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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, December 8, 2021, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Bryan Pardo discusses his lab’s work bridging the gap between digital audio software interfaces and the musicians, podcasters, and sound artists who use the tools.

Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

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

Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Technoculture is the American mythos and ideology. Where does Blackness manifest in Western technoculture?

Friday, December 3, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Recent developments in networked information, with a focus on research and higher education.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 10:00 am - 11:30 am PST

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 12:00 am

Support diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice at the School of Information.

Monday, November 29, 2021, 10:00 am - 11:30 am PST

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Friday, November 19, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

David S. H. Rosenthal: “Blockchain: What’s Not To Like?” and Clifford Lynch: “Priorities for Capital Investment in Digital Infrastructure and Services”

Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Dr. David Robinson explores the algorithms we use to define ourselves, and how they can work as enchantments — stories that make themselves come true.

Friday, November 12, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Mary Elings and Christina V. Fidler discuss the Bancroft Library’s approach to managing born-digital collections and building a sustainable digital archives program.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Dr. Daniel Greene explores why technology solutions aren’t solving complex social problems such as STEM education and the digital divide.

Friday, November 5, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

PhiloBiblon is a database of primary sources for the study of medieval Iberian culture, built on a Wikibase platform.

Friday, November 5, 2021, 12:10 pm - 2:00 pm

Dr. Doris Lee presents her dissertation research enabling data analysts to identify trends and patterns, generate and verify hypotheses, and detect outliers and anomalies.

Friday, November 5, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

Dr. Latanya Sweeney pioneered the field of data privacy and launched the study of algorithmic fairness.

Friday, October 29, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How and why the ​University of California migrated its ten campuses, two regional library facilities, ​and  California Digital Librar​y to a single centralized catalog system.

Thursday, October 28, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Vini Jaiswal explains the “data lakehouse” data paradigm, which provides all of the capabilities needed to train and deploy machine learning models.

Friday, October 22, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Alan Inouye discusses how policy-making has evolved in the library & education sectors during the pandemic and possible future directions.

Thursday, October 21, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Bill Marczak shares his experience identifying new threat actors, including Candiru, a secretive Israel-based company that sells spyware exclusively to governments

Saturday, October 16, 2021, 12:00 am, – Sunday, October 17, 2021, 12:00 am

The 12th annual InfoCamp explores conflicts in data control and policy. The two-day event, led by IMSA, features an ideathon and a speaker series. The event is free and open to everyone in the information community.

Friday, October 15, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short reports on various topics, including JCDL, SNAC, information science history, relevance theory, and more.