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“It’s definitely interesting to see this series moving toward having a woman protagonist,” said Professor Carly Kocurek, a historian of video games and new media technologies. “There’s been controversy, in particular there’s been a lot of representation of sex workers that isn’t particularly thoughtful or particularly nuanced. There’s fewer women leads in these kinds of story in general, and so it’s interesting. We’ll see what they do.”

“So we’re seeing this kind of, like, really banner year for releases and for attention from the media and critical acclaim,” said Carly Kocurek, a professor of digital humanities and media studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology. “At the same time, we’re seeing people who are the people that made those games kind of get thrown out on their tails over and over again.”

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.

“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 ������'s Game Design and Experiential Media program.

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.”

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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.

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

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.

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.”