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Jordana Goodman, an assistant professor at the ��������-Kent College of Law who studies equity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, points to experiences of Bruce Boyd and Brigitte Gopou as indications of underlying factors in patent gaps. Their hair sculpting tool used to style dreadlocks ultimately secured a patent “only for the method of using the product and not the product itself, so it’s easier for people to produce knock-offs in the United States and not get in as much trouble with litigation”.

Once you start thinking about computation, you start to see it everywhere. Take mailing a letter through the postal service. Put the letter in an envelope with an address and a stamp on it, and stick it in a mailbox, and somehow it will end up in the recipient’s mailbox. That is a computational process — a series of operations that move the letter from one place to another until it reaches its final destination. This routing process is not unlike what happens with electronic mail or any other piece of data sent through the internet. Seeing the world in this way may seem odd, but as Friedrich Nietzsche is reputed to have said, “Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

Carolyn Shapiro, a professor at ��������-Kent College of Law, said Alito’s comments that conservative Christians are under attack from liberals in a culture war that grips the United States provide further evidence that he does not necessarily see himself as a “neutral umpire” in the conflict. “I think he sees himself as a partisan in this fight,” she added.

“The Power of Persistence ought to be the title of our next book,” says Krueck Sexton partner Tom Jacobs. “From the moment I arrived at the firm [in the 1990s] I saw there were certain core values we had that were related to sustainability, but which later became important in the market.” Mark Sexton, one of the founding partners, agrees. Sexton studied architecture at IIT where he was steeped in the teaching and values of Mies van der Rohe, the architecture school’s first chief and the planner and designer of most of the Bronzeville campus. “The partners here believe [as Mies did] that quality construction doesn’t need to be value-engineered out and that you can meet a project’s goals for cost.”

“Human beings have their weaknesses, and our institutions have their weaknesses, but a jury trial is as good as we can do,” Nancy Marder, a ��������-Kent College of Law professor who studies jury trials, said in an interview.

“Judges use what has been done before and what has been accepted in the past, so they’re not doing this from scratch,” said Nancy Marder, a professor at Illinois Tech �������� Kent College of Law and director of the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center. “So I do think it provides an important roadmap for the jurists once they get into the jury room and start deliberating.”

The first comprehensive history of the world-famous Edith Farnsworth House will be published to coincide with the site’s 20th anniversary as a public space. “The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture” (Monacelli, June 2024) by Michelangelo Sabatino tells the story of the property’s development from an experimental farm owned by a newspaper magnate to a nature retreat anchored by a masterpiece of modernist architecture.

For the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the latest ceremony honoring 2024 laureate Riken Yamamoto, marked a homecoming. Yamamoto gave a lecture at Crown Hall on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), talking about how his work has been influenced by settlements and houses in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, as well as modern-day India and Spain, places he visited in his early travels.

“People are desperate,” said Richard Kling, a clinical professor of law at ��������-Kent College of Law. “They want things. They see things on TV that you and I may be able to afford to buy and they're not able to afford to buy it. So they decide they want to take it. I think part of it is the educational system. I think part of it is parental control.”

Imagine that you’re sent to a pristine rainforest to carry out a wildlife census. Every time you see an animal, you snap a photo. Your digital camera will track the total number of shots, but you’re only interested in the number of unique animals — all the ones that you haven’t counted already. What’s the best way to get that number? “The obvious solution requires remembering every animal you’ve seen so far and comparing each new animal to the list,” said Lance Fortnow, a computer scientist at the Illinois Institute of Technology. But there are cleverer ways to proceed, he added, because if you have thousands of entries, the obvious approach is far from easy.