Cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said “a slow and bumpy recovery process” is “entirely normal.” As engineers roll out fixes across the cloud computing infrastructure, the process could trigger smaller disruptions, he said. “It’s similar to what happens after a large-scale power outage: While a city’s power is coming back online, neighborhoods may see intermittent glitches as crews finish the repairs,” said Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
The Wall Street Journal
October 29, 2025
Marriage among the children of high earners and those who become high earners serves to consolidate wealth, and further widens the income gap, said Melissa Kearney, a family economist at the University of Notre Dame.
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BBC News
October 29, 2025
Mary Ellen O'Connell, an international law expert at Notre Dame University and former military educator with the defence department, said the "criminal suspects are entitled to due process. It is a greater crime to summarily execute people suspected of drug trafficking than drug trafficking is," she added.
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The Conversation
October 28, 2025
Jason Reed, Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame
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October 27, 2025
"This demographic issue is poised to potentially remake so much of our society," said Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Notre Dame.
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October 27, 2025
Notre Dame professor Richard Sheehan speculates about the possibilities of what led to Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones to allegedly participate in illegal gambling schemes.
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The New York Times
October 24, 2025
Whereas LSU was a clear No. 1 in our staff list, the highest proportion of readers — who were asked to submit up to 10 favorites, in any order — chose Notre Dame Stadium, which just barely edged the Big House at Michigan and Death Valley at LSU.
ABC News
October 24, 2025
"鈥嬧�婼hutdowns involve extremely little money because most federal spending is on autopilot," Jeffrey Campbell, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, told ABC News.
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October 24, 2025
Richard Sheehan, professor emeritus, University of Notre Dame
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Newsweek
October 23, 2025
Richard Sheehan, professor emeritus of finance at the University of Notre Dame and author of Keeping Score: The Economics of Big-Time Sports, says the recent NBA betting scandal may not significantly damage public trust in regulated sports markets. Sheehan argues that while leagues have long histories of cracking down on misconduct—citing Pete Rose as a prime example—sportsbooks are newer and less visible, making reputational recovery more complex.
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The Conversation
October 23, 2025
By Marya Lieberman, the Nancy Dee Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame.
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NBC News
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October 21, 2025
Michael Chapple, University of Notre Dame I.T., Analytics & Operations Professor
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USA Today
October 21, 2025
Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement to USA TODAY that the incident is a reminder of the world's dependency on a handful of cloud service providers, including AWS. "When a major cloud provider sneezes, the Internet catches a cold," Chapple said.
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BBC News
October 21, 2025
A new series of "cascading failures" may have arisen after the initial outage, according to Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at Notre Dame University. "It's like when you have a large-scale power outage. Crews start working to try to bring it back on line," Mr Chapple said. "The power might flicker a few times," he explained, but it's possible Amazon had initially "only addressed the symptoms" and not the cause.
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October 21, 2025
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October 21, 2025
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CNBC
October 20, 2025
Indeed, “DynamoDB isn’t a term that most consumers know,” Mike Chapple, IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and former computer scientist with the National Security Agency, said in a statement. However, it “is one of the record-keepers of the modern Internet.” “We’ll learn more in the hours and days ahead but early reports indicate that this wasn’t actually a problem with the database itself. The data appears to be safe. Instead, something went wrong with the records that tell other systems where to find their data,” he added.
CNN
October 20, 2025
“Amazon had the data safely stored, but nobody else could find it for several hours, leaving apps temporarily separated from their data,” said Mike Chapple at University of Notre Dame. “It’s as if large portions of the internet suffered temporary amnesia.”
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Newsweek
October 20, 2025
Mike Chapple, a cybersecurity expert at the University of Notre Dame, described the disruption as “temporary amnesia” for the internet, noting that while data remained intact, systems couldn’t locate it.
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The Wall Street Journal
October 20, 2025
Amazon’s DynamoDB is one of the record-keepers of the modern internet, said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame and former computer scientist with the National Security Agency. Chapple said the outage is a reminder of the world’s reliance on major cloud providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. “When a major cloud provider sneezes, the Internet catches a cold,” he said.
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BBC News
October 20, 2025
While it seemed the worst had been resolved, a new series of “cascading failures” seems to have arisen during the last few hours, according to Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at Notre Dame University. “It’s like when you have a large-scale power outage,” Chapple said. “Crews start working to try to bring it back on line. The power might flicker a few times,” but it’s possible “they’d only addressed the symptoms” and not the root cause.
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