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Title: Interview with Andrew Breyer: 1_DSC_1758-2
Creator: De La Cerda, Edgar, Debose, Deion, Jiao, Larry, Rigg, Scott, Sutula, Oksana
Date: 2015-10, 2015-10
Description: In the early days of home video game systems, Atari hosted tournaments where the best players competed to be the world champion for different...
Show moreIn the early days of home video game systems, Atari hosted tournaments where the best players competed to be the world champion for different games on its systems. One such player, Andrew “Andy” Breyer, competed in the world championship for Asteroids on the Atari 2600 in 1981. Breyer went on to win the world championship in the competition in Washington D.C. With such a great feat, he would serve as a monumental person in the history of Coin-Op in Chicago. Breyer’s interest in gaming began with Pong, one of the very first arcade games produced and developed by Atari in 1972. He enjoyed playing games that allowed for twitch reaction and skill. Games, such as Phoenix, Space Invaders, and Galaga, all caught his attention. Gaming grew into a passion for Breyer, which worked well for his competitive nature. He usually attended an arcade located in the mall about one and a half miles away from his home. This allowed for easy access to the arcade for long hours without much interruption. Soon after the release of the Atari 2600, Breyer obtained the popular gaming consoles and indulged in many of the first games. One such game being the infamous Asteroids. Soon after the release of Asteroids, Atari hosted a world competition for the game. Breyer attended the regional competition for his area. The game was played on several Atari 2600s available at the competition center. Participants stood in long lines to wait for a chance to attempt to get the high score. Each participant had several chances to get the highest score before time ran out. In the regional competition, Breyer faced many fierce competitors. Breyer sought to obtain at least an Asteroids t-shirt which was rewarded for a certain score. He tried several times before reaching the highest score in the competition which he obtained by a very small margin. This success rewarded Breyer not only with a Asteroids Deluxe, but also a chance to fly to Washington D.C. to compete in the world championship. After winning the regional competition, Breyer practiced Asteroids as often as possible before making the flight to D.C. After arriving, Breyer even opted out of free lunch to practice for the final competition. Participants in this competition received two chances to place a high score. The scores would be added together to determine the world champion. Breyer led the first round with the highest points. The other participants did not come close to his score. The second round was more troubling, as he lost many of his ships very early on and used his final ship to place a decently high score. With the completion of this competition, Breyer was named world champion. The competition did not mark the end of Breyers fame. About a year later, Breyer would be asked to participate in a commercial to popularize some Atari products and be reasonably compensated for his work. Today, Breyer is an IT manager, participates in a band, and delves into arcade games now and then. He is very much into the old arcade games and not interested in the newer video game industry. His experience as a world champion and competing in arcade game competitions makes him a valuable member in the history of Coin-Op. The insights he provides are very interesting and give a unique view on the industry. Learn more about Andrew “Andy” Breyer and his world championship experience in the provided interview.
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Title: Interview with Andrew Breyer
Creator: De La Cerda, Edgar, Debose, Deion, Jiao, Larry, Rigg, Scott, Sutula, Oksana
Date: 2015-10, 2015-10
Description: In the early days of home video game systems, Atari hosted tournaments where the best players competed to be the world champion for different...
Show moreIn the early days of home video game systems, Atari hosted tournaments where the best players competed to be the world champion for different games on its systems. One such player, Andrew “Andy” Breyer, competed in the world championship for Asteroids on the Atari 2600 in 1981. Breyer went on to win the world championship in the competition in Washington D.C. With such a great feat, he would serve as a monumental person in the history of Coin-Op in Chicago. Breyer’s interest in gaming began with Pong, one of the very first arcade games produced and developed by Atari in 1972. He enjoyed playing games that allowed for twitch reaction and skill. Games, such as Phoenix, Space Invaders, and Galaga, all caught his attention. Gaming grew into a passion for Breyer, which worked well for his competitive nature. He usually attended an arcade located in the mall about one and a half miles away from his home. This allowed for easy access to the arcade for long hours without much interruption. Soon after the release of the Atari 2600, Breyer obtained the popular gaming consoles and indulged in many of the first games. One such game being the infamous Asteroids. Soon after the release of Asteroids, Atari hosted a world competition for the game. Breyer attended the regional competition for his area. The game was played on several Atari 2600s available at the competition center. Participants stood in long lines to wait for a chance to attempt to get the high score. Each participant had several chances to get the highest score before time ran out. In the regional competition, Breyer faced many fierce competitors. Breyer sought to obtain at least an Asteroids t-shirt which was rewarded for a certain score. He tried several times before reaching the highest score in the competition which he obtained by a very small margin. This success rewarded Breyer not only with a Asteroids Deluxe, but also a chance to fly to Washington D.C. to compete in the world championship. After winning the regional competition, Breyer practiced Asteroids as often as possible before making the flight to D.C. After arriving, Breyer even opted out of free lunch to practice for the final competition. Participants in this competition received two chances to place a high score. The scores would be added together to determine the world champion. Breyer led the first round with the highest points. The other participants did not come close to his score. The second round was more troubling, as he lost many of his ships very early on and used his final ship to place a decently high score. With the completion of this competition, Breyer was named world champion. The competition did not mark the end of Breyers fame. About a year later, Breyer would be asked to participate in a commercial to popularize some Atari products and be reasonably compensated for his work. Today, Breyer is an IT manager, participates in a band, and delves into arcade games now and then. He is very much into the old arcade games and not interested in the newer video game industry. His experience as a world champion and competing in arcade game competitions makes him a valuable member in the history of Coin-Op. The insights he provides are very interesting and give a unique view on the industry. Learn more about Andrew “Andy” Breyer and his world championship experience in the provided interview.
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Title: Saja Speaks Podcast Series: The Abrahamic Religions
Creator: Hamayel, Saja
Date: 2017-05, 2017-05
Description: Saja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic...
Show moreSaja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic religions come with the same core message: God is One? Researching the question has led me in so many different directions and has taught me so much. I hope you'll enjoy my spiritual and eventful journey as well!
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Title: Saja Speaks Podcast Series
Creator: Hamayel, Saja
Date: 2017-05, 2017-05
Description: Saja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic...
Show moreSaja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic religions come with the same core message: God is One? Researching the question has led me in so many different directions and has taught me so much. I hope you'll enjoy my spiritual and eventful journey as well!
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Title: Saja Speaks Podcast Series: ep3
Creator: Hamayel, Saja
Date: 2017-05, 2017-05
Description: Saja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic...
Show moreSaja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic religions come with the same core message: God is One? Researching the question has led me in so many different directions and has taught me so much. I hope you'll enjoy my spiritual and eventful journey as well!
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Title: Saja Speaks Podcast Series: ep5
Creator: Hamayel, Saja
Date: 2017-05, 2017-05
Description: Saja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic...
Show moreSaja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic religions come with the same core message: God is One? Researching the question has led me in so many different directions and has taught me so much. I hope you'll enjoy my spiritual and eventful journey as well!
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Title: Saja Speaks Podcast Series: ep2
Creator: Hamayel, Saja
Date: 2017-05, 2017-05
Description: Saja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic...
Show moreSaja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic religions come with the same core message: God is One? Researching the question has led me in so many different directions and has taught me so much. I hope you'll enjoy my spiritual and eventful journey as well!
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Title: Saja Speaks Podcast Series: Ep1
Creator: Hamayel, Saja
Date: 2017-05, 2017-05
Description: Saja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic...
Show moreSaja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic religions come with the same core message: God is One? Researching the question has led me in so many different directions and has taught me so much. I hope you'll enjoy my spiritual and eventful journey as well!
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Title: Saja Speaks Podcast Series: ep4
Creator: Hamayel, Saja
Date: 2017-05, 2017-05
Description: Saja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic...
Show moreSaja Speaks is a short 5-episode podcast series depicting my journey through trying to answer a single question: Did all three Abrahamic religions come with the same core message: God is One? Researching the question has led me in so many different directions and has taught me so much. I hope you'll enjoy my spiritual and eventful journey as well!
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Title: An Exercise in Critical Prototyping
Creator: Deanda, Michael
Date: 2019-03-01, 2019-04-06
Description: Sponsorship: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions HASTAC Scholars Fellowship Program The Coleman Foundation
A worksheet for...
Show moreSponsorship: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions HASTAC Scholars Fellowship Program The Coleman Foundation
A worksheet for critical design. While the document focuses on "consent" as the design value, you may modify this for any other value.
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Title: Sofanda Booz: sofanda-booz-oral-history-interview (1)
Creator: Deanda, Michael
Date: 2018-02-23, 2018-02-23
Description: In this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community...
Show moreIn this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community for Bingo players to join in on a Tuesday night. Highlighted here is how Bingo provides an accessible way for designers with little to no game design training are able to develop meaning play experiences. Furthermore, she elaborates on how Bingo extends her own performance of gender and sexuality to the players, inviting them to also perform and play with gender and sexuality. While Drag Bingo highlights an accessible method of structuring play, successful drag queen Bingo hosts must cultivate a liminal low- stakes space for participants to play with performances of gender and sexuality.
Oral history project with Sofanda Booz
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Title: Descriptors and measurements of verbal violence in tweets: toxicity README
Creator: Guberman, Joshua, Hemphill, Libby
Date: 2016, 2016
Description: Sponsorship: National Science Foundation Award # 1525662
The purpose of this data collection was to test a scale for detecting verbal violence...
Show moreSponsorship: National Science Foundation Award # 1525662
The purpose of this data collection was to test a scale for detecting verbal violence in Tweets. Workers at Mechanical Turk were first asked to complete a qualification test and then invited to code additional Tweets according to our scale. The qualification test involved a detailed explanation of each item of the scale, a walkthrough of a tweet that we had coded according to all 14 scale-items, a practice exercise, and a test. In the practice exercise, potential coders attempted to code a tweet on their own using our scale. After submitting their ratings, they were shown our own ratings for the same tweet and explanations for each of our ratings. The test component consisted of another coding task, in which coders were asked to code another tweet that we had already coded ourselves. The workers who, on test, with our ratings of that tweet on at least 11 out of the 14 items “passed” the test, earning the qualification that allowed them to participate in future coding tasks. Variables in the data include the ID of the Tweet (so that you may find it on Twitter; Twitter Terms of Service prohibit us from sharing the Tweets), the ID number we assigned to the coder, the rating that coder provided for each of the 14 items on our scale, the gender and age of the coder, and any comments the coder provided. APA (6th Edition) CITATION: Guberman, J. and Hemphill, L. (2016) Descriptors and measurements of verbal violence in tweets [data file and codebook]. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3179368.
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Title: Descriptors and measurements of verbal violence in tweets
Creator: Guberman, Joshua, Hemphill, Libby
Date: 2016, 2016
Description: Sponsorship: National Science Foundation Award # 1525662
The purpose of this data collection was to test a scale for detecting verbal violence...
Show moreSponsorship: National Science Foundation Award # 1525662
The purpose of this data collection was to test a scale for detecting verbal violence in Tweets. Workers at Mechanical Turk were first asked to complete a qualification test and then invited to code additional Tweets according to our scale. The qualification test involved a detailed explanation of each item of the scale, a walkthrough of a tweet that we had coded according to all 14 scale-items, a practice exercise, and a test. In the practice exercise, potential coders attempted to code a tweet on their own using our scale. After submitting their ratings, they were shown our own ratings for the same tweet and explanations for each of our ratings. The test component consisted of another coding task, in which coders were asked to code another tweet that we had already coded ourselves. The workers who, on test, with our ratings of that tweet on at least 11 out of the 14 items “passed” the test, earning the qualification that allowed them to participate in future coding tasks. Variables in the data include the ID of the Tweet (so that you may find it on Twitter; Twitter Terms of Service prohibit us from sharing the Tweets), the ID number we assigned to the coder, the rating that coder provided for each of the 14 items on our scale, the gender and age of the coder, and any comments the coder provided. APA (6th Edition) CITATION: Guberman, J. and Hemphill, L. (2016) Descriptors and measurements of verbal violence in tweets [data file and codebook]. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3179368.
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Title: Sofanda Booz: 1002
Creator: Deanda, Michael
Date: 2018-02-23, 2018-02-23
Description: In this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community...
Show moreIn this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community for Bingo players to join in on a Tuesday night. Highlighted here is how Bingo provides an accessible way for designers with little to no game design training are able to develop meaning play experiences. Furthermore, she elaborates on how Bingo extends her own performance of gender and sexuality to the players, inviting them to also perform and play with gender and sexuality. While Drag Bingo highlights an accessible method of structuring play, successful drag queen Bingo hosts must cultivate a liminal low- stakes space for participants to play with performances of gender and sexuality.
Oral history project with Sofanda Booz
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Title: Sofanda Booz
Creator: Deanda, Michael
Date: 2018-02-23, 2018-02-23
Description: In this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community...
Show moreIn this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community for Bingo players to join in on a Tuesday night. Highlighted here is how Bingo provides an accessible way for designers with little to no game design training are able to develop meaning play experiences. Furthermore, she elaborates on how Bingo extends her own performance of gender and sexuality to the players, inviting them to also perform and play with gender and sexuality. While Drag Bingo highlights an accessible method of structuring play, successful drag queen Bingo hosts must cultivate a liminal low- stakes space for participants to play with performances of gender and sexuality.
Oral history project with Sofanda Booz
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Title: Sofanda Booz: 20180227_201404
Creator: Deanda, Michael
Date: 2018-02-23, 2018-02-23
Description: In this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community...
Show moreIn this interview, Sofanda relays her experience doing drag and developing her Bingo set, focusing on how she creates a welcoming community for Bingo players to join in on a Tuesday night. Highlighted here is how Bingo provides an accessible way for designers with little to no game design training are able to develop meaning play experiences. Furthermore, she elaborates on how Bingo extends her own performance of gender and sexuality to the players, inviting them to also perform and play with gender and sexuality. While Drag Bingo highlights an accessible method of structuring play, successful drag queen Bingo hosts must cultivate a liminal low- stakes space for participants to play with performances of gender and sexuality.
Oral history project with Sofanda Booz
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Title: Descriptors and measurements of verbal violence in tweets: toxicity_first_steps
Creator: Guberman, Joshua, Hemphill, Libby
Date: 2016, 2016
Description: Sponsorship: National Science Foundation Award # 1525662
The purpose of this data collection was to test a scale for detecting verbal violence...
Show moreSponsorship: National Science Foundation Award # 1525662
The purpose of this data collection was to test a scale for detecting verbal violence in Tweets. Workers at Mechanical Turk were first asked to complete a qualification test and then invited to code additional Tweets according to our scale. The qualification test involved a detailed explanation of each item of the scale, a walkthrough of a tweet that we had coded according to all 14 scale-items, a practice exercise, and a test. In the practice exercise, potential coders attempted to code a tweet on their own using our scale. After submitting their ratings, they were shown our own ratings for the same tweet and explanations for each of our ratings. The test component consisted of another coding task, in which coders were asked to code another tweet that we had already coded ourselves. The workers who, on test, with our ratings of that tweet on at least 11 out of the 14 items “passed” the test, earning the qualification that allowed them to participate in future coding tasks. Variables in the data include the ID of the Tweet (so that you may find it on Twitter; Twitter Terms of Service prohibit us from sharing the Tweets), the ID number we assigned to the coder, the rating that coder provided for each of the 14 items on our scale, the gender and age of the coder, and any comments the coder provided. APA (6th Edition) CITATION: Guberman, J. and Hemphill, L. (2016) Descriptors and measurements of verbal violence in tweets [data file and codebook]. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.3179368.
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Title: Lee de Forest receiving honorary doctorate from Lewis Institute, 1937
Date: 1937
Description: Lee De Forest, a pioneer of wireless communication, served as a faculty member at Lewis Institute during the turn of the twentieth century....
Show moreLee De Forest, a pioneer of wireless communication, served as a faculty member at Lewis Institute during the turn of the twentieth century. During that time he conducted his first long-distance broadcasts from the roof of Main Building at the Armour Institute of Technology. De Forest also invented of the Audion three-element vacuum tube and patented a method of recording sound on film that the movie industry would later adopt. Photographer uknown.
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Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

Title: Roman dinner, 1905
Date: 1905
Description: Photograph of male students dressed in costume for a Roman-themed dinner. Photographer unknown.
Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

Title: Lewis Institute entrance, 1943
Date: 1943
Description: The entrance of the Lewis Institute at 1951 W Madison Avenue displaying the Illinois Institute of Technology name after Lewis and Armour...
Show moreThe entrance of the Lewis Institute at 1951 W Madison Avenue displaying the Illinois Institute of Technology name after Lewis and Armour Institute of Technology merged to create Illinois Tech in 1940.
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Collection: Lewis Institute records, 1827-1984

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