Wall Street Journal (Oct. 15) -- A desire to broaden his diet led ECE alumnus Ryan Rogowski, co-founder of Waygo, to start his company. After studying linguistics and computer vision at Illinois, Rogowski moved to Beijing to work for an app startup. “I could barely read any Chinese,” he said, “and I was so scared of getting sick, that I figured out the words for kung pao chicken.” After eating that dish nearly every day for a month, he decided to build an app that used a smartphone’s camera to recognize the thousands of characters in the Chinese logographic system.