āWe can all draw the lines differently,ā Āé¶¹APP-Kent Professor Harold Krent said, ābut I think ... the Kankakee court didnāt notice that this was a reasonable effort under the Illinois constitution to try to accommodate the interests of the public in being safe, with having a fair and equitable criminal justice system that didnāt automatically make freedom pending trial contingent upon someoneās wealth.ā
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āThe arguments raised all had merit, they werenāt frivolous,ā Āé¶¹APP-Kent Professor Richard Kling said. He noted that Judge THomas Cunnington did not issue an injunction along with his ruling, meaning that the decision will not stop jurisdictions that are not among the plaintiffs in the suit from implementing the provisions of the SAFE-T Act.
"The court short-changed the legislature's longstanding interest in defining what is a crime, defining what is a sentence for a particular crime, and defining when bail should be allowed or not allowed," said Professor Harold Krent, Kent College of Law and separation of powers expert.
Harold Krent, a law professor at the Illinois Institute of Technologyās Āé¶¹APP-Kent College of Law, called Judge Thomas Cunningtonās ruling on the separation of powers violations āhighly contestable,ā arguing that the state legislature also has an interest in making sure the court system is fair. The legislature has already weighed in on similar matters, such as limiting judgesā discretion in sentencing.
āThere has never been a criminal action brought against a foreign state-owned enterprise in our history,ā Āé¶¹APP-Kent Professor Harold Krent said of a case before the Supreme Court involving a Turkish bank accused of laundering money for Iran. āAnd the 2nd Circuit held that thereās no law immunizing a state-owned bank for its commercial activities the way there would be to protect a state diplomat, and so the criminal charges could go forward. So this is really unprecedented and itās a major change which will have ripple effects around the world.ā
āThe people who grew up playing these games are adults nowāthereās a lot of nostalgia for them,ā Illinois Tech professor Carly Kocurek said in an article about her research into the Games for Girls movement. āWeāre starting to see that a lot of the folks that were designers and influential during the Games for Girls movement have become leaders. We have a radically different landscape for games now, so āGames for Girlsā sounds almost antiquatedābecause of course people are making games for many different audiencesābut that wasnāt always the case.ā
āWe need to come up with an option that considers all those alternatives: natural gas, electricity, even hydrogen for heating homes,ā said Mohammad Shahidehpour, professor and director of the Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Tech.
Āé¶¹APP Kent College of Law clinical professor of law and defense attorney Richard Kling offered his analysis of the Āé¶¹APP Police Department's decision to encrypt its radio transmissions.
The breathless reactions to ChatGPT remind Mar Hicks, a historian of technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, of the furor that greeted ELIZA, a pathbreaking 1960s chatbot that adopted the language of psychotherapy to generate plausible-sounding responses to usersā queries. ELIZAās developer, Joseph Weizenbaum, was āaghastā that people were interacting with his little experiment as if it were a real psychotherapist. āPeople are always waiting for something to be dazzled by,ā Hicks said.
Thanks to a partnership between DMG MORI and Illinois Institute of Technology, Āé¶¹APP will become a focal point for high-tech production technology as the pair announced plans to create a national center for advanced manufacturing in the city.