InfoFire - A Fireside Chat by 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.
- Update frequency
- every 51 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Fireside chat with Christine Borgman - It Takes a Village: Collaboration, Curation, and the Commons of Science
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 sha…
From Information as Thing to Information as Ideology — Exploring the Evolution of Knowledge, Libraries, and Society
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 …
Fireside Chat with Professor Mike Thelwall - Large Language Models, Research Evaluation and SciMetrics
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 Ma…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Gururaj Deshpande - Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Social Change
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 Corp…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Jean-Claude Guédon - Whither Open Access?
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 D…
Fireside chat with Javed Mostafa - Trends in Health Informatics
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,…
Fireside Chat with Mr. Arjun Malhotra - Technology for Social Good: Making a Difference to Many
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 a…
Fireside Chat with Shri N. R. Narayana Murthy | AI and India
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 Info…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Tony Hey | AI and Science
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 T…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Nicholas Belkin - Whither Information Science?
Guest Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Belkin
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
School of Communication and Information
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
New Jersey, USA
Host: Dr. Shalini R. Urs
Executive Director Eme…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Vinton (“Vint”) G. Cerf - AI, the Future of Everything?
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 Inte…
Fireside Chat with Gautam I. Menon - Doing Interdisciplinary Science
Guest Speaker: Gautam I. Menon
Dean (Research) & Professor of Physics and Biology,
Ashoka University, India
Professor, Computational Biology, Theoretical Physics,
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ch…
Fireside Chat with Mark Maybury - Commercializing AI
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 Execut…
Fireside Chat with Sid Mookerji - Venture Capital in the US and India: Synergistic Investing
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 L…
Fireside Chat with Partha P. Majumder - Deciphering the genetic heritage of the people of India
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 Biomedica…
Fireside Chat with Ajit Balakrishnan - The Changing Information Industry Landscape: Through an Internet Entrepreneur's lens
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: …
Fireside Chat with Dr. Helen Sharp - Building Socio-technical resilience in Software Development : Experiences from The Motivating Jenny Project
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
…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Carolyn Watters - Towards responsibility AI: Leveraging multi-partner engagement
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 Presi…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Maëlle Salmon - Is R the right toolset for eScience/open Science?
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
Exe…
Fireside Chat with Dr. Daniel E. Atkins - Evolution of computing infrastructure for research: Is AI the future of research?
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 &
Profess…