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Holiday shopping: Tips for using AI to compare prices and get gift inspiration

How can AI tools help consumers find the best deals and tackle the holiday shopping list? Associate Professor of marketing Purvi Shah spoke with NBC Boston about the technology driving retail transformation. "AI can help you compare products and prices across stores. It can also give you review summaries that can help you evaluate various product options based on those review summaries," Shah said. "All of this is done very efficiently."

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Beta Boston
BetaBoston, Dmitry Berenson, firefighting robots, WPI gets US Navy funding to program firefighting robots for ships, 2/9/2016

WPI robotics professor Dmitry Berenson highlights research on a firefighting robot that is undergoing tests aboard the USS Shadwell.

Chemistry & Industry
Chemistry and Industry, Marion Emmert, rare earths, Recycling rare earths, 2/1/2016

Professor Marion Emmert's two-step hydrometallurgy process for separating rare earths from the drive units of electric vehicles is featured.

Boston Globe
Boston Globe STAT, Gordon Prize, Worcester school gets national prize, 1/6/2016

The National Academy of Engineering named WPI the 2016 winner of the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for “The WPI Plan,” a revolutionary project-based approach to education.

Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics, Richard Quimby, photonics, The Skarp "Laser Razor" Is Going to Be Total Flaming Garbage, 10/14/2015

Physics professor Richard Quimby, head of WPI's IPG Photonics lab,  offers thoughts on the design and basic concept of a laser razor.