March Madness was first used to refer to basketball by an Illinois high school official, Henry V. Porter, in 1939, but the term didn’t find its way to the NCAA tournament until CBS broadcaster Brent Musburger (who used to be a sportswriter in Chicago) used it during coverage of...
Petfood Essentialstakes education to the next level. The pre-conference seminar dives deep into industry hot topics and takes place the day before Petfood Forum. In 2025, Petfood Essentials is focused on pet food sustainability and mapping your journey to get started. “Petfood Forum provides b...
A curriculum vitae (CV) is a lengthy document describing your academic and professional achievements. You use it to apply for jobs in educational institutions, such as university research or graduate school. Plus, you might need one to get a grant or accreditation from a fellowship. You knowwh...
Held in Champaign, Illinois, the event featured an impressive lineup of artists, including Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Loretta Lynn, and Sammy Hagar with Eddie Van Halen. Farm Aid raised over $9 million and has since become an annual event, providing crucial support for independent farmers across...
debuted the Photonics West industry conference. Before the adoption of the term “photonics,” the field was frequently referred to as “optics.” Technologies that blurred the line between optics and electronics were referred to as “opto-electronics,” which is still used today in certain context...
A good place to start in understanding generative AI models is with the human brain, says Jeff Hawkins in his 2004 book, “On Intelligence.” Hawkins, a computer scientist, brain scientist, and entrepreneur, presented his work in a 2005 session at PC Forum, which was an annual conference of...
gives them the opportunity to create an industrial society and join the modern age. This is something that in the long run would bode well for the future of humanity," said Khairy Tourk, professor of economics with the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology in ...
In August 1999, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and administrators from around the country assembled at the The Next Millennium Conference: Ending Domestic Violence to reflect on the historical milestones of the domestic violence movement: celebration of advances made in combating, and re...
In one of his lectures in the series entitled "Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata" delivered at the University of Illinois in December , he frames comput- ing machines as tools in-between mathematical and experimental methods for studying certain problems there are large...
NEW YORK MINUTE:Mayor Eric Adams is expected to publicly address the detailed sexual misconduct complaint filed against him — more on that below — for the first time today at his weekly, wide-ranging news conference. The lawsuit came on a tough day for the mayor: His schools chancellorrefut...