4 papers
On-Premises Multi-Course RAG Tutoring for Business Education: Hardware-Software Trade-offs in a Campus AI Tutor
Sidney Shapiro, Joshua Lindemann
Campus AI tutors based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) must ground answers in assigned course materials while keeping textbooks and student dialogue on institutional infras…
Graph-Based Agentic AI with LangGraph: Workflow Pathways for Long-Running Stateful Business Processes
Daniel Pearson, Sidney Shapiro, Emiliano Sebastian Gonzalez Venegas +2
This paper is a practitioner guide to graph-based workflow pathways for long-running, stateful, multi-step generative AI systems in business processes. Rather than treating LangGra…
From Patent Expiry to Business Pathways: AI Workflows for Activating Innovation Archives
Sidney Shapiro, Mark Price
Patent databases represent one of the largest public archives of technical knowledge, yet much of this knowledge remains difficult to identify, interpret, and reuse once patent rig…
Pandas for Reproducible Data Analysis: From Spreadsheets to Research-Grade Python Workflows
Sidney Shapiro, Daniel Pearson, Emiliano Sebastian Gonzalez Venegas
Spreadsheet-heavy analytical work remains common in business analytics, operations reporting, and applied research, yet workbooks that grow through formulas, manual edits, and copy…