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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

Friday, April 23, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Rob Day explores the concept of the “living document” as joining knowledge and experience, science and literature.

Thursday, April 22, 2021, 5:00 pm - 8:00 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.

Friday, April 16, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Cliff Lynch discusses cultural stewardship & “cancel culture” and Ivy Anderson of CDL discusses UC’s landmark open access contract with Elsevier.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 4:00 pm - 6:00 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.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

Tawana Petty responds to the racial bias baked into our data, digital, and technological systems

Monday, April 12, 2021, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm PDT

Understanding the recent resistance to facial recognition technologies, to put this moment in conversation and context.

Friday, April 9, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How Berkeley’s University Library rose to the challenge of providing course materials to all students in a fully virtual global environment.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

Richmond Wong presents his dissertation researchon the relationships between design practices and social values.

Friday, April 2, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Ryan Shaw is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm PDT

I School faculty members discuss their research and the importance of including the perspective of women and underrepresented minorities at the frontiers of information technology.

Friday, March 19, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Leslie Johnston is director of digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives.

Monday, March 15, 2021, 10:30 am - 11:30 am PDT

Ethan Zuckerman explores a model for rethinking and rebuilding social media and digital institutions as public goods.

Friday, March 12, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, March 12, 2021, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm PST

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 9:00 pm PST, – Thursday, March 11, 2021, 9:00 pm PST

Seize the moment during Big Give, Berkeley’s annual fundraising event.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

Monday, March 8, 2021, 12:00 am, – Thursday, March 11, 2021, 12:00 am

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

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

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Friday, February 26, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

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

Prediction games pit players against one another as they use open data and news stories to forecast the outcome of real-world events.