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If professor Jonathan Tomkin’s class met in real life, a stadium would be needed to seat them all. And Assembly Hall wouldn’t cut it: Its 17,000 s e a t s More inside: would fit Turn to the only twoOpinions thirds of page to read more the 26,000 about the benefits s t u d e n t s and drawbacks of enrolled in different types of Tom k i n’s online learning “IntroPage 4A duction to Stability,” which is the fi rst University course offered on the online education platform Coursera. In July, the University became the fi rst land-grant institution to join the ranks of 18 other universities offer-
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Brian Balsamo, left, a graduate student in GSLIS, and Aaron Nachsin, a senior in LAS, the president of the Illini Juggling and Unicycling Club, wind down from the first day of class by practicing some new moves out on the Quad in their first meeting of the year. “I really like passing, which is the main thing that you can do with juggling that involves more than one person. I like the social aspect of it,” Nachsin said.
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Opinions divided over Apple v. Samsung Some say win for Apple will stifle innovation BY EMMA WEISSMANN STAFF WRITER
Nine jurors in a San Jose, Calif., courtroom ruled in favor of Apple Inc. on Friday in an intellectual property rights case against Samsung Electronics Co. The verdict came as a result of a long-lasting patent battle between Samsung and Apple over intellectual property rights. As a result of the trial, Samsung owes Apple $1.05 billion for copying various design and software elements from Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices and using them on
various Android products, such as Apple’s touch-screen technology. Apple fi led suit in April 2011. Michael Shaw, professor of business administration, lectures on mobile computing and mobile commerce with his students. He said he thinks last Friday’s jurors were “quite logical” and the verdict was “fair and justified.” “What this verdict said is you cannot just bypass other people and use other people’s ideas,” Shaw said. “And so, in a way, over the long term, you can say that it’s good for innovation because it forces companies to think about new product design and new user experience.” But others say that patents given out for basic components, like double-tap or fl ick functions, stand in the way of innovation. “If you start fi guring out who owns the patent on what, it’s vir-
tually impossible for you to start producing a new product without fearing that somebody’s going to sue you,” said Vishal Sachdev, visiting assistant professor of business. Sachdev said that, as a result of this trial, Samsung might come up with an even more creative product and “out-innovate” Apple to avoid future intellectual property battles. Will Tham , president of the University’s chapter of Industrial Designers Society of America and senior in FAA, started following the suit after learning about it in a society newsletter. “I kind of favored Samsung, and I kind of wanted them to win because Apple is trying to enforce really small detail,” Tham said. “Yeah, they do have the design patents, but by having these patents maintained for such a long time, it
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is slowing the process of innovation .... Now they should be rushing to innovate in another way instead of just holding that ground.” Tham said he thinks it is good for students to be aware of the case but “hopefully people will realize it’s stupid.” “Fighting over the radius of a corner for a billion dollars?” Tham said. “(It’s sad) to see that creative process stifled by money.” Shaw, on the other hand, said he thinks students will learn valuable lessons about respecting intellectual property rights as a result of this trial. “I think that, of course, we are all passionate about these products, and I know young people especially are,” Shaw said. “Another lesson for every one of us as a citizen in this democracy is that we need to
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Chancellor Phyllis Wise speaks to The Daily Illini Editorial Board in the Illini Media building on Thursday.
Wise committed to quality education
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How is it being back in Lincoln Hall after the renovation?
Past year’s turnovers signal a fresh start for the University
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Editor’s Note: On Thursday, the Daily Illini Editorial Board sat with Chancellor Phyllis Wise to discuss issues on campus. This is a portion of the transcript from that meeting. DI: What would you like to do differently this year in comparison to last year and what do you plan to keep the same? “Before the construction ... the communications graduate students were located in the basement of Lincoln Hall. We had offices in the basement. When people and students went down the stairs, they sort of saw the bare stone area, and then they would walk into our office that had an old couch and some rooms and desks, but the ceiling tiles were crumbling, and it was pretty dank; it felt like a basement. So, this is a big improvement to be now on the fourth floor in this beautiful, new refurbished facility.”
“Night and day, it’s really different. I have been a faculty member since 1999 and until we moved out for the renovation, my office was on the first floor of Lincoln Hall. Now, we are upstairs, our departments are on the third and fourth floor, so it’s a lot quieter and better for the students.” CARA FINNEGAN, associate professor in communications
“We were in a temporary building for three years while it was under construction; it was really difficult because we were on north campus. It was far enough north that we had very little undergrad population that would come up unless they absolutely had to have advising, so that was difficult. The grad students’ space was also not the best for them professionally. So it’s really nice being back in the building; we’ve got all the grad students housed in some great spaces and all our faculty are here. ”
ELIZABETH CARLSON, graduate student in communications
“Everything is better. For instance, I really like being able to open and shut windows in various places if I need to. In the old Lincoln hall, at the very end, we couldn’t even open and shut windows no matter what the weather; they would get stuck. In my office, I used an old sweatshirt stuffed into the gap between the bottom of the window and the cell in order to keep the cold air out. So it’s really just a great facility.”
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to be able to recruit a new provost, which was announced probably More inside: Turn after you left for summer to Opinions to break: Dean (Ilesanmi) read about the Adesida .... We also hired Editorial Board’s thoughts a new vice chancellor on Wise’s comments, for research, who just Page 4A. arrived from Penn State. So I have basically a new team to work with. ... So now that I have a new team, it’s a matter of getting us all onto one page and really going forward. I feel that this year ... is a very distinctive year in the past ten-year his-
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