Doug was a regular writer for the website of the University of Illinois Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), one of the premier information technology labs in the country. For instance, CSL won an Emmy as the lab that invented the plasma television. It also was home of PLATO, the world’s first computer-aided educational system. Today, it is a leader in many areas, including wireless communications, robotics, information security, medical imaging, air transportation systems, speech and face recognition systems, and parallel computing.