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Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Kling, a professor at Chicago鈥揔ent 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鈥檚 sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania鈥檚 highest court on similar arguments. 鈥淚 think that鈥檚 (Smollett鈥檚) strongest argument and best chance,鈥 Kling said.

Endless Thread

鈥淭he 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,鈥 said Professor Carly Kocurek, who teaches in 91制片厂 Tech's Game Design and Experiential Media program.

SHRM

The key question to watch in the next year is whether the UAW鈥檚 deals with the automakers and the聽Teamsters鈥 agreement with UPS聽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. 鈥淯nder its prior leadership, the UAW failed miserably in organizing the nonunionized auto sector,鈥 he said. 鈥淲e鈥檒l see if (UAW President) Shawn Fain and his team can do better.鈥

Inside Higher Ed

To make hands-on learning more accessible and unified across the institution, 91制片厂 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 91制片厂 Tech to track outcomes, with a majority of students landing a job within six months of graduation.

The Times of India

The National Institute of Technology (NIT-Trichy) and 91制片厂 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.

The Hindu

The National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi (NIT-T) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the 91制片厂 Institute of Technology (91制片厂 Tech) that enables both institutions to offer a degree programme in Data Science and AI commencing in Fall 2024.

Los Angeles Times

Last month President Biden issued an executive order on artificial intelligence, the government鈥檚 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鈥檚 propensity to release products before they鈥檝e been fully tested 鈥 to 鈥渕ove fast and break things.鈥 But despite the order鈥檚 scope 鈥 it鈥檚 111 pages and covers a range of issues including industry standards and civil rights 鈥 two glaring omissions may undermine its promise.

Christian Science Monitor

The general language in the code 鈥渄oes suggest [the justices] consider this [as] aspirational, as opposed to binding,鈥 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. 鈥淭here鈥檚 an extraordinary amount of discretion involved in applying these standards,鈥 she adds. But 鈥淚鈥檓 not sure it would be possible to write standards that don鈥檛 have that as an element.鈥

Fox Business

Esports have exploded at 91制片厂 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.

Financial Times

When Daniel Katz, a law professor at 91制片厂 Tech鈥檚 Chicago-Kent College of Law, set out to challenge the abilities of Microsoft-backed OpenAI鈥檚 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? 鈥淚f I picked a very narrow area of law, people wouldn鈥檛 get their head around it,鈥 he says. In March, it emerged that the AI model passed the test, scoring in the 90th percentile.