In the early 2000s Institute of Design Associate Professor Laura Forlano researched community wireless networks, the early, hyperlocal “Wi-Fi networks” created by cities and other municipalities. That...
There was a time when Ian Fleming (LAW ’15), just for fun, typed up contracts for his favorite baseball icons—this many dollars for that many years. He’d pick a team and peg every player. He was eight...
From their home in Bagasara, India, Piyush Desai (M.S. EE ’04, Ph.D. ’09) grew up helping his father fix household items, ranging from motors to gramophones to old radios that operated using valves...
YJ Ahn (M.D.M. ’06) seems too warm and approachable to be an agent of radical change. Yet those are the traits that she shares with her signature project, the Waymo Driver: a combination of both...
Metra train tracks run at ground level through the Chicago South Side neighborhood of South Shore, where Dawveed Scully (ARCH ’10) spent his early years. An urban designer and associate director at...
Even if it doesn’t often feel that Americans can agree on much, there is at least one major issue that brings people together, regardless of political ideology: online privacy. More than 80 percent of...
After spending more than a year helping to guide the Illinois Tech Athletics Department through the pandemic, Usha Gilmore has been named the university’s director of athletics. She will also serve as...
Nataki Muhammad, owner of an ice cream shop in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, wandered through a sea of booths as excited Illinois Institute of Technology students presented answers to real-world...
Illinois Institute of Technology’s inaugural Grainger Computing Innovation Prize attracted 25 student research teams and culminated in a grand finale event on November 10, with the grand prize awarded...
In recognition of Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees Chairman Michael P. Galvin’s long-standing support and his integral role in shaping the vision and future of Illinois Tech, IIT...
