“We need a clear answer to the question of Trump’s eligibility as soon as possible,” said Carolyn Shapiro, the founder of Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute of the Supreme Court of the United States. “The significant risks of chaos and even violence will only escalate without that certainty.”
Illinois Tech’s efforts to restore one of its oldest buildings and one of its most acclaimed designs will get a boost from the city’s Adopt-A-Landmark program. The campus’s Main Building, 3300 S. Federal St., and Crown Hall, 3360 S. State St., will be awarded $500,000 and $250,000, respectively, to help with restoration efforts.
“This is the problem with any form of self-policing, is that people will only police to the edge of where it starts really affecting profit,” said Jennifer deWinter, dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters. “So if we actually want social media to have a meaningful role in this sort of self-policing, it needs to come from the government first.”
“I think (the Supreme Court) can issue an opinion (on whether Trump can stay on the ballot) very quickly. They did that in Bush v. Gore in 2000 in a matter of days. And they certainly want to do that,” said Professor Carolyn Shapiro of the Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There are ways the court could punt, and I think that would be a big mistake. They need to resolve the underlying question now so that everybody knows whether or not Trump is elegible to be president again.”
“Access to education is such a critical aspect of today’s economy, and particularly in technology fields, the ability for people to gain a technology degree is a way to uplift themselves economically, socially, and the like in their careers,” said Illinois Tech Provost Kenneth Christensen. “Today, many people are full-time employed looking for the opportunity to pivot or grow in their careers, and online learning allows students to learn where they are and when they can learn.”
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
“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.
