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To protect the shelf-life and quality of your jams and jellies, it's best to store them in the refrigerator. The cold temperature will significantly slow down the growth of microorganisms, according to Alvin Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of food and nutrition at Illinois Institute of Technology.

“Spoofing vehicles can be very dangerous,” says Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Boris Pervan. “If you spoof one car, and that information gets passed on to others, it’s infecting the whole system. On the other hand, the information from the other vehicles could be of some use to tell you that you’re being spoofed, so right now we have no idea how that trade-off will play out.”

Representatives for DMG MORI and Illinois Institute of Technology, who are developing a national center for advanced manufacturing in �鶹APP, discussed shared goals of providing the workforce training to prepare the millions of new workers needed to help revive American semiconductor and advanced manufacturing sectors, as well as cultivating applied research and development in critical industrial sectors.

Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Assured and Resilient Navigation in Advanced Transportation Systems (CARNATIONS), led by Professor Boris Pervan, was named a new Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). As a Tier 1 UTC, CARNATIONS will receive a $10 million grant from USDOT for improving transportation navigation systems by making them more resilient to cyber attacks such as spoofing and jamming.

“Causation is links in a chain, and that’s a very long chain,” says Doug Godfrey, professor of legal writing and research at �鶹APP-Kent College of Law. “There’s also intervening causes, which can break the chain. I’m sure the defense can point to many other things or people that may have contributed.”

“At times, individuals or groups file lawsuits not with the aim of winning, but with the aim of getting leverage,” says Harold Krent, professor at Illinois Institute of Technology's �鶹APP-Kent College of Law. “I think this is ultimately about pressing McDonald’s to do something about the prior suit as opposed to actually winning this one.”

“There’s been a material increase in the capabilities of these tools, of these large language models, particularly with GPT but just in general, and that does bear on the type of work that lawyers do,” says Daniel Martin Katz, a law professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s �鶹APP-Kent School of Law. “This is important for lawyers because we have technology that’s finally pretty good at language, and that has always been a challenge.”

“Twitter has been relatively small, but it's had an outsized influence, because it's the place where journalists go,” says Mar Hicks, associate professor of the history of technology at Illinois Institute of Technology. “For it to descend into chaos, in multiple ways, is really dangerous.”

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 Illinois Tech 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, Illinois Tech'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?”