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Illinois Tech Study Done at Willis Tower Shows Potential for Significant Energy Shavings With Automatic Shades

Informed Infrastructure

“In addition to the exciting findings of energy savings and payback period, this project served as a perfect example of the type of industry-relevant research we enjoy—combining field measurements and computer simulations to evaluate a unique strategy to save energy in one of the most famous buildings in the world,” says Brent Stephens, a co-principal investigator on the project and the Arthur W. Hill Endowed Chair in Sustainability.

Associate Professor Alvin Lee Gives Food Safety Tips About Jellies and Jams

MarthaStewart.com

To protect the shelf-life and quality of your jams and jellies, it's best to store them in the refrigerator. The cold temperature will significantly slow down the growth of microorganisms, according to Alvin Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of food and nutrition at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Illinois Tech Will Lead Fight Against Transportation Hacking With $10 Million DOT Grant

Supply Chain Quarterly

“Spoofing vehicles can be very dangerous,” says Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris Pervan. “If you spoof one car, and that information gets passed on to others, it’s infecting the whole system. On the other hand, the information from the other vehicles could be of some use to tell you that you’re being spoofed, so right now we have no idea how that trade-off will play out.”

Partnership With Illinois Tech Featured at DMG MORI's Chicago Days Event

Modern Machine Shop

Representatives for DMG MORI and Illinois Institute of Technology, who are developing a national center for advanced manufacturing in Chicago, discussed shared goals of providing the workforce training to prepare the millions of new workers needed to help revive American semiconductor and advanced manufacturing sectors, as well as cultivating applied research and development in critical industrial sectors.

Illinois Tech’s CARNATIONS Program Named Tier 1 University Transportation Center

Mass Transit

Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS), led by Professor Boris Pervan, was named a new Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). As a Tier 1 UTC, CARNATIONS will receive a $10 million grant from USDOT for improving transportation navigation systems by making them more resilient to cyber attacks such as spoofing and jamming.

Chicago-Kent Professor: 'Incredibly Difficult' to Prove That Father Signing Highland Park Shooter's FOID Card Legally Caused Deaths

Chicago Sun-Times

“Causation is links in a chain, and that’s a very long chain,” says Doug Godfrey, professor of legal writing and research at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There’s also intervening causes, which can break the chain. I’m sure the defense can point to many other things or people that may have contributed.”

Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent Says Media Mogul Byron Allen's Suit Against McDonald's Will Be Hard to Win

Crain's Chicago Business

“At times, individuals or groups file lawsuits not with the aim of winning, but with the aim of getting leverage,” says Harold Krent, professor at Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law. “I think this is ultimately about pressing McDonald’s to do something about the prior suit as opposed to actually winning this one.”

Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz Discusses How Lawyers Can Take Advantage of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models

ABA Journal

“There’s been a material increase in the capabilities of these tools, of these large language models, particularly with GPT but just in general, and that does bear on the type of work that lawyers do,” says Daniel Martin Katz, a law professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent School of Law. “This is important for lawyers because we have technology that’s finally pretty good at language, and that has always been a challenge.”

History of Tech Scholar Mar Hicks Says Twitter's Purge of Old Accounts Could Lead to Chaos

WIRED

“Twitter has been relatively small, but it's had an outsized influence, because it's the place where journalists go,” says Mar Hicks, associate professor of the history of technology at Illinois Institute of Technology. “For it to descend into chaos, in multiple ways, is really dangerous.”

Academia Must Respond to AI Advances, Google Executive Says at Conference Hosted by Illinois Tech

Times Higher Education

At the Digital Universities U.S. conference held at Illinois Institute of Technology, internet pioneer Vinton Cerf has urged higher education leaders to modify not just their assessment methods but their overall teaching and research approaches as artificial intelligence advances. “Higher education has an obligation to explain what those problems are, how they arise, and what we can do to ameliorate the potential hazardous effects,” said Cerf, now the chief internet evangelist at Google.