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Title: Financialization in the Structured Products Market
Creator: Zhu, Lizi
Date: 2023
Description: This dissertation aims to study financialization in the structured products market. The structured products market has been undergoing a major...
Show moreThis dissertation aims to study financialization in the structured products market. The structured products market has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years. The market used to mainly serve institutional investors. However, as a few trading platforms powered by fintech companies emerged on the horizon, more and more banks are starting to compete in this market. The average trade size has also been declining significantly, thereby making the market increasingly accessible to retail investors. What are the factors that facilitate the development of this market? What are the economic incentives of issuers and investors? How do issuers compete? What does the future hold for this market? The main finding of this dissertation is that structured products provide utility to retail investors; As the level of risk aversion increases, an investor increasingly prefers structured products to other traditional asset classes; issuers develop three sources of competitive advantage to be a satisficer; the rise of fintech and improvement of financial education are the key to opening this market to retail investors.
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Title: Pilgrim Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1964
Date: 1952-1964
Description: Pilgrim Baptist Church (3301 S. Indiana Ave, Chicago, IL) photographed from the northwest by Institute of Design student F. Peter Weil. Date...
Show morePilgrim Baptist Church (3301 S. Indiana Ave, Chicago, IL) photographed from the northwest by Institute of Design student F. Peter Weil. Date is estimated as 1964 from other evidence in the collection.
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Collection: F. Peter Weil photographs, 1952-1964

Title: Multimodal Learning and Generation Toward a Multisensory and Creative AI System
Creator: Zhu, Ye
Date: 2023
Description: We are perceiving and communicating with the world in a multisensory manner, where different information sources are sophisticatedly processed...
Show moreWe are perceiving and communicating with the world in a multisensory manner, where different information sources are sophisticatedly processed and interpreted by separate parts of the human brain to constitute a complex, yet harmonious and unified intelligent system. To endow the machines with true intelligence, multimodal machine learning that incorporates data from various modalities including vision, audio, and text, has become an increasingly popular research area with emerging technical advances in recent years. Under the context of multimodal learning, the creativity to generate and synthesize novel and meaningful data is a critical criterion to assess machine intelligence.As a step towards a multisensory and creative AI system, we study the problem of multimodal generation in this thesis by exploring the field from multiple perspectives. Firstly, we analyze different data modalities in a comprehensive manner by comparing the data natures, the semantics, and their corresponding mainstream technical designs. We then propose to investigate three multimodal generation application scenarios, namely text generation from visual data, audio generation from visual data, and visual generation from textual data, with diverse approaches to give an overview of the field. For the direction of text generation from visual data, we study a novel multimodal task in which the model is expected to summarize a given video with textual descriptions, under a challenging condition where the video can only be partially seen. We propose to supplement the missing visual information via a dialogue interaction and introduce QA-Cooperative network with a dynamic dialogue history update learning mechanism to tackle the challenge. For the direction of audio generation from visual data, we present a new multimodal task that aims to generate music for a given silent dance video clip. Unlike most existing conditional music generation works that generate specific types of mono-instrumental sounds using symbolic audio representations (e.g., MIDI), and that heavily rely on pre-defined musical synthesizers, we generate dance music in complex styles (e.g., pop, breaking, etc.) by employing a Vector-Quantized (VQ) audio representation via our proposed Dance2Music-GAN (D2M-GAN) framework. For the direction of visual generation from textual data, we tackle a key desideratum in conditional synthesis, which is to achieve high correspondence between the conditioning input and generated output using the state-of-the-art generative model -- Diffusion Probabilistic Model. While most existing methods learn such relationships implicitly, by incorporating the prior into the variational lower bound in model training. In this work, we take a different route by explicitly enhancing input-output connections by maximizing their mutual information, which is achieved by our proposed Conditional Discrete Contrastive Diffusion (CDCD) framework. For each direction, we conduct extensive experiments on multiple multimodal datasets and demonstrate that all of our proposed frameworks are able to effectively and substantially improve task performance in their corresponding contexts.
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Title: Interiors 1 [belly of tube intersecting ceiling]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the intersection of the Exelon tube with the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the intersection of the Exelon tube with the ceiling of the interior of the building. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 6 [with El tracks]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing State Street Village (now Jeanne and John Rowe...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing State Street Village (now Jeanne and John Rowe Village) in the foreground, the Exelon tube and the Chicago skyline in the background. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Founders' Wall 2 [icons]
Date: 2003
Description: Photographic detail of the Founders' Wall at McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph shows the...
Show morePhotographic detail of the Founders' Wall at McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph shows the pictographic icon system designed for the building by graphic design firm 2x4. On the Founders' Wall, the icons are used to create portraits of Frank Gunsaulus, Allen Lewis, Robert Pritzker, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Founders' Wall 3 - [faces of (l-r): Frank Gunsaulus, Allen Lewis, Robert Pritzker, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the Founders' Wall at McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph shows the pictographic...
Show morePhotograph of the Founders' Wall at McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph shows the pictographic icon system designed for the building by graphic design firm 2x4. On the Founders' Wall, the icons are used to create portraits of Frank Gunsaulus, Allen Lewis, Robert Pritzker, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Rem Mies [Commons seen from inside MTCC]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the Commons Building visible through the windows of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center. The MTCC was connected to Mies van der...
Show morePhotograph of the Commons Building visible through the windows of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center. The MTCC was connected to Mies van der Rohe's Commons Building to provide an interior passageway between the buildings. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Hallway [northeast corridor]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the northeast corridor of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts the use...
Show morePhotograph of the northeast corridor of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts the use of conventional glass and orange Panelite, a translucent, honeycomb-patterned, composite paneling material. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Interiors 2 [integrated ramp/staircase]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing integrated ramp and staircase leading from the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing integrated ramp and staircase leading from the main level to the food court area below. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Interiors 3 [food court looking east]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing cafeteria/food court on the building's lower...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing cafeteria/food court on the building's lower level. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Computer Hall
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the recessed central corridor that initially...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the recessed central corridor that initially housed the building's "broadband cafe." Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Mies Door 1
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the exterior of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts a portrait of...
Show morePhotograph of the exterior of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts a portrait of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created using the pictographic icon system designed for the building by graphic design firm 2x4. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 2 - Chicago skyline in background
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube and the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube and the Chicago skyline in the background. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 5 [El train speeding through tube]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube. The...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 7 [El tracks' supporting structure]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the Exelon tube and the Green Line tracks from...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the Exelon tube and the Green Line tracks from below. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 8 [close-up through tube]
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a the Green Line tracks running through the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a the Green Line tracks running through the Exelon tube. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Students using a firehose in "The Bog," Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960
Date: 1960
Description: Photographs of students using a firehose in "The Bog," otherwise known as Ogden Field, which was located on the north side of 33rd Street...
Show morePhotographs of students using a firehose in "The Bog," otherwise known as Ogden Field, which was located on the north side of 33rd Street between Dearborn Street and Federal Street (where Hermann Hall and the flagpole now stand). The photo is looking south, with Siegel Hall in the left background and the Mechanical Engineering Research Building II in the right background. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Desktop Analog Hybrid computing system in a lab, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1971-1975
Date: 1971-1975
Description: Photograph of an EAI (Electronic Associates, Inc.) Desktop Analog Hybrid computing system in a classroom lab. The computer was issued ca....
Show morePhotograph of an EAI (Electronic Associates, Inc.) Desktop Analog Hybrid computing system in a classroom lab. The computer was issued ca. 1967. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Students studying in the Chicago-Kent building at 10 North Franklin St., Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. ca. 1971-1975
Date: 1971-1975
Description: Students studying in the Chicago-Kent building at 10 North Franklin St., Chicago, Illinois, which was the school's home from 1924 to 1976....
Show moreStudents studying in the Chicago-Kent building at 10 North Franklin St., Chicago, Illinois, which was the school's home from 1924 to 1976. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

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