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Events

Upcoming events

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 - 9:00 pm

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

Previous events

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.

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

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Thursday, February 11, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PST

Steven Weber puts forward a compelling new model for global organization that integrates modern developments in technology and governance.

Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Jules S. Damji surveys emerging technologies to address the challenges of data at scale

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

David S. H. Rosenthal is the co-founder of the LOCKSS program at Stanford University.

Friday, January 29, 2021, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PST

Cash transfers to people in extreme poverty have become a policy tool of choice; should policy-makers go all the way to Universal Basic Income?

Friday, January 29, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Emerging science nationalism and its implications for the research enterprise and the global system of scholarly communication.

Monday, January 25, 2021, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PST

Can widespread misperceptions about others’ beliefs sustain social norms? How do social norms change when new information becomes available?

Friday, January 22, 2021, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PST

How team identity boosts worker engagement in a gig economy.

Friday, January 22, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation hides the uncomfortable truth: the Internet has always been affected by political realities. Our measurements reveal a multi-polar Internet.

Thursday, January 21, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Denny Lee is a developer advocate at Databricks

Thursday, December 17, 2020, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects.

Friday, December 4, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 12:00 am

Give to support the I School’s Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging efforts.

Friday, November 20, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, November 13, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Privacy-protection measures from a project training librarians as community privacy advocates.