LLMs Are Better Than People at Creating Convincing Misinformation, Illinois Tech Researchers’ Paper Shows

The Register

Computer scientists have found that misinformation generated by large language models (LLMs) is more difficult to detect than artisanal false claims hand-crafted by humans. Researchers Canyu Chen, a doctoral student at Illinois Institute of Technology, and Kai Shu, assistant professor in its Department of Computer Science, set out to examine whether LLM-generated misinformation can cause more harm than the human-generated variety of infospam.

Cybersecurity Expert Maurice Dawson Breaks Down Lurie Children’s Cyber Attack

ABC7 Chicago

“The thing about the traditional method of warfare — guns and people — you don’t do that anymore,” said Illinois Tech Assistant Professor Maurice Dawson. “You just have a keyboard and a keyboard and you can launch an attack from anywhere.”

IIllinois Tech Campus Ranked One of Best in State

University Magazine

Illinois Institute of Technology is known for its modern and innovative campus design. The campus showcases stunning architecture, including the iconic S.R. Crown Hall, designed by renowned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Illinois Tech offers specialized engineering, business, and architecture programs, attracting students from around the globe.

Carnegie and Me: Professor Emeritus Eldon Ham Refutes the Culture War on American Libraries

ABA Journal

Libraries are “uber-local,” a pulse of the community. They are a curator of resources, not some evil distributor of propaganda. Their books are carefully chosen for their worth, content, diverse viewpoints and community interests, not to indoctrinate or manipulate. Those books should be celebrated, debated or criticized but not banned.

Professor Philip Troyk’s Implant to Help With Sight Showing Promise in Just Two Years

WGN-TV

“We’re trying to make an artificial interface, a cybernetic interface to the brain and nobody really knows the language to talk to the brain,” said Dr. Philip Troyk, executive director of Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering.

NIT-Trichy Alumnus Announces Academic Grants for Students in Partnership With Illinois Tech

The Hindu

Ram S. Ramanujam, alumnus of National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi (NIT-T), has announced an academic grants program worth over ₹2.5 crore (about $300,000) in collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technology over the next 10 years to NIT-T students for supporting their academic research and graduate studies. A minimum of five annual grants will be given over the next 10 years. Additionally, two scholarships are designated for deserving female students who are the first in their families to pursue college degrees at NIT-T.

Professor Harold Krent Discusses Supreme Court Weighing Overturning Chevron Doctrine

Bloomberg Law

“The (conservative) justices are opposed (to Chevron) I think for two different reasons, and the first is, in all other contexts, judges make the final call as to what Congress meant in passing statutes. ... So under Chevron, the courts have to share this special function with agencies who they view as unelected bureaucrats or politicians,” said Harold Krent, constitutional law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “... The other reason is that this particular court is very skeptical of administrative agencies and administrative agencies’ power. They love presidential power, but they don’t like the power of the bureaucrats beneath him.”

Students at Illinois Tech and Beyond Value Experiential Learning, Career Preparedness

Inside Higher Ed

Alison Yurchak will graduate from her five-year, dual-degree program at Illinois Institute of Technology this spring with a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering and a master’s in chemical engineering. She already has a postgraduation job lined up at Procter & Gamble as a baby-care engineer, which she thinks will be a good fit for her personality, interests and skill set. Why the confidence? Yurchak says that she heeded the advice her parents gave her going into college directly from high school—to “take every internship you can and try everything.”

Chicago-Kent Professor Carolyn Shapiro Breaks Down Supreme Court’s Suddenly Blockbuster Term

Christian Science Monitor

With the Supreme Court set to hear cases with mammoth implications for both the 2024 election and abortion access, the term “has taken on tremendous weight that was not evident at the start,” says Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States. “On the other hand, it’s not entirely unpredictable we find ourselves in this situation,” she adds.

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