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Anne L Washington

Anne L Washington

Rothermere/Harmsworth Duke Associate Professor of Technology Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
anne.washington@duke.edu
201 Science Drive, 235 Sanford Building, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Towards defining the public interest in technology: lessons from history

Journal article Journal of Integrated Global STEM · November 1, 2024 The public interest suggests a singular approach to a social good, but lessons from history illustrate the nuances of sharing open space, transportation networks, and policy mandates. Serving the public exists across a spectrum of possibilities. In this es ... Full text Link to item Cite

Archived attributes: An internet-text approach to measuring legislator attitudes and behavior

Journal article British Journal of Political Science · October 9, 2021 The Internet Archive curated a 90-terabyte sub-collection of captures from the US government's public website domain ('.gov'). Such archives provide largely untapped resources for measuring attributes, behaviors and outcomes relevant to political science r ... Full text Cite

Uncertain risk: assessing open data signals

Journal article Transforming Government People Process and Policy · November 23, 2020 Purpose: Open data resources contain few signals for assessing their suitability for data analytics. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the uncertainty experienced by open data consumers with a framework based on economic theory. Design/methodolo ... Full text Cite

Proceedings Abstract

Journal article Aies 2020 Proceedings of the Aaai ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society · February 7, 2020 As AI (and associated AI-hype) grows more pervasive in our lives, its impact on society is ever more significant, raising ethical concerns and challenges regarding issues such as privacy, safety and security, surveillance, inequality, data handling and bia ... Cite

How to Argue with an Algorithm: Lessons from the COMPAS ProPublica Debate

Journal article The Colorado Technology Law Journal · October 1, 2017 The United States optimizes the efficiency of its growing criminal justice system with algorithms however, legal scholars have overlooked how to frame courtroom debates about algorithmic predictions. In State v Loomis, the defense argued that the court’s c ... Cite

Government information policy in the era of big data

Journal article Review of Policy Research · January 1, 2014 Reliable public sector information serves as a pivotal source for big data. Government postal codes, for instance, have been crucial for predicting demographics. Confidentiality, however, may be at risk when combined with other sources. Public sector infor ... Full text Cite

AMCIS 2008 panel report: Aging content on the web: Issues, implications,and potential research opportunities

Journal article Communications of the Association for Information Systems · September 28, 2009 Since its inception in the early 1990s,the World Wide Web (Web) has grown enormously. According to the "official Google blog" (Google 2008), the Web had 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique coexisting URL's as of July 25, 2008. Given the exponential ... Cite

Computer-Based Simulation Research

Journal article International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies · January 6, 2008 Simulation replicates aspects of real environments through models. A computer-based simulation replicates an environment through a computer program designed to consider multiple variables, interactions, and system constraints. Computer-based simulation is ... Full text Link to item Cite