Editorial Featured Rediscovering the “Third Place” April 28, 2022May 4, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments commute, pandemic, Third Place, working from home Rediscovering the “Third Place”Chirag Shah, University of WashingtonDo you have a favorite “third place” to hang out? A place that’s other than your home and work? Perhaps it’s Read more Read more
Editorial Featured Finding Fairness with a Fickle Framing March 12, 2022April 22, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments Artificial Intelligence, Fairness, machine learning, Recommender systems Finding Fairness with a Fickle FramingChirag Shah, University of WashingtonIn 2018, I spent several months at Spotify in New York City during my sabbatical from Rutgers University. There Read more Read more
Editorial In AI We Trust, But Should We? January 28, 2022April 24, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments Alexa, conversational agent, information access, Spotify, streaming, trust, user agency In AI We Trust, But Should We?Chirag Shah, University of WashingtonWhen my older daughter was five, she once told me, “Dad, Alexa must be a scientist because she Read more Read more
Editorial Algorithmic Information Access is the New Smoking December 27, 2021April 24, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments algorithms, information access, smoking, tobacco Algorithmic Information Access is the New SmokingChirag Shah, University of WashingtonSmoking used to be cool. Yes, it’s still considered “cool” by some people, at some times, and at Read more Read more
Editorial Responsible AI: Whose responsibility is it? November 21, 2021April 24, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments Bias, Ethics, Fairness, Responsible AI, Transparency Responsible AI: Whose Responsibility Is It?Chirag Shah, University of WashingtonIn 2018, I spent several months at Spotify as a Visiting Researcher during my sabbatical from Rutgers University. Among Read more Read more
Editorial True Cost of Free Search October 16, 2021March 28, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments Conspiracy theory, Google, misinformation, Search engines, Social media True Cost of Free SearchChirag Shah, University of WashingtonWith all the attention that Facebook is getting recently, we often forget that the problem of biased algorithms is not Read more Read more
Editorial Featured Misinformation—A Choice for the Rest of Us September 16, 2021March 12, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments Arjuna, disinformation, Krishna, Mahabharata, misinformation Misinformation—A Choice for the Rest of Us Chirag Shah If you have kept even one eye (or ear) on the news coming out in the last couple of years, chances Read more Read more
Editorial Rethinking about Information – semi-sesquicentennial later August 7, 2021March 12, 2022 Chirag Shah 0 Comments editorial, history, information Rethinking about Information—Semi-sesquicentennial Later Chirag Shah The 1940s was a very interesting era. Sure, it was the time of the war, but it was also the time of recovery and Read more Read more