What's Happening Blog

Welcome to the Oliverian Blog. Here you can find a variety of posts from faculty, administrators, students, and guests on all things Oli. Please enjoy!
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Navigating AI’s Nuances: Insights from Oliverian’s Applied Engineering Course

In Kate Lewis’ Applied Engineering course, students embarked on a journey into the intricate workings of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Through immersive exploration, they unraveled the mechanisms underpinning AI’s functionality—how it’s trained on vast troves of internet language to discern patterns and generate responses. Yet, alongside this technical understanding emerged a critical awareness: AI inherits biases from its training data, prompting students to scrutinize and challenge these biases in AI-generated content.

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Alumni Spotlight – Max Barksdale, Class of 2011

As a dual citizen of The United States and Germany, Max lived an adventurous childhood, spending up to half a year at a time in Germany, and the rest living all across the East Coast of the US, even living at sea with his father for a time. Although this offered quite the cultural education, he always felt he could improve and develop his social skills. After years of being homeschooled, Max advocated to attend school in person, and found himself in a very traditional New England boarding school. Max was an excellent student, but found himself struggling with his identity, his social skills, and how he fit into his milieu. Determined to find his right place, Max and his family toured Oliverian, and the rest is history.

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New Look, Same Oli!

As we celebrate Oli’s 20th Anniversary (more fun details to come), we are excited to share with you our refresh of the Oliverian brand. Our goal is always to remain true to our values, our mission, and our culture. We are confident this new look captures the essence of Oliverian as we head into our next twenty years!

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