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Chicago-Kent Law Professor Richard Kling Says Smollett’s Argument That He Had Deal With Prosecutors May Help on Appeal

Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Kling, a professor at Chicago–Kent College of Law, said the question of whether a second round of charges against actor Jussie Smollett violated his agreement with Cook County prosecutors may be interesting enough for the state Supreme Court to consider, noting that actor Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania’s highest court on similar arguments. “I think that’s (Smollett’s) strongest argument and best chance,” Kling said.

Game Design Professor Carly Kocurek Analyzes Viral NPC Trend

Endless Thread

“The Sims ready pose, right? Where the Sim is just kind of standing there doing this weird wavy dance, waiting to do things? How many of us feel like we spend huge chunks of our life weirdly waiting for things to happen? Where it's like, I'm waiting for a call. I'm waiting for the doctor's office. I'm waiting for the traffic light. I'm waiting for the mail. Almost like you're in this liminality all the time in day-to-day life because we don't have as much control over our own time as most of us would like. And yeah, it feels like you're in a weird little micro-limbo between activities,” said Professor Carly Kocurek, who teaches in Illinois Tech's Game Design and Experiential Media program.

Keep an Eye on Whether Labor Movement Can Build on UAW’s, Teamsters’ Deals Next Year, Says Chicago-Kent Professor Emeritus Martin Malin

SHRM

The key question to watch in the next year is whether the UAW’s deals with the automakers and the Teamsters’ agreement with UPS can be converted into organizing victories, said Martin Malin, founding director of Chicago-Kent College of Law's Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace in Chicago. “Under its prior leadership, the UAW failed miserably in organizing the nonunionized auto sector,” he said. “We’ll see if (UAW President) Shawn Fain and his team can do better.”

Scaling Up: How Illinois Tech’s Unique Elevate Program Connects Students With Experiential Learning Offerings

Inside Higher Ed

To make hands-on learning more accessible and unified across the institution, Illinois Tech created Elevate, which provides one central location for all experiential learning offered at the university and for support resources to students. Elevate makes it easier for students to be aware of available opportunities and for Illinois Tech to track outcomes, with a majority of students landing a job within six months of graduation.

NIT-Trichy, Illinois Institute of Technology Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Joint Degree Program

The Times of India

The National Institute of Technology (NIT-Trichy) and Illinois Institute of Technology, USA have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to offer a joint degree programme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI), which comes under the New Education Policy. The collaboration sets a new standard in global education, focusing on student exchange, joint research, and an innovative engineering-focused joint degree in Data Science and AI uniquely tailored for lifelong learners commencing in Fall 2024.

NIT Trichy, Illinois Tech to Offer Joint Degree in Data Science, AI

The Hindu

The National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi (NIT-T) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) that enables both institutions to offer a degree programme in Data Science and AI commencing in Fall 2024.

Law Professor Nancy Kim: Biden’s Executive Order on AI Is Ambitious — and Incomplete

Los Angeles Times

Last month President Biden issued an executive order on artificial intelligence, the government’s most ambitious attempt yet to set ground rules for this technology. The order focuses on establishing best practices and standards for AI models, seeking to constrain Silicon Valley’s propensity to release products before they’ve been fully tested — to “move fast and break things.” But despite the order’s scope — it’s 111 pages and covers a range of issues including industry standards and civil rights — two glaring omissions may undermine its promise.

Chicago-Kent Law Professor Carolyn Shapiro Explains the Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code

Christian Science Monitor

The general language in the code “does suggest [the justices] consider this [as] aspirational, as opposed to binding,” says Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at the University of Chicago-Kent College of Law. “There’s an extraordinary amount of discretion involved in applying these standards,” she adds. But “I’m not sure it would be possible to write standards that don’t have that as an element.”

Competitive Video Gaming, Esports Boom at Illinois Tech, Universities Across America

Fox Business

Esports have exploded at Illinois Tech, prompting plans to expand the program's facility. April Welch, director of esports, said a majority of the program's players are majoring in computer science or business, and their video game experience applies to a wide range of jobs. "There are content creators, coaches, psychologists, all the jobs that you would think about," Welch said.

A Champion of Generative AI Innovation, Chicago-Kent’s Daniel Martin Katz Stands Out for Guiding Legal Teams on How to Use the Latest Tools

Financial Times

When Daniel Katz, a law professor at Illinois Tech’s Chicago-Kent College of Law, set out to challenge the abilities of Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s GPT-4, he knew his team had to choose a task that would capture the attention of lawyers. What could be better than the bar exam? “If I picked a very narrow area of law, people wouldn’t get their head around it,” he says. In March, it emerged that the AI model passed the test, scoring in the 90th percentile.