Showing posts with label fairness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fairness. Show all posts
Friday, December 1, 2023

Fairness in algorithms: Hans Sigrist Prize to Aaron Roth

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  The University of Bern's Hans Sigrist Prize has been awarded to Penn computer scientist Aaron Roth , and will be celebrated today. He...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Waitlist equity, when not everyone can wait a long time, by Afshin Nikzad and Philipp Strack

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 Patients waiting for deceased donor kidneys are given priority in part by how long they have been on dialysis, while patients waiting for l...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Covid medication: allocation, information, hesitancy, and uptake: what are some things we have learned?

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 I've posted before about how informational advertising  about vaccine availability and safety seems to have had a positive effect on va...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

What is needed to gain support for effective algorithms in hiring, etc?

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 Here's an experiment motivated in part by European regulations on transparency of algorithms. Aversion to Hiring Algorithms: Transparen...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Fair algorithms for selecting citizen assemblies, in Nature

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  Here's a paper that grapples with the problem that not every group in society is equally likely to accept an appointment for which the...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

A lottery for antibody treatment, with slots reserved for vulnerable patients

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  It's always good to see a collaboration between physicians and economists on allocating scarce resources, and here's a case report...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Redistribution through markets, in Econometrica, by Dworczak, Kominers, and Akbarpour

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  Market designs involving taxes, or rationing, in  the latest Econometrica, Vol. 89, No. 4 (July, 2021), 1665–1698: REDISTRIBUTION THROUGH ...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Vaccine supply and delivery in Germany: I'm interviewed in Zeit

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 Here's an interview in the German newspaper Zeit, in which I was asked in early February about the vaccine rollout here and there. (Goo...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Anger at vaccine line jumping

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 There is some tension between getting populations vaccinated quickly and ensuring that priorities for who gets vaccinated first are careful...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Vaccine delivery in the U.S. continues to be congested

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As of today, congestion is still competing with short supply to limit vaccination in the US. Some doses are being wasted or delayed in the n...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Vaccine supply chain woes

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Supply chains are boring, until things are in short supply. And there are many steps in a supply chain that can cause supplies to be short. ...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Course allocation with minimum quotas, by Bichler, Hammerl, Waldherr, and Morrill

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Here's a course allocation problem:, "Our specific task was to assign students to classes in the computer science and information ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Market design and algorithmic criminal justice--by Jung, Kannan, Lee, Pai, Roth and Vohra

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When fairness isn't your only goal, your other goals may help you choose among competing definitions of fairness. Fair Prediction wit...
Monday, December 23, 2019

"The Ethical Algorithm" by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth (book talk at Google)

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Here's a talk about " The Ethical Algorithm--The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design " by Michael Kearns and Aaron Ro...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Automatic algorithmic affirmative action, by Ashesh Rambachan and Jonathan Roth

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There's been some justified concern that algorithms that make predictions and choices based on previous choices made by humans might re...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Ethical algoritms: a recent talk and a forthcoming book

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Increasingly, algorithms are decision makers. Here's a recent talk, and a book forthcoming in October, about what we might mean by eth...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Impossibility Results in Fairness (from Adventures in Computation)

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Here are excerpts from a post at Adventures in Computation that will be of interest to market designers: Impossibility Results in Fairn...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Understanding and misunderstanding algorithmic bias

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Adventures in Computation explains a recent political discussion: Algorithmic Unfairness Without Any Bias Baked In "Discussion of ...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

The FATE of technology at Penn, today

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F airness, A ccountability, T ransparency and E thics are topics on which economics and computer science intersect each other , and some ot...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Kidney exchange and computation

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Here's an article on how computation--broadly characterized as artificial intelligence--has changed kidney transplantation. It gives so...