“The arguments raised all had merit, they weren’t frivolous,” Chicago-Kent Professor Richard Kling said. He noted that Judge THomas Cunnington did not issue an injunction along with his ruling, meaning that the decision will not stop jurisdictions that are not among the plaintiffs in the suit from implementing the provisions of the SAFE-T Act.
"The court short-changed the legislature's longstanding interest in defining what is a crime, defining what is a sentence for a particular crime, and defining when bail should be allowed or not allowed," said Professor Harold Krent, Kent College of Law and separation of powers expert.
Harold Krent, a law professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law, called Judge Thomas Cunnington’s ruling on the separation of powers violations “highly contestable,” arguing that the state legislature also has an interest in making sure the court system is fair. The legislature has already weighed in on similar matters, such as limiting judges’ discretion in sentencing.
“There has never been a criminal action brought against a foreign state-owned enterprise in our history,” Chicago-Kent Professor Harold Krent said of a case before the Supreme Court involving a Turkish bank accused of laundering money for Iran. “And the 2nd Circuit held that there’s no law immunizing a state-owned bank for its commercial activities the way there would be to protect a state diplomat, and so the criminal charges could go forward. So this is really unprecedented and it’s a major change which will have ripple effects around the world.”
“The people who grew up playing these games are adults now—there’s a lot of nostalgia for them,” Illinois Tech professor Carly Kocurek said in an article about her research into the Games for Girls movement. “We’re starting to see that a lot of the folks that were designers and influential during the Games for Girls movement have become leaders. We have a radically different landscape for games now, so ‘Games for Girls’ sounds almost antiquated—because of course people are making games for many different audiences—but that wasn’t always the case.”
“We need to come up with an option that considers all those alternatives: natural gas, electricity, even hydrogen for heating homes,” said Mohammad Shahidehpour, professor and director of the Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Tech.
Chicago Kent College of Law clinical professor of law and defense attorney Richard Kling offered his analysis of the Chicago Police Department's decision to encrypt its radio transmissions.
The breathless reactions to ChatGPT remind Mar Hicks, a historian of technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, of the furor that greeted ELIZA, a pathbreaking 1960s chatbot that adopted the language of psychotherapy to generate plausible-sounding responses to users’ queries. ELIZA’s developer, Joseph Weizenbaum, was “aghast” that people were interacting with his little experiment as if it were a real psychotherapist. “People are always waiting for something to be dazzled by,” Hicks said.
Thanks to a partnership between DMG MORI and Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago will become a focal point for high-tech production technology as the pair announced plans to create a national center for advanced manufacturing in the city.
“If someone eats lunch at noon every day and the meal has usually 20 to 30 grams of carbohydrates, then if their current blood glucose level is not very low, at 11:45 we could say, ‘Everything indicates that the trend of this day is a typical weekday for this person, so let’s give them, not the whole dose of insulin, but a little bit of it so that it will blunt the meal effect on the glucose,’” said Ali Cinar, director of the Engineering Center for Diabetes Research and Education.
