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At the Digital Universities U.S. conference held at Illinois Institute of Technology, internet pioneer Vinton Cerf has urged higher education leaders to modify not just their assessment methods but their overall teaching and research approaches as artificial intelligence advances. “Higher education has an obligation to explain what those problems are, how they arise, and what we can do to ameliorate the potential hazardous effects,” said Cerf, now the chief internet evangelist at Google.

Digital Universities U.S., a conference held at ������ and co-hosted by Times Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed, had its share of technology enthusiasm in hallway discussions and on the agenda, but the event was far from a pep rally, with many speakers expressing worries about the rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence, bemoaning the tendency to embrace the latest “bright shiny object,” and cautioning against use of technology that isn’t directly in service of institutions’ core missions. At one session, Michael Gosz, ������'s vice president of data analytics, heralded a course recommendation system that has streamlined the advising process, but he acknowledged that the system worked well because the data that drive the recommendations were generated through deep conversations between advisers and students in the past—conversations that the mechanized system might reduce the need for. “What happens in the future? Does the system degrade over time?”

IIT College of Architecture Dean Reed Kroloff, critic Aaron Betsky, and local architect Eric Strain, FAIA, discuss the characteristics of Las Vegas architecture and Strain's work during a recent conversation at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Architecture.

“The court, I think, has battled back [against the Chevron doctrine] because it thinks that it’s not right for agencies to share with the court the power to interpret congressional language,” says Harold Krent, professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The court thinks it’s their own prerogative to interpret what Congress says, and therefore to share it with agencies by giving this leeway to reasonable agency interpretation of statutory language would be to limit their own power. So in some ways, Chevron is an ideological war that the court is waging in order to affirm its own superiority in terms of statutory interpretation.”

The Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design and UChicago Medicine are collaborating on a project to design a new way of delivering care. A two-year effort will focus on health care delivery on the South Side, bringing together the institute's Equitable Healthcare Lab with UChicago Medicine's Center for Healthcare Delivery Science & Innovation.

With the restoration of Carman Hall in August of 2022, Illinois Institute of Technology capped a three-year, $70 million effort to revive a trio of deteriorated, Mies van der Rohe–designed residential buildings. “There’s such a huge variety,” says architect Dirk Denison of the structures on the campus Mies planned in 1941. “And these three buildings are (among) the only tall buildings.” Two of them, Cunningham Hall and George J. Kacek Hall, shuttered more than a decade ago. Carman Hall remained open, but a third of its apartments were vacant, says Bruce Watts, the school’s vice president for administration.

Carly Kocurek, who teaches in the Game Design and Experiential Media program at ������, says suburbs operate in the realm of “perceived beigeness” making it hard to imagine them as settings for the kinds of stories and worlds we see most often in open world games.

The Copyright Office’s position that AI-generated content is excluded from copyright protection is wrong, writes Edward Lee, professor a Chicago-Kent College of Law and the author of “Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment.” It misunderstands authorship and ignores the copyright clause’s goal of promoting “progress” by offering authors incentives to create new works, including with new technologies.

“What we are trying to do is break the silos of the colleges and create what we call tech-enabled curriculum in every part of the (institution) … which will widen availability of students who choose to explore those futuristic careers,” says Mallik Sundharam, vice president for enrollment management and student affairs.

UChicago Medicine's Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation entered into a multiyear agreement with ������'s Institute of Design to use human-centered design to improve the patient experience and reduce inequities. ������'s Institute of Design's Equitable Healthcare Lab will provide UChicago Medicine with insights on how to implement new healthcare tools, provide training for employees and create more opportunities for more collaboration.