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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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WBUR 90.9
WPI Concert Band performs world premiere composition

WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, aired a story about the spring performance of the WPI Concert Band and Brass Ensemble. The Concert Band performed a world premiere composition it commissioned, inspired by the legacy of Major Taylor, a groundbreaking African American cycling world champion who called Worcester home.

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5 things to do this weekend, including a tribute to Major Taylor

To celebrate one of cycling’s greatest athletes: Worcester’s own Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor, the WPI Concert Band will perform “The Ride,” a new original composition by local educator Thomas O’Toole. 

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
WPI welcomes 19 full-time educators and researchers to its faculty for the 2020-21 academic year

More than 70 media outlets, including the Latin Trade , Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Oklahoman carried the news of WPI welcoming 19 full-time educators and researchers to its faculty for the 2020-21 academic year.