The winter issue of IIT Magazine, “Making Things Work: The IIT Innovators Fueling Big Ideas,” is now available online. Inside you can find stories exploring vertical farming by IIT students at The Plant Chicago, an ITM student’s work using IBM’s natural language processing (just like Watson) to carry out sentiment analysis on Twitter, a profile of IIT alumnus and trustee, Air Force fighter pilot and investment wizard John P. Calamos Sr., a look at how IIT researchers are studying protein sequences discovered in dinosaur fossils to help develop new medical techniques (maybe replacement body parts!), and much more.

Check out IIT Magazine’s Winter 2012 issue.