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Dan Kiermaier waters the pitcher’s mound at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Fields of Green

Meet the sports turf managers who maintain America’s ballparks You’ve heard of the seventh inning stretch? Joey Stevenson is a big fan of the fourth inning nap. The head groundskeeper for the Indianapolis Indians keeps a pillow under his desk. Following the third inning drag, he checks the radar, and if skies are clear, he […]

Jim Parker

Robot Arm Stacks Up

Machine vision’s new niche — sorting baseball cards By day, Jim Parker (ECE’90) designs and engineers tiny machine vision cameras embedded in surgical and lab equipment. At night, he uses the same technology in his side business sorting baseball cards. Yes, baseball cards. Parker works for Syracuse, New York-based JADAK, a top supplier of data […]