packagers, distributors, a leading provider of health ➔ Donald Cassil Law Bulletin. She sits on the users, and suppliers. care revenue and payment Tobin Hensgen (CHE ’76, LAW ’82), Cook County Circuit Court. cycle management solutions. (M.P.A. ’97, M.B.A. ’99), Chicago, is director of design Richard Gerber Chicago, is assistant chief Baumann received an M.D. ➔ William Sugarman engineering for the Global (LAW ’84), St. Louis, is in of the New Haven (Conn.) from Rush Medical College (LAW ’92), Chicago, is Finishing Group of The practice at Brown & James, Police Department and heads of Rush University Medical president and owner of Astor Sherwin-Williams Company. P.C. and focuses on large-loss professional standards, which Center in 1996. Professional Search, LLC, He and his wife, Linda, have insurance subrogation claims. includes internal affairs, an executive search firm two children. He also practices in the firm’s Chris Konecki professional development, specializing in attorneys. He construction law, insurance (BA ’88), Evergreen Park, Ill., and training. Alan Acker and his wife, Nicole, have a law, and product liability was promoted to executive (LAW ’77), Columbus, Ohio, son, Reed. practice groups. vice president of the Chicago Jorge Ramirez has spent 32 years in private (LAW ’97), Chicago, is Automobile Trade Association ➔ David S. O’Dea practice with an emphasis on president of the Chicago Virginia Thomas in May 2010. He joined (M.S. ENVE ’93), Evanston, Ill., estate planning, estate and (M.B.A. ’84, LAW ’91), Federation of Labor, an the organization in 2004 is owner of the Environmental gift taxation, income taxation Detroit, was re-elected as vice umbrella group for 300 unions as director of auto show Consulting Group, Inc. and of trusts and estates, and president/president-elect of representing more than operations. Konecki and Bluestone Environmental, Inc. charitable giving issues. He the Michigan Association of 500,000 workers. He is the his wife, Colleen, have He and his wife, Maureen, also serves as president of the Law Libraries for the 2010–11 first non-Caucasian president three children. have a son, Patrick. Columbus Jewish Foundation. term. She has been director of in the group’s 114-year history. the Arthur Neef Law Library Edward Rickert at Wayne State University Law (LAW ’88), Downers Grove, School since May 2009. Ill., is a partner in the health care practice at Krieg DeVault.

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➔ Anoop Kabra William Gibbs Julia Campana (M.S. CS ’03), Chicago, is a Indrani Medhi (LAW ’04), Chicago, was (PTC ’07), Vancouver, Canada, lead engineer at Navteq Corp. elected to serve on the is a video game designer and (M.Des. ’05), Guwahati, India, He keeps busy at his job and Chicago Police Memorial soccer fan who grew received honors in 2010 for with his new baby. Foundation Advisory Board up playing the sport in her work on a text-free user in May 2010. The mission of Rio de Janeiro. interface designed to help ➔ Patrick Markey the foundation is to provide illiterate and semi-literate (LAW ’02), Chicago, was support and assistance to the Gina Bicknell individuals learn how to appointed a project officer families of Chicago police (LAW ’08), Chicago, easily use computers. She with the Chicago Bar officers who have been killed co-authored the United made Fortune magazine’s Association’s Young Lawyers or injured in the line of duty. States commentary for lists of both the “Smartest Section at the group’s annual Drafting Agreements in People in Tech” and meeting in June 2010. Jacqueline L. Anderson the Biotechnology and “Global Forum Visionaries,” and was named one of the (PSYC ’05), Lisle, Ill., and her Pharmaceutical Industries, “Young Innovators Under 35” in Technology Review, a Degee Wilhelm husband, Stephen, added a published by Oxford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology publication. (LAW ’02), Bexley, Ohio, was new addition to their family, Press in April 2010. She is an appointed to a Democratic Brooke Lynn Anderson, born in associate in the IP Transactions seat on the Ohio Elections October 2010. Group of Marshall, Gerstein Hillary Frommer ➔ Rajat Goswami Commission by then-Governor & Borun LLP, focusing (LAW ’98), New York, has (M.B.A. ’99), Chicago, is a Ted Strickland in August 2010. Ashly Iacullo on intellectual property been appointed to the board senior director with Leapfrog She has served as a self- (LAW ’05), Chicago, was transactions for universities, of directors of the Parent- Online customer acquisition. employed business and public appointed as a director with small companies, and Fortune Child Home Program, an A veteran in the online policy consultant since 2009. the Chicago Bar Association’s 500 corporations. early childhood literacy and marketing industry, he Prior to that, she was director Young Lawyers Section at school readiness program enjoys staying current with of Ohio surrogate scheduling the group’s annual meeting Brandon Lloyd that strengthens families and advancements in the digital for Obama for America. in June 2010. (AE ’08), Houston, is in prepares children for academic marketing arena. Goswami is training flow to become Allan Chung success through intensive also an avid musician. Jason Gordon a flight controller for the (ARCH ’03), Chicago, (LAW ’06), Chicago, was home visiting. Frommer is an International Space Station has been included in the appointed as a director with associate with Farrell Fritz, P.C. environmental and thermal 2000s Worldwide Edition of the Chicago Bar Association’s systems at NASA. ➔ Stuart Dorf Russell Genet Strathmore’s Who’s Who for Young Lawyers Section at (LAW ’01), Fairhope, Alaska, (LAW ’98), Frankfort, Ill., an his outstanding contributions the group’s annual meeting James Dodgen is executive vice president of intellectual property partner at and achievements in the field in June 2010. (AE ’10), Chicago, was RIISnet, LLC, an electronic Nixon Peabody, LLP, co-leads of architecture. commissioned as a second trading platform designed for the firm’s patent practice. Michael Hill lieutenant in the United the commercial real estate Holger-Christian Gaidosch (LAW ’06), Chicago, joined States Air Force in 2010. He is Michael Nicolas industry that matches real-time (LL.M ’03), Munich, American Tower Corporation stationed at Edwards Air Force (LAW ’98), Palatine, Ill., is demand to real-time supply. Germany, is a legal counsel in spring 2010 as in-house Base, where he is part of a a partner at Neal, Gerber at PlanetHome AG, Unicredit counsel in the DAS Strategic flight-test squadron. ➔ Biju Nair & Eisenberg, LLP, where Group. Unicredit Group is one Relations Division. He works (M.S. CS ’01), Chicago, is he focuses on commercial of Europe’s leading private on regulatory approvals, Michael Keefe president and chief executive disputes and business banks. Gaidosch’s practice licensing, and government (LAW ’10), Chicago, has joined officer of Sapience Knowledge counseling. He is also president focuses on all legal aspects relations for deployment Questar, Inc. as director of Systems, Inc., a telecom of the Northern Illinois of international and national of telecom infrastructure in business, and legal affairs. software startup. He and his University Executive Club. He information technology, real the Midwest. wife, Rami, enjoy spending and his wife, Janine, have two estate, employment law, and time with their three children. children, Connor and Ashley. unfair competition. He married Corwin Reese in 2009. (CE ’06), Eden Prairie, Minn., Victor Perez William Dec has earned a Pile Driving (LAW ’01), Tiffin, Ohio, was (LAW ’99), Chicago, recently Timothy Polz Analysis Signatory–Advanced named Attorney of the Year received the Asian-American (LAW ’03), Chicago, has been certificate, which ranks him by the Public Children Services Hall of Fame Award, the Cook promoted to vice president and internationally among a small Association of Ohio and County State’s Attorney’s general counsel of Midwest and elite group of pile-driving received a certificate signed Asian Pacific-American Wind Energy, LLC. He was analysis specialists. He is by then-Ohio Governor Community Leadership formerly a MWE senior project employed in the geotechnical Ted Strickland. Award, the Cook County developer and has been with engineering department of the company since 2004. Braun Intertec. Treasurer’s Asian-Pacific Andrea (Ricker) Wolfson American Entrepreneur Award, (LAW ’01), Miami Beach, and the Illinois Secretary of Fla., was appointed to the State’s Asian Pacific-American Miami-Dade County Court by Business Leadership Award. then-Florida Governor Charlie He is chief executive officer Crist in May 2010. Wolfson See What’s New Through Velocity and founder of Rockit has been an assistant state’s Ranch Productions. attorney with the 11th Judicial The Velocity Initiative is revealing new and exciting Circuit in Florida since 2001. information about your fellow classmates. In this and Justin Henry future issues of IIT Magazine, all alumni class notes (PHYS ’02), Springfield, Ill., that resulted from a Velocity interview are marked graduated from Southern with the ➔ icon. To submit your own class note Illinois University School of Medicine in May 2010. 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ALL LEONARD REIFFEL (EE ’47, M.S. ’48, PH.D. ’53) WANTED TO DO WAS MAKE IT EASIER FOR VIEWERS OF HIS POPULAR TELEVISED SCIENCE PROGRAMS TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS POINTING TO ON THE AIR.

“I got tired of saying, ‘Now, over there in the corner of the picture suburban Chicago. “It was enough to convince CBS, where it became and a little bit to the left, you can see that little thing.’ There was no a staple and an effective tool.” The Telestrator became the new “CBS way to reach into the picture,” explains Reiffel, recalling his days as a Chalkboard” and made its national network debut at Super Bowl XVI science commentator for WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago and the CBS on January 24, 1982. Network. “That’s what led to the Telestrator.” While the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EmmyTM The Telestrator—a name coined by Reiffel’s mother, Sophie, by Reiffel won in 2004 for engineering the Telestrator occupies a place of combining “television illustrator”—enabled sportscasters to sketch honor at his home in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, it is not what brings the out plays and explanations onscreen and was the forerunner of the inventor the greatest joy when he sees those familiar squiggles on the interactive video screens widely used today. Reiffel never intended Super Bowl. for his invention to be used primarily for sports broadcasting. “Every time the Telestrator comes up, I think, ‘Hey, my mom gave After patenting the Telestrator in 1971, he convinced WBBM-TV that word to the English language or—for that matter—to the world.’ weatherman John Coughlin to try drawing raindrops and fronts with That tickles me,” says Reiffel, who continues to come up with creative the device, which employed a transparent, electrically conductive ways of doing things at his three companies—Reiffel Technologies coating on a glass sheet covering the TV screen. A pencil-like stylus LLC; the Exelar Corp., which focuses on medical interests; and the could be used to write or draw freehand directly on the glass and into Luxelar Corp., which looks at how to make environments attentive to the TV image. the activities and needs of people as well as objects. Johnny Morris, the Chicago Bears all-time leading receiver and The Telestrator is not Reiffel’s only achievement. He served as former sportscaster for WMAQ-TV and WBBM-TV in Chicago, and group vice president of IIT Research Institute and led the team analyst for CBS Sports, used Reiffel’s Telestrator for the first time in that developed the world’s first nuclear reactor for industrial a Bears vs. Washington Redskins regional game broadcast in the mid- research, which was built and operated on Main Campus. He was to late-1970s. “It was a new football experiment and very basic. But I managed to draw a few lines and circle a few players with the Telestrator,” Morris recalls, in a phone conversation from his home in north “6 Questions for Telestrator Inventor Leonard Reiffel”: www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/4247541 “U.S. Cold War Plans to Explode Nuclear Device on the Moon”: www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s127959.htm

26 | iit magazine ALUMNI AWARDS Photo: BonniePhoto: Robinson 2011 FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011

IIT has been recognizing outstanding alumni through the Alumni Awards program for more than 60 years. As one of the university’s oldest Tech Traditions, the event is met with excitement, anticipation, honor, and prestige. The Alumni Award is one of IIT’s highest honors, and the brilliant and distinguished alumni and friends who return to accept their awards continue to inspire the IIT community.

Awards are given to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the university, the community, Leonard Reiffel (EE ’47, M.S. ’48, Ph.D. ’53) and/or their profession. Visit http://alumni.iit.edu to find more information about the 2011 Alumni Awards, read descriptions of each award, and submit a nomination for the 2012 Alumni Awards.

ALUMNI MEDAL ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD also the deputy director for sciences at NASA Headquarters’ Apollo COLLENS MERIT AWARD Program Office in the late 1960s, managing all manned lunar experiments and the lunar landing site-selection process. Reiffel’s GALVIN AWARD syndicated newspaper columns and broadcasts contributed to public GLOBAL SERVICE AWARD understanding of complex scientific and technical subjects. It is little wonder that his notable invention would help to bring the same LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT degree of understanding to sports fans. AWARD “The Telestrator revolutionized the coverage of sports, and OUTSTANDING YOUNG especially pro football, for viewers,” says Morris. “Football can be a ALUMNUS/A AWARD complicated game. The system made football much clearer and much more enjoyable for viewers. That’s what it’s all about.” PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD —Marcia Faye

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SWEET

Copyright: Bruno Cogez Bruno Copyright: French chef Thierry Marx [left] and David Edwards (Ph.D. CHE ’87) take a whiff of Le Whif.

ESPECIALLY ON VALENTINE’S DAY, nothing can Edwards, who is Gordon McKay Professor The science behind Le Whif is the result compare to the rich, sensory experience of of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering of years of breakthrough research done by biting into a chocolate-covered confection. But in the School of Engineering and Applied Edwards and his colleagues in drug delivery, inventor David Edwards (Ph.D. CHE ’87) has Sciences at Harvard University, introduced infectious disease treatment, and inhalable a delectable compromise for those who wake the concept of “eating by breathing” during therapies. Darsh Wasan, IIT Motorola Chair up on February 15 faced with a firm dietary the 2007/2008 debut season of Le Laboratoire, Professor of Chemical Engineering and resolve: Le Whif chocolate inhalers. Edwards part of his Artscience Labs complex, an Edwards’s doctoral advisor, recommended says that a mere puff of chocolate powder on experimental cultural center Edwards that Edwards pursue his post-doctoral the taste buds delivers satisfying flavor minus founded in Paris where art and science are education at Massachusetts Institute of the fat. explored jointly as part of the creative process. Technology, where he had the opportunity to Using the lipstick tube-sized device is “I began to think about consumer products work with pioneering biomedical researcher almost as effortless as popping a truffle into and food, and how to come up with a new Robert Langer. Years later, Edwards and your mouth. After pulling open the colorful way of eating; nothing can be more basic than Langer led an international team that inhaler—the world’s first biodegradable what we put into our mouths,” says the soft- designed a whiffleball-like microparticle model, made of a form of polylactic acid—you spoken Edwards in a telephone conversation to deliver medicine, including insulin and place it on your lips and inhale gently, up to from Paris, where he lives during the majority testosterone, by dry, aerosol mist inhalation. eight to 10 times before Le Whif is depleted. of the year with his wife, Aurélie, and their “When David was a student at IIT, I saw In addition to its sweets line, featuring such three children. He collaborated with a team enormous potential in him,” says Wasan, who flavors as raspberry chocolate and mint that included his Harvard students and the co-authored the textbook Interfacial Transport chocolate, Le Whif also comes in coffee Michelin-rated French chef Thierry Marx Processes and Rheology with Edwards and MIT flavor, including the caffeine. A vitamin before introducing a Le Whif prototype in colleague Howard Brenner. “I have very high supplement line, featuring an antioxidant spring 2009. Le Whif can be purchased expectations of my students, but he exceeded Le Whif, a multivitamin Le Whif, and a online for approximately $2.50 each and is all of them.” “Smart Age” Le Whif—with vitamin D and today carried in about 300 stores worldwide. resveratrol—provides 100 percent of the daily recommended dose while bypassing the digestive tract, making absorption more efficient.

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OF SUCCESS TAKE A LOOK AT US! Illinois Institute of Technology students will be the future leaders who drive change in areas of global significance: energy independence, improving people’s health, protecting the environment, and strengthening national security. The IIT STEM+ (Science and Psychology, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Business, and In 1997, Edwards founded Advanced Architecture) Educational and Scholarship Initiative will provide Inhalation Research, Inc., the first of several organizations focusing on innovative financial scholarship assistance to qualified students pursuing an IIT drug-delivery technologies. He is currently undergraduate degree. a board member and co-founder of Pulmatrix, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical We also offer guaranteed on-campus company developing broad-spectrum housing, a low student:faculty ratio, plus inhaled therapies that treat and prevent such our unique Interprofessional Projects diseases as influenza, asthma, and chronic (IPRO) Program, which utilizes our pulmonary disease. new 13,000-square-foot Idea Shop, Edwards is passionate about developing and where students from various academic IIT HAS BEEN commercializing affordable and effective dry- disciplines work together to tackle a NAMED A powder vaccines and drugs for distribution real-world problem. FISKE 2011 in poverty-stricken countries, and in 2003, BEST BUY he co-founded the nonprofit group Medicine SCHOOL! in Need (MEND) to carry out that mission. With offices in Africa, France, and the United States, MEND is supported primarily by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has SPECIAL IIT REFERRAL PROGRAM OFFERS: received grants totaling $18.9 million for IIT Scarlet Hawk Award: Admitted undergraduate nanoparticle research, including work students referred by a friend of the university are on an inhalable Bacillus Calmette-Guérin eligible. Annual awards range from $1,000–$2,500. vaccine for tuberculosis and a First-Semester Book Voucher: New first-year or vaccine against malaria. transfer students who enroll at the university upon The World Economic Forum the recommendation of a friend of the university will recently named MEND a receive a $100 book voucher toward the purchase of 2011 Technology Pioneer. their first-semester’s books.

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iit magazine 29 Photo: Phase One Photography | alumninews For information about upcoming alumni events listed below and other alumni activities, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations Upcoming Alumni Events at 312.567.5040, [email protected], or alumni.iit.edu.

National Society of Black Engineers Alumni Reception Wednesday, March 23– CS++: Celebrating 40+ Years Sunday, March 27, 2011 of Computing at IIT St. Louis Honor the early pioneers of computing at IIT at an event planned The reception will be held in conjunction for fall 2011. Additional information with the National Society of Black Engineers will be announced this spring. annual convention. At the convention, IIT’s own Nate Thomas, former director of admission, will be honored as the 2011 recipient of the Golden Torch Legacy Award.

Mies’ 125th Birthday Celebration An Evening for Psychology at Alumni Awards Luncheon Monday, March 28, 2011 Goodman Theatre Friday, April 15, 2011 Thursday, April 7, 2011 6–8 p.m. Hermann Hall S. R. Crown Hall theWit IIT Main Campus IIT Main Campus 201 North State Street Chicago Chicago Chicago Join fellow IIT Alumni Association members Celebrate with the Mies van der Rohe Goodman Theatre to celebrate the accomplishments of our Society at the annual birthday party for 170 North Dearborn Street distinguished alumni. The day will begin with Mies. This year’s cocktail party will include a Chicago a reception at 11 a.m. followed by a formal presentation by Wright Auction on how to tell luncheon and presentation of awards at noon. “real vs. fake” Mies furniture. Join alumni of the College of Psychology for a reception at theWit to honor the career of IPRO Day Tickets are $50 per person or $125 per person Distinguished Professor Chow Lam, former A p r i l 2 011 including a one-year membership in the Mies head of the Rehabilitation Counseling IIT Main Campus van der Rohe Society. For more information, Division. Then enjoy the social comedy God Chicago contact Kelly Merrion at 312.567.5025 or of Carnage at Goodman Theatre, followed by [email protected]. a post-performance talk. Tickets are available Come back to campus to see the work of for $250 by contacting Olivia Anderson at student teams from the Interprofessional Fifth Annual Karl Menger Lecture 312.567.6750 or [email protected]. Projects (IPRO) Program during their formal and Award presentations and exhibits at IPRO Day. Monday, April 4, 2011 Society for Industrial & Organizational For more information, including volunteer Psychology, Inc. Alumni Reception judging opportunities, please visit http://ipro. The McCormick Tribune Campus Center Friday, April 15, 2011 iit.edu/ipro-day or contact Jennifer Keplinger IIT Main Campus at [email protected]. Chicago Hilton Chicago Join mathematics alumni for this day, which The reception will be held in conjunction American Institute of Architects will include a lecture and reception, to honor with the Society for Industrial & Alumni Reception Karl Menger. Organizational Psychology, Inc. Thursday, May 12, 2011 annual conference. New Orleans The reception will be held in conjunction with the American Institute of Architects annual convention. Watch your inbox and the Alumni Association website IIT Commencement for information about IIT alumni events in your region. Saturday, May 14, 2011 For additional information, please contact Marian Quirk IIT Main Campus at 312.567.5017 or [email protected]. Chicago

30 | iit magazine Your gift helps keep the lights on. Give a little or give a lot. Either way, you’re helping generate bright ideas.

You don’t need a fortune to make a meaningful gift to IIT. Thousands of alumni make annual gifts to the IIT Fund in support of scholarships, laboratories, and, yes, even the cost of light bulbs to keep our students out of the dark. Whether it’s $10, $100, or $1,000, your gift helps students make new discoveries and hit on the kind of bright ideas that IIT grads are known for. Visit www.iit.edu/giving or call Brandon O’Hare at 312.567.5029 to learn more about supporting IIT students.

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Class of 1960 Celebrates 50 The Class of 1960 celebrated its 50th anniversary on September 25, 2010. Other IIT alumni from earlier class years who attended the annual Golden Society Reunion joined the group. Photo: Bonnie Robinson Martin Cooper NAE Induction [Left to right] IIT National Academy of Engineering members Darsh Wasan, vice president for international affairs; Arun Phadke (M.S. EE ’61); John Anderson, IIT president; Bhakta Rath (Ph.D. MET ’63); and Martin Cooper, life trustee (EE ’50, M.S. ’57); along with Life Trustee Michael Galvin (LAW ’78), at a reception honoring new NAE inductee Cooper at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. Photo: chriscrossphotography.com

Alumni Event in New York Richard Lindsey (CHE ’76) and his wife, Rebecca, hosted a gathering for alumni in their Manhattan home. [Left to right] Mostafa Analoui (M.S. EE ’87), Lindsey, and Walter Ciciora (EE ’64, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69) Photo: Joy Malone

Student Gift Students from the 2010 Student Gift Committee held a ceremony during Homecoming 2010 to dedicate furniture purchased for The McCormick Tribune Campus Center using funds they raised. Photo: Bonnie Robinson

Presidential Space University Regent Robert Galvin delivers a toast at the conclusion of a space dedication ceremony honoring IIT past presidents Henry Linden (Ph.D. CHE ’52), Thomas Martin, and John Rettaliata. Triangle Winery Tour Photo: Bonnie Robinson Alumni of the Armour Chapter of Triangle fraternity and their spouses went on a Southwest Michigan winery tour in August. 32 | iit magazine Photo: Brooke Beardsley (EE ’99, M.S. ’01) and Sara Kryda Beardsley (ARCH ’02) AEPi Tour of Campus AEPi alumni visited campus for a tour and lunch. [Left to right] Robert Abrams (PHYS ’59), Larry Kane (MET ’62), Chuck Kramer (ARCH ’57), President John Anderson, Ernie Schubert (BE ’62), students Trevor Townsend and Raquel Alvarez, David Cohen (EE ’60, M.S. ’64), Don Weil (PHYS ’62), Jay Fisher (CHE ’63), and Chuck Chadd (IE ’64). Later that evening, Board of Trustees member Vic Morgenstern (CHE ’64) and his wife, Faye, hosted the group for Wasan Lecture dinner at their home. Photo: Evan Venie [Left to right] Richard Lindsey (CHE ’76), T. S. “Rama” Ramakrishnan (Ph.D. CHE ’85), Vice President for International Affairs Darsh Wasan, Susan Solomon (CHEM ’77), Hamid Arastoopour (M.S. GE ’75, Ph.D. ’78), Life Trustee Kaarina Koskenalusta, and President John Anderson at the 2010 Darsh T. Wasan Lectureship Dinner, which followed a campus-wide lecture delivered by Solomon Photo: Bonnie Robinson

FOX Backlot Tour Andrea Berry (CS ’84), senior vice president of broadcast operations, FOX Network Engineering and Operations, arranged for IIT alumni to tour the FOX backlot in southern California. The group is on the New York street set of Hello, Dolly! Photo: Jenna Albright

Idea Shop Tour Connecticut Alumni Event Indiana Alumni Event Ray Ballard (CHE ’10), Michael Morley Walter Ciciora (EE ’64, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’69) Life Trustee Dirk Lohan and his wife, (BME ’08), Helen Buzyna, and George Buzyna [right] hosted Connecticut-area alumni at his Cathy, attend an alumni event in Beverly (ME ’60, M.S. GT ’62) gather for a reception home. With Ciciora are Judith Platt (EE ’59, Shores, Ind., at the home of Harold Olin and tour of the Idea Shop at University M.S. ’62, Ph.D. ’71) and her husband, Marvin. (ARCH ’54), along with other IIT alumni and Technology Park at IIT during Mies Society members. Homecoming 2010. Photo: Bonnie Robinson

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Velocity Welcomes New Ambassadors, Plans Programming for New Year

In fall 2010, The Velocity Initiative expanded its ranks, welcoming 10 new student ambassadors and continuing to organize interviews with Chicago-area alumni. For the alumni who visited Main Campus during IIT’s Homecoming, the event provided a fun setting to connect with the ambassadors. Many of these alumni were previously interviewed through Velocity, the university’s alumni re-engagement program, now in its second year. As a result of alumni feedback through Velocity, the Alumni Board Volunteer Management Committee has continued to develop programming in the top three areas of volunteer interest (mentorship, speakers bureau, and admissions). The members of the committee have invited many alumni, including those interviewed through Velocity, to volunteer in piloting such programs as a speakers bureau on campus and mentoring opportunities.

VelocityDiscoveries Fun facts about IIT alumni interviewed through Velocity:

A B.A.C. ARCH alumnus set a world record for solo- flying a hot air balloon from Rockford, Ill., to Burma. His balloon, which has IIT’s logo on the side, is in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

A B.S. ARCH alumnus worked to create some of the first pedestrian malls in the United States.

A Ph.D. BE alumnus worked to develop the first Energy Resources Council before the existence of the Department of Energy.

A B.S. and M.S. CE alumnus was the head project manager for Millennium Park in Chicago.

A B.S. EE alumnus wrote some of the United States’ defense policies regarding the sustainability of the nation’s defense and satellite technologies.

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the forward momentum of iit through alumni 34 | iit magazine obituaries inmemoriam

Stuart Brent Ralph Erisman William Zion John Handbury ME ’40 DSGN ’50 LAW ’72 ARSC ’36 Bensenville, Ill. Chicago Saint Helena Island, S.C.

Before there was a Borders bookstore or a Barnes & Robert Kerney Gustav Barnes Thomas Ryan Noble or even an Amazon.com, there was Stuart Brent, FPSE ’42, EE ’46, M.S. IE ’51 EE ’72 EE ’48 Sun City, Calif. Palatine, Ill. a venerable book establishment founded in Chicago Chula Vista, Calif. in 1946. Brent, its namesake proprietor, opened his Edwin Storer Manickam Annamalai original one-room shop—Seven Stairs—with a $300 Kenneth Jacobs FPSE ’51 M.S. CE ’75 GI loan and a dream of selling books. His first customer ME ’43 Sheboygan Falls, Wis. Woodridge, Ill. Redlands, Calif. requested a book he didn’t have in stock, but gradually Douglas Drake Joan Clements other visitors came in for books and records Brent did John Volakakis ARCH ’52 LAW ’77 carry, and for literary conversation. CE ’43 Milwaukee, Wis. Western Springs, Ill. Arlington Heights, Ill. Among his notable clientele were the writers Lois Kozman Ginger Esler Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and Ernest William Zechel DSGN ’52 M.S. REHB ’79 Hemingway. Additionally, in the 1950s, Brent hosted the FPSE ’46 St. Louis Itasca, Ill. Rye, N.H. television show “Books and Brent,” which aired locally Joseph Lokay Marvin McCray and was then syndicated nationwide. Brent eventually Robert Boyar CHE ’52, M.S. ’53, M.S. PSYC ’83, Ph.D. ’87 closed Seven Stairs and opened a larger bookstore, ME ’47 Ph.D. ’55 Tallahassee, Fla. La Grange, Ill. Monroeville, Pa. Stuart Brent, on North Michigan Avenue, where he William Grundmann continued to recommend favorite books and introduce Warren Long Sophie Koch-Weser ME ’85 customers to the joy of reading. Changes in the book- IE ’48 DSGN ’54 Oregon, Ill. buying business and an increase in area rents led Brent Aurora, Ill. North Andover, Mass. Beverly Tiesenga to close his bookstore in 1996. William Abbott Don Masterton LAW ’85 Brent was preceded in death by three wives— EE ’49 M.S. DSGN ’54 Oak Brook, Ill. Jeanette, Hope, and Caroline. He is survived by three Brooktondale, N.Y. Marblehead, Mass. daughters, including Amy Wexler, who continues to Susan Epich Robert Batch Joann Matthews M.B.A. ’88 operate the Stuart Brent Children’s Book Club, and ME ’49 PHYS ’65 Oak Lawn, Ill. five sons. Burr Ridge, Ill. Fort Myers, Fla. Juliana Veeck Brosnan Otto Curth Nick Lorandos Ph.D. PSYC ’94 Richard Fu Hsien Yang ME ’49 CE ’66 Chicago Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Northbrook, Ill. Valparaiso, Ind. Brett Gorovsky Lawrence Lange Robert Phillips LAW ’02 Professor Richard Fu Hsien Yang, a member of the IIT ME ’49 ARCH ’68, M.S. ’70, Buffalo Grove, Ill. faculty from 1962–1973, was an enthusiastic educator Auburn, Calif. CRP ’72 who was known for challenging his students and for Greeley, Colo. Eugene Dymek his traits of honesty, humility, and sincerity. A native FPSE ’50 David McCoy of Changji, China, Yang received his bachelor’s degree Fontana, Wis. M.S. SOCT ’69 from National Wuhan University and his master’s and West Nyack, N.Y. doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Gregory Streb ME ’50 Allen Oposnow University of Illinois. After serving on the faculty of Crystal Lake, Ill. ARCH ’71 South Dakota State University from 1950–52, Yang Lincoln, Mich. worked for the Andrew Corporation before joining IIT. He developed several patents and was named an IEEE fellow in 1967. Yang was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years, Jean. He is survived by two daughters, a son, a grandson, and many nieces and nephews.

iit magazine | 35 rewind Thinking Machine Pioneer BY MARCIA FAYE

hile brilliant polymath and With the immense amount of available a thinking machine.’ I said to myself, ‘Wow— Nobel Laureate Herbert information and networked electrical thinking and machine? What did he mean A. Simon, who died 10 devices, scientists are facing the same kinds by ‘machine’ and what did he mean by W years ago, performed of problems but now in the context of digital ‘thinking?’’ Herb gave us all a copy of the notable research in the specific domains decision making and making the digital IBM701 manual as an example of a machine of psychology, administration, economics, space smarter.” because we didn’t yet have a computer and artificial intelligence, his work in human Simon left IIT to help develop the at Carnegie. decision making and problem solving, and School of Industrial Administration at “I took the manual home that night, and their place within social institutions, served Carnegie Mellon University, where he I remember this vividly,” says Feigenbaum, to unify his many interests, sharply defining held a variety of positions over the next acknowledging that by dawn, he had and cementing his reputation. 52 years. He expanded his research into undergone an epiphany. “How many From 1942–49, Simon was at IIT, where human thinking with the help of a new times in one’s life does one have a born- he served as a professor of political science machine—the computer—and became a again experience? I became a born-again and chair of the Department of Political and leader in artificial intelligence. In an email, something that is now called a computer Social Sciences. During that time he also Edward A. Feigenbaum, Kumagai Professor scientist. I knew then what I wanted to do: published the seminal book Administrative of Computer Science Emeritus at Stanford It was staying on with Herb Simon.” Behavior, considered a major development University, recalls how he became one of For his dissertation, with Simon as in understanding the organizational Simon’s doctoral students, a decision he has mentor and later co-developer, Feigenbaum decision-making process. never regretted. constructed EPAM, an influential “Simon inaugurated the embodiment of “I took the course Mathematical Models information-processing model of human intelligence into computing, pioneered the in the Social Sciences from Herb Simon in learning, and then moved on to build incorporation of computing into decision my senior year at Carnegie Tech. In January DENDRAL, the first expert system in making, and seeded the development of 1956, after the New Year break, Herb walked artificial intelligence. computer science in the process,” says in and said, ‘Over Xian-He Sun, professor and chair of IIT’s Christmas, Allen Department of Computer Science. “His work Newell and continues to have great importance today. I invented Herbert Simon Collection (Carnegie Mellon Libraries): http://diva.library.cmu.edu/Simon

Herbert A. Simon [second from right], winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, stands with other laureates. Image used courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University Archives

36 | iit magazine LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

IIT students know that traditional coursework is only the beginning of a rich educational experience. With more than 100 student organizations on campus— from social groups to academic and discipline-based clubs—opportunities to grow and excel beyond the classroom are around every corner. It’s what we call distinctively defining the IIT graduate.

SPOTLIGHT: ILLINOIS TECH ROBOTICS Illinois Tech Robotics is a student-led organization that provides IIT students hands-on experience applying robotics technologies. This includes putting their skills to the test by building full-sized robots as well as mentoring high school students through the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program.

Do you know talented young people who would excel as IIT students? Refer these potential IIT students to us. To learn more, contact Gerald P. Doyle, To learn more about vice provost for undergraduate admission and financial aid, at [email protected] or Illinois Tech Robotics, contact Sabrina Fesko at 312.567.5203. [email protected].

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What are Tech Traditions? Tech Traditions are cherished activities and experiences—large and small— that are distinctive to the IIT community. From longstanding IIT customs and beloved campus happenings to students’ personal favorite memories, Tech Traditions create the connective fibers of IIT.