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Editorial

Rediscovering the “Third Place”

April 28, 2022June 9, 2022 Chirag Shah commute, pandemic, Third Place, working from home

Rediscovering the “Third Place”

Chirag Shah, University of Washington

Do you have a favorite “third place” to hang out? A place that’s other than your home and work? Perhaps it’s

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Editorial

Finding Fairness with a Fickle Framing

March 12, 2022May 26, 2022 Chirag Shah Artificial Intelligence, Fairness, machine learning, Recommender systems

Finding Fairness with a Fickle Framing

Chirag Shah, University of Washington

In 2018, I spent several months at Spotify in New York City during my sabbatical from Rutgers University. There

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Editorial

In AI We Trust, But Should We?

January 28, 2022April 24, 2022 Chirag Shah Alexa, conversational agent, information access, Spotify, streaming, trust, user agency

In AI We Trust, But Should We?

Chirag Shah, University of Washington

When my older daughter was five, she once told me, “Dad, Alexa must be a scientist because she

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Editorial

Algorithmic Information Access is the New Smoking

December 27, 2021April 24, 2022 Chirag Shah algorithms, information access, smoking, tobacco

Algorithmic Information Access is the New Smoking

Chirag Shah, University of Washington

Smoking used to be cool. Yes, it’s still considered “cool” by some people, at some times, and at

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Editorial

Responsible AI: Whose responsibility is it?

November 21, 2021April 24, 2022 Chirag Shah Bias, Ethics, Fairness, Responsible AI, Transparency

Responsible AI: Whose Responsibility Is It?

Chirag Shah, University of Washington

In 2018, I spent several months at Spotify as a Visiting Researcher during my sabbatical from Rutgers University. Among

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Editorial

True Cost of Free Search

October 16, 2021March 28, 2022 Chirag Shah Conspiracy theory, Google, misinformation, Search engines, Social media

True Cost of Free Search

Chirag Shah, University of Washington

With all the attention that Facebook is getting recently, we often forget that the problem of biased algorithms is not

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Editorial

Misinformation—A Choice for the Rest of Us

September 16, 2021May 26, 2022 Chirag Shah 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

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Editorial

Rethinking about Information – semi-sesquicentennial later

August 7, 2021March 12, 2022 Chirag Shah 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

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