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Chicago’s Growing Tech Incubator Scene

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By Crystin Immel and Shanika Gunaratna contributing producers, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

Originally published at: https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/09/09/chicago-s-growing-tech-incubator-scene

How do tech incubators work, and what’s the real story behind this growing scene in Chicago? Our panel of experts – from both universities and private incubators — weigh in.

The Chicago Council on Science & Technology is hosting an event on Sept. 10 called The Landscape of Techpark Innovation. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

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Press Release

The Landscape of Techpark Innovation

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Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) Presents: The Landscape of Techpark Innovation

CHICAGO, Illinois (August 20, 2013)– The world of innovation and ideas has changed and grown with our modern and complex landscape. The once romantic images of a lone innovator or inventor scribbling furiously in a notebook or casually sketching on a cocktail napkin are a thing of the past.

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Blog Post

Bugs in the Climate System

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By Scott Michael Slone

To those of you who use computers, you can understand the issues that can sometimes be caused by them. Faulty hardware, operating system issues, programs not working, drivers not installed properly, the list goes on and on. The average user has no end to the issues they could have, with many being very subtle and tricky to solve. A recent bug has been revealed in Climate modeling systems that will need to be handled if any model is going to have credibility, and there’s no tech support you can call when your model for a climate system doesn’t start. Continue reading “Bugs in the Climate System”

Event

The Physics of Baseball: “You Can Observe A Lot By Watching”

“You Can Observe A Lot By Watching” – Yogi Berra

Following Yogi’s advice, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois Alan Nathan will use high-speed video clips to highlight some of the interesting physics underlying the game of baseball.  The talk will focus on the subtleties of the baseball-bat collision, the intricacies of the flight of a baseball, and many other things. Continue reading “The Physics of Baseball: “You Can Observe A Lot By Watching””