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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."

Watch the report from NBC Boston
PE Magazine
Still Wondering: Where Are the Women Engineers?

John McNeill, the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of the School of Engineering, and Oli Qirko, the North American president of Cambridge Consultants, Inc. and member of the advisory board for the School of Engineering, authored this op-ed regarding ways employers in STEM industries can foster inclusion and build the demand for women scientists and engineers. The piece also explores how project work, like WPI's educational model, serves as a successful example of best practices. The piece was published in PE Magazine, the flagship publication of the National Society of Professional Engineers.

 

Worcester Business Journal
WPI debuts nation’s first explosion protection engineering master’s program

The first of its kind program in the United States is designed amid growing concerns about fire and explosion risk posed by manufacturing facilities and advancing technologies like electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells.

 

Also featured in: The Worcester Guardian | International Fire Protection Magazine
Telegram.com
WPI to launch AI degree program this fall

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette interviewed Elke Rundensteiner, the William Smith Dean's Professor in Computer Science; Jean King, the Peterson Family Dean of Arts & Sciences, Carolina Ruiz, computer science professor and associate dean of Arts & Sciences, and John McNeill, the Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering, for an article highlighting the launch of the new master's degree in artificial intelligence.

Worcester Business Journal
WPI to offer degree in artificial intelligence

Worcester Business Journal reported on the rollout of WPI's new master's degree in artificial intelligence. The article highlights the program's strong emphasis on the ethical implications of AI as well as a multidisciplinary approach to the degree, including research. Several other media outlets including Yahoo! Finance published news about the new program.