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Events

Upcoming events

Monday, April 7, 2025, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Rohit Chopra is the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a former Federal Trade Commission commissioner.

Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

AnnaLee Saxenian breaks down the shift from Google’s 1998 mission “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” to today’s highly contested information ecosystem.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Friday, April 18, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Learn more about the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289), a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. 

Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch are retiring from the Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar after leading it for 69 consecutive semesters. In their final Information Access Seminar, the two look back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Friday, May 9, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating MIMS students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

Honor the class of 2025 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Previous events

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Friday, April 8, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Roger Schonfeld reviews recent concerns about research misconduct, publishing fraud, and misinformation and discusses potential policy responses.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

How do we know whether AI is treating us fairly and whether its assessments are objective?

Friday, April 1, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Wayne de Fremery of Sogang University in South Korea develops new technologies for investigating Korean literature and documentary traditions.

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Srijith Rajamohan walks through the foundations of scalable machine learning, from data provenance to model deployment and monitoring.

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

The rapid evolution of data scraping technologies is forcing us to reconsider some evergreen questions.

Friday, March 18, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How would information studies and information services benefit from drawing more on the humanities?

Friday, March 11, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

How can or should research universities support data science tools and techniques as a research support service, alongside research data management and curation?

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 9:00 pm PST, – Thursday, March 10, 2022, 9:00 pm PST

24-hour fundraising drive

Monday, March 7, 2022, 12:00 am, – Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 12:00 am

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 4, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Chris Hoofnagle explains the genesis of quantum information science and considers how policymakers might anticipate the benefits and risks of quantum technologies.

Friday, February 25, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

A new report demystifies the research information management landscape with a first-of-its-kind documentation of US research university practices.

Friday, February 18, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, February 11, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Friday, February 4, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Daniella Lowenberg of the California Digital Library discusses integrity and ethical issues in data publishing and community-built resources.

Friday, January 28, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Relevance has long been considered central to information science. A deeper analysis leads to a narrower, more precise definition.

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Chris Hoshino-Fish introduces Delta Live Tables, an optimized system for data management in the cloud.

Friday, January 21, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Implications of Carnegie Mellon’s Cloud Lab for research resilience, scholarly communication, data management, budgeting, and more.

Sunday, January 16, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Honor the class of 2021 with keynote speaker Jennifer Urban; faculty tributes; and presentation of capstone awards.

Thursday, December 16, 2021, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.