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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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Ancient African Remedy Shows Promise Against Tuberculosis in New Study

A team of WPI researchers co-authored a study that suggests a compound in a plant, African wormwood, may be effective against tuberculosis.

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Telegram & Gazette, Scarlet Shell, WPI Professor Receives $1.1 Million Grant for Bacteria Study, 2017-01-12

Scarlet Shell, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology, has received a $1.1 million CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for a five-year program to study the molecular mechanisms bacteria use to survive stressful conditions of starvation and lack of oxygen.