Information Matters's Podcast: Recent Episodes
Information Matters
InfoFire is a series of fireside chat with prominent scholars, educators, and visionaries in the fields of information and computer science and technology. Each episode features one such distinguished figure who have made significant impact on the fields of science and technology. Each of them bring decades of personal experiences and reflections as well as their vision for where things are heading or should head. Listen to our podcasts to better understand the flavors and nuances behind every dimension of our information society.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Professor Borgman reflects on the evolving nature of research data, the pressing challenges of reuse, and the institutional infrastructures—or lack thereof—that shape the flow of knowledge in the digital age.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Christine L. Borgman
Distinguished Research Professor in Information Studies,
Presidential Chair in Information Studies, Emerita,
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Yaxin (Ashlyn) Luo
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
In this episode, Dr. Buckland challenges traditional notions by advocating for a shift from "information-as-thing" to "everything-as-document," urging a reevaluation of how we define and engage with information. Explore the evolution of iSchools and the future of information science through Buckland's insightful perspectives.
Read the full article here: Reframing Information: From “Information as Thing” to “Everything as Document” to the Identity of iSchools — Conversations with Michael Buckland
Guest Speaker: Dr. Michael Buckland
Professor Emeritus
The UC Berkeley School of Information
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita
International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, India
Editor & Producer: Yaxin (Ashlyn) Luo
Graduate Student,
Master of Communication in Digital Media,
University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Guest Speaker: Professor Mike Thelwal
Professor of Data Science
Information School
University of Sheffield
UK
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Yaxin (Ashlyn) Luo
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Guest Speaker: Dr. Gururaj Deshpande
Founder, President and Chairman, Sparta Group
Founder and Trustee, Deshpande Foundation
Founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks, 1998-2013
Life Member of the MIT Corporation & the Board of Trustees of MIT
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Yaxin (Ashlyn) Luo
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Guest Speaker: Jean-Claude Guédon, Ph.D
A leading champion of open access & Open Science
Professor of Comparative Literature (retired),
University of Montréal,
Canada
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Yaxin (Ashlyn) Luo
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Guest Speaker: Professor Javed Mostafa
Dean
Faculty of Information
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
InfoFire with Arjun Malhotra - Technology for Social Good: Making a Difference to Many
Guest Speaker: Mr. Arjun Malhotra
Chairman, Magic Software Inc.
Chairman & CEO Headstrong (1998 – 2011)
Co-Founder and Vice chairman HCL (1975 – 1998)
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Digital Product Designer
Guest Speaker:
Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy
Co-founder, Chairman Emeritus,
Infosys
CEO (1981 to 2002)
Chairman (2002 to 2011).
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Ardhra Sivasankaran, Content and Brand Specialist
Guest Speaker:
Professor Tony Hey, CBE, FREng, FACM, C.Eng
Honorary Senior Data Scientist
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory STFC/UKRI Harwell Campus, UK
Chief Data Scientist ( 2015-2022) STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
Former Director, UK eScience Initiative
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana, Digital Product Designer
Guest Speaker: Dr. Nicholas BelkinDistinguished Professor EmeritusSchool of Communication and InformationRutgers University, New BrunswickNew Jersey, USAHost: Dr. Shalini R. UrsExecutive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore IndiaEditor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,USA
Guest Speaker: Dr. Vinton (“Vint”) G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Co-designer of the TCP/IP Protocols & the architecture of the Internet and One of the fathers of the Internet
Founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle, USA
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Guest Speaker: Gautam I. Menon
Dean (Research) & Professor of Physics and Biology,
Ashoka University, India
Professor, Computational Biology, Theoretical Physics,
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Guest Speaker: Dr. Mark Maybury
Vice President, Commercialization, Lockheed Martin
Former Chief Technology Officer, Stanley Black & Decker
Former Chief Scientist, United States Air Force Former Executive Director,
MITRE Corporation
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle, USA
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Guest Speaker: Sid Mookerji
Founder and Managing Partner, Silicon Road Ventures, USA
Former Global CEO, and Founder. Software Paradigms
International Group, LLC
Co-founder, and CEO Silver Spirit Global LLC
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle, USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
Guest Speaker: Partha P. Majumder, PhD, FNA, FASc, FNASc, FTWAS
National Science Chair (Scientific Excellence), Government of India.
Distinguished Professor and Founder,
National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, WB, India
Emeritus Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research,
Mohali & Kolkata
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
Guest Speaker: Ajit Balakrishnan
Founder, Chairman, and CEO rediff.com
Chairman, Board of Governors IIM Calcutta (2006-2016)
Chairman Emeritus, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
Guest Speaker: Dr. Helen Sharp
Professor of Software Engineering and Associate Dean
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
School of Computing & Communications.
The Open University, UK
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,USA
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Guest Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Watters Former Chief Digital Research Officer, National Research Council Government of Canada & Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Computer Science, Former Provost & Vice President Academic, Damhousie University
Host: Dr. Shalini R. UrsExecutive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,USA
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Guest Speaker: Dr.Maëlle Salmon
Aficionada a R, R(esearch) Software Engineer & Blogger
Research Software Engineer, rOpenSci
Associate editor, rOpenSci’s Software Peer Review.
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
Episode 4: Evolution of computing infrastructure for research: Is AI the future of research? with Dr. Daniel E. Atkins
Guest: Dr. Daniel E. Atkinsmeritus W.K. Kellogg Professor of Information &
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
A Fireside Chat Podcast by Information Matters
Episode 4: Large Language Models: Their Power and their Limitations with Dr Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Guest: Dr Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Director of Research & Research Professor
Institute for Experimental AI
Northeastern University
Silicon Valley
California, USA
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
A Fireside Chat Podcast by Information Matters
Episode 4: Science Communication, Research Data, and Covid-19 with Gagandeep Kang FRS
Guest: Gagandeep Kang FRS
Professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College,
Vellore, India
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
A Fireside Chat Podcast by Information Matters
Episode 3: The changing landscape of Information Interaction: the past, present, and the future of the chat
Guest: Dr. Gary Marchionini
Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
Fireside Chat Podcast by Information Matters
Episode 2: Different Flavors of AI - A Fireside chat with Dr. Gio Wiederhold
Guest: Dr. Gio Wiederhold
Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Science, Medicine, and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/
A Fireside Chat Podcast by Information Matters
Episode 1: Changing Contours of the iField
A Fireside chat with Mike Eisenberg
Guest: Dr. Mike Eisenberg
Dean Emeritus, Information School, University of Washington Seattle, USA
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Emerita, International School of Information Management, University of Mysore India
Editor & Producer: Nara Vajaphattana
Graduate Student, Master of Communication in Digital Media, University of Washington Seattle,
USA
Information Matters: https://informationmatters.org/