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Inside the Net
(show #139, aired 7/17/01)
Using the example of migraine headaches, technology correspondent Kris Hammond
gives a studio demonstration as to what really happens when we perform a search
on the Internet. We tie-in with the Museum of Science and Industry's new
exhibit "NetWorld: Inside the Internet: Understanding the New Technology."
Outside the Box
(show #138, aired 7/10/01)
Harry Gottlieb, the president of Jellyvision, conducts a reverse interview of
technology correspondent Kris Hammond. Kris describes the history of the
company which has created the popular CD-ROM game "You Don't Know Jack"
and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."
Reducing Error
(show #137, aired July 3)
Elizabeth Brackett visits the E.R. at Northwestern Medical Center. Dr. Mark
Rosenbloom demonstrates the PEPID - a hand held device he developed which holds
the full Emergency Physician's Information Database and a lot more. The item
has been featured on the hit show "E.R."
Forensic Dentistry
(show #123, aired 2/13/01)
John Kenney, DDS, MS, uses Internet technology to identify victims of some of
the biggest disasters in history.
DuPage County Coroner's Office
American Dental Association
Academy of General Dentistry
American Academy of Forensic Science
United States Army Central Identification Lab
Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Detroit News "Identifying the victims: Disaster-Mortuary team helps speed
the process"
National Association of Medical Examiners
Solar and Power
(show #134, aired 5/29/01)
Aaron Freeman visits the Midwest Center for Green Technology and interviews
Department of Environment Commissioner William Abolt to learn about the city's
project to develop a renewable resources facility and to create 100 new jobs.
He then heads south to the Illinois Institute of Technology
where Associate Professor of Industrial Design Bill Becker
explains the new holographic photovoltaic solar power system and shows the
panels installed on the roof of I.I.T.
We are interview Said Al-Hallaj, Ph.D., the Research Professor in Chemical
Engineering who demonstrates how the energy from the solar panels are diverted
into a fuel cell which provides power for an L.E.D. billboard on the campus and
converts the solar energy into water. Dr. Hallaj became interested in the
technology in his homeland of Jordan where both oil and water are scarce. He
believes this breakthrough may divert war in the Middle East.
Virtual Reality Medicine
(show #101, aired 7/10/00)
At the University of Illinois at Chicago, 3-D graphics and super fast computers
are for the weak of heart.
Correspondent Elizabeth Brackett gets a peek at the future of medical teaching
and diagnosis. Dr. Russell Pearl, Associate Professor of Surgery, and Mary
Rasmussen, a Research Assistant Professor, demonstrate a new procedure known as
biomedical teleimmersion.
Developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at UIC, this state
of-the-art equipment allows physicians and students to view accurate anatomical
images in three dimensions, allowing total manipulation in real time. What once
required endless hours of study in medical textbooks and human subjects is
achieved at the speed of light.
UIC'sVirtual Reality in Medicine Website
Faces of Science - Fermilab's Young Kee Kim
(show #104, aired 8/8/00)
Advances in science over the last century have launched astronauts into space
and beamed conversations across oceans. Now one remaining frontier is being
conquered in Chicago, and it's smaller than an atom.
Co-Host Aaron Freeman profiles physicist Young Kee Kim, of Batavia's
Fermilab
. Currently, Young Kee Kim is researching particle physics' only undiscovered
particle, the Higgs Particle. Recently, Fermilab has proved several particle
physics tenets true with the discovery of the Top Quark in 1995, and the Tau
Neutrino just last month.
A discovery of the Higgs particle might help describe the mechanism by which
individual particles gain and sustain their own masses, unlocking a currently
unknown secret of our universe. Beginning at the end of the month, Young Kee
Kim will collide protons and antiprotons in Fermilab's Tevatron Accelerator,
with the ultimate hope that the product of such a collision is the elusive
Higgs Particle. For more information on particle physics and Young Kee Kim's
work, visit Fermilab at: www.fnal.gov/pub/hep_descript.html
Illinois State Police Forensic Science Center
(show #101, aired 7/10/00)
Criminals beware, Inspector Clousseau now has some powerful allies. James J.
Kearney, Laboratory Director for the Illinois State Police Forensic Science
Center and his staff of hi-tech investigators show correspondent Aaron Freeman
how law enforcement agencies convict criminals with little more than a
fingerprint or drop of blood.
Utilizing DNA analysis techniques like PCR (polymerase chain reactions),
forensic scientists can multiply something as minuscule as a single strand of
DNA, so further analysis and comparison are possible. We also learn about new
methods of fingerprinting, including the use of lasers, and AFIS, the Automated
Fingerprint Identification System, which has over two-and-a-half million
fingerprints catalogued from Illinois alone.
Finally, Aaron gets a lesson in projectile ballistics, which helps police to
conclusively determine if the suspect weapon was actually involved in the
crime. How do they do this? With a tank of water. With all the new technology
and methods the Illinois Crime Lab has at its disposal, criminals will be
forced to think twice, or suffer the consequences.
Illinois State Police Home Page
Testing Technology
(show #134, aired 5/29/01)
Kris Hammond demonstrates some product testing taking place at
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., a not-for-profit Northbrook company,
which sets the standard for public safety for a multitude of household
products.
Cells and Silicon
(show #133, aired 5/22/01)
Kris Hammond interviews Professor Milan Mrksich, Associate Professor of
Chemistry at the University of Chicago, who is combining the fields of
chemistry, biology and engineering to create a hybrid between a living human
cell and an electronic chip. A beating heart cell, for example, may someday
become the power source behind an electronic robot.
E-mail your questions (s-koppes@uchicago.edu)
Portable Concierge
Kris Hammond introduces a company that has created a personal
concierge that accompanies the traveler. The device orders room
service, finds a movie or a restaurant and saves the information for each new
city.
Bye Bye Backpack
(show #129, aired 5/8/01)
Correspondent Kris Hammond takes us to a small startup company within
DePaul University named GoReader
that has developed a portable device which holds over 300 college textbooks and
takes the space of only one book.
Looking like a Palm Pilot, these e-books allow the user to highlight and take
notes and save the information for printing or sharing with classmates.
General Bob
(show #130, aired 5/1/01)
Elizabeth Brackett "interviews" General Bob, a robotic pharmacist that
dispenses drugs at Lutheran General Hospital, cutting costs and errors.
A Step Ahead: IDEO
(show #131, aired 4/24/01)
Technology correspondent Kris Hammond visits IDEO,
a Chicago company that's designed the Organ Recovery System Kidney Transporter
which multiplies the availability of transplants by keeping kidneys alive
longer during transport.
Kris also looks at their Brivo Box, a refrigerated mailbox to hold packages that
are delivered when the resident isn't at home; the Procter & Gamble
NeatSqueeze Toothpast Tube and the 3Com Palm V handheld computer.
Signs of the Times
(show #128, aired 4/3/01)
Kris Hammond takes us to a Chicago-based company named Siren
Technologies that's using digital imaging to revolutionize the way
companies advertise around the world and how consumers gather information to
buy.
Hand in Hand
(show #127, aired 3/37/01)
Kris Hammond interviews Northwestern University researchers Ed Colgate and
Michael Peshkin who run the Laboratory
for Intelligent Mechanical Systems. They have built COBOTS - computer
assisted robots - that allow the human hand to lift and carry heavy equipment.
COBOTS can be controlled to stop at precise boundaries.
The technology is used in the auto industry. Cobotics will soon be combined with
another emerging technology called haptic interfacing or the human intelligence
of touch. Surgeons will use cobotic/haptic tools to feel and cut delicate
tissues without going too deep.
MIT Touch Lab
Spy Cam
(show #104, aired 8/8/01)
Correspondent Kris Hammond visits Perceptual Robotics, a
company that provides digital cameras to private companies as well as public
places such as the Adler Planetarium. The cameras allow
viewers to observe the activities of the organizations over the Internet.
Visit Kris Hammond's Webcam in his
office at Northwestern University.
Wireless Guru
(show #124, aired 2/20/01)
Veronica Williams gears us up with a personal electronic arsenal. See what
pager, wireless phone, PDA and laptop is best for you.
Veronica Williams' Book "Wireless Computing Primer"
Article by Veronica Williams on Ezine
Veronica Williams keynote address at
COMDEX/DiscoverIT Enterprise Mobility Showcase.
CNN "Wireless Goes Corporate"
Top Dog
(show #123, aired 2/13/01)
Robotic pets learn, respond and interact with their human owners using
artificial intelligence. We take a look at some of the hottest sellers
including Furby and Poo-Chi from Tiger Electronics in
Vernon Hills, Ill. and the Aibo, an electronic dog from
Sony.
ZDNet - "Robot dog welcomed into human homes with open arms"
Wired News - "Aibo fetches the personal robot"
Electronic Dogs - overview
Visions of the Future
(show #122, aired 2/6/01)
Find out what people in the 30s,40s, and 50s thought cars of the future would
be like.
Wired Wheels
(show #122, aired 2/6/01)
Technology correspondent Kris Hammond shows us how new electronic technology is
changing today's cars.
General Motors
Ford Motors
IBM and the automotive industry
OnStar Communications
I-Radio from Motorola
Car & Driver Magazine online
Cyber Star: The X-Man
(show #120, aired 1/16/01)
Host Elizabeth Brackett visits with the X-Man, the new MP3 cyberstar of the
local music group La Junta, in Humbolt Park.
MP3.com
Napster
Chicago Hip Hop.com
The Source Article on Chicago hip hop bands boycotting House of
Blues
Boca - Urban Music on the Internet
Online Hip Hop 'zine The Source
Chicago Hip Hop -- Who's Who
Rocky Kolb's Universe
As astronomers explore and define our skies, one of the many questions remaining
unanswered is, "What makes up our universe?"
Astronomers are just beginning to understand some of the materials that comprise
the known universe but a large portion of it is still unknown. Dark matter is a
leading theory to explain the bulk of the universe's composition but
astronomers still haven't ever seen or cataloged it.
Instead it's astrophysicists who are trying to figure out dark matter. At Fermilab
out side of Chicago astrophysicist Edward Kolb works doesn't spend his days
looking at the sky through a telescope. Instead Kolb works with a chalk board
and a computer. See how these items help him search for dark matter in the
universe.
Check out Fermilab's events, open to the public!
Baby Press Conference
(show #119, aired 1/9/01)
Everyone cannot be at your baby's delivery but a new service at Evanston
Hospital may change the size of the "virtual waiting room."
Parents are now able to webcast their new arrival to family and friends across
the company shortly after the delivery. Using digital video cameras and
streaming video, parents can show-off their newborns to the ends of the
internet.
Senior Net
(show #119, aired 1/9/01)
Senior Net is a non-profit, nationwide organization that
teaches people 55 and older how to use computers and how to go online. It
alleviates people's concern of ruining their computers through misuse or
hitting the wrong button, which, for many senior citizens, is a major reason
why they don't use them.
Teachers at Senior Net help their students overcome these apprehensions. Senior
Net is also popular because it focuses on websites that its students are
chiefly interested in such as finance, retirement, vacations and, above all,
health.
SeniorNet - Chicago Chapter
Levy Center
312-744-0784
Coordinator: Phyllis DiPiero
Skokie Chapter (847) 675-2200
Northbrook Chapter (847) 205-9480
Flossmoor (708) 799-7650
Vermi-Composting: Pay Dirt
(show# 110, aired 10/3/00)
Ron Wolford of the Illinois Cooperative Extension and Chicago Tomorrow's Aaron
Freeman show us an alternate to throwing food waste in the garbage. A
traditional method called Vermi-composting uses worms to turn garbage into a
fertilizer that you can use for your garden. Red Wigglers are a special type of
worm that eats food garbage. The waste food goes through the worm and the
result, castings, are a very good plant fertilizer. Many people around Chicago
have engaged in this method of composting. Aaron Freeman takes us to Scott
Joplin School on Chicago's South Side to see how they are using the Red
Wigglers in class. We then visit at "God's Gang" in the Robert Taylor Homes,
where inner city kids are earning money by selling their vermi-compost.
Illinois Cooperative Extension
Ron Wolford
phone: 773.233.0476
fax: 773.233.0910
Scott Joplin School
Ann Bethely, Teacher
phone: 773.535.3425
fax: 773.535.3442
God's Gang
Carolyn Thomas
phone: 773.264.2652
The Illinois Technology Showcase
(show # 115, aired 11/21/00)
Hundreds of companies rolled out their new high-tech products including robots,
computers that connect mouse, keyboard and monitor without wires, super-powered
servers and more at this year's Illinois Technology Showcase.
At the mid-October showcase, Illinois-based Motorola Inc.
debuted phones that use new technology to allow you to surf the
Web from anywhere and use your phone as a two-way radio.
Want to read your e-mail on a road trip? Check your stocks? Order clothes online
while you bask at the beach? Find out where your kids are? These mobile
workstations make it easier.
At Your Service
(show # 115, aired 11/21/00)
Once upon a time, voice recognition was science fiction. Now Deerfield-based
Webley Systems Inc. has harnessed the technology and turned it into an
electronic communications assistant, Webley.
Webley can answer your phone, make your calls, send and receive faxes and even
read your e-mail. The technology allows you to program Webley so it knows your
voice. Then all you have to do is say what you want.
Designed for busy people, this technology sorts through the morass of pagers,
mobile phones, e-mail and faxes and allows you to decide when and how people
contact you.
Reel Violence
(show #112, aired 10/24/01)
Is there a correlation between viewing violence and acting violent? Chicago
Tomorrow talks with Dr. John Murray, Professor of Developmental Psychology at
Kansas State University; Northwestern University's Dr. John
Miller and Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, Professor of Pediatrics and
Preventative Medicine to determine what percentage media violence plays
in increasing aggressive behavior in teenagers.
Tiny Titan
(show #111, aired 10/17/00)
The threat of biological war is not just a concern for a select few countries
and emerging technologies are being developed to combat the threat of
biological war. In a 10 year joint venture between russian and american
scientists a possible warning system for outbreaks of diseases is being
created. At Argonne National Laboratories, a "bio-chip" has been
developed to serve as an early warning system for strains of manufactured
diseases. In a process that usually takes weeks, these bio-chips are able to
process information in hours. The information about an infecting disease can be
analyzed to determine if a lethal strain is indeed a terrorist attack.
The bio-chip also has everyday uses to prevent the spread of naturally occuring
mutations of viruses and diseases. A new strain of the flu, for example can be
detected in a patient, it's genetic make-up can be seen and, most importantly,
its weaknesses can be identified. And since the results from the chip are
usable in hours, harsh strains of the virus can be contained and be
neutralized.
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