HeyJaredThe AI4U Podcast
Your playbook for making AI real, practical, and valuable.Jie Tao, DSc, an associate professor of business analytics and the director of the AI and Technology Institute at Fairfield University’s Charles F.
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Seventy Percent of the Work Was the Spec - Ep. 15 (opens the original)
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Dr. Philip Maymin and Dr. Jie Tao close out a two-part conversation with Margarida Sacouto and Sheila Green, graduates of Fairfield Dolan's MS in Business Analytics and AI, who spent a semester consulting for Synchrony Financial. This time: what they built, and why it took so long to start. Sixty to seventy percent of the client work was spec-driven development, not code — a constitution, then a spec, then plans and tasks, in plain English, before anything ran. Green's group logged seven version
The Syllabus Broke, the Students Didn't - Ep. 14 (opens the original)
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Dr. Philip Maymin and Dr. Jie Tao — analytics professors at Fairfield Dolan, where Tao directs the AI and Tech Institute — host the first graduates of the MS in Business Analytics and AI to appear on the show: Margarida Sacouto and Sheila Green. Tao's course ran on one stubborn premise: you shouldn't have to change how you work because of AI. AI is here to help, not the other way around. Then Tao rewrote the course mid-semester — the first time in his career — because a real client materialized.
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