Events

Upcoming events

South Korea’s Internet Infrastructure: Risks, Idiosyncrasies, and Opportunities

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

Cybersecurity Spring 2025 Capstone Project Showcase

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.

Adventures in Factual Biography

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.

UC Berkeley AI Policy Research Symposium 2025

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

AI generated image of a robot sitting at a desk writing

Data Are Made, Not Found

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.

graphics of data analysis, data visualization and other data science tools

Data Science Spring 2025 Capstone Project Showcase

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.

Graphic of multiple raised fists holding smartphones

Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic Information Session

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.

Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch in approximately 1991.

Looking Back Over 35 Years of the Information Access Seminar and Celebratory Reception

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.

Information Visualization Final Project Showcase

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

Class projects in information visualization.

A student presents his project in front of a large audience

MIMS 2025 Final Project Showcase

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.

A group of graduating master's students at their commencement ceremony, wearing black caps and gowns with gold master's hoods.

School of Information 2025 Commencement

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

Data Science Summer 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, August 13, 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.

Cybersecurity Summer 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, August 5, 2020, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects.

Data Science Summer 2020 Capstone Project Showcase for 5th Year MIDS Students

Monday, August 3, 2020, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Littlest Bear Virtual 5K Run/Walk 2020

Monday, July 27, 2020, 12:01 am, – Sunday, August 2, 2020, 11:30 pm

A fun run/walk/roll for the I School Community! Proceeds benefit Diversity & Inclusion Fellowships.

Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19 in the Global South: Economic Impacts and Recovery

Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 9:00 am - 10:15 am

Campuswide online video series

Tribute to Spring 2020 Graduates

Sunday, May 17, 2020, 9:30 am - 10:15 am

An online event to honor the graduating class of 2020.

MIMS Final Project Showcase

Thursday, May 14, 2020, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating master’s 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.

Copy Theory

Friday, May 1, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

The history and theory of copying and of copies

Data Science Spring 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, April 30, 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.

Seminar Project Reports

Friday, April 24, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Student reports on e-commerce marketing, AI, and cloud information systems.

Data Science and User Experience: Making Data Science Useful for Earth Scientists

Thursday, April 23, 2020, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Sarah Poon and Deb Agarwal of LBNL discuss their experience at the intersection of data science and user experience.

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Understanding and Seeking Equity amid COVID-19

Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Campuswide online video series

UC Berkeley’s Digital Lifecycle Program: Mass Digitization of Special Collections for Use and Preservation

Friday, April 17, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How the UC Berkeley Library is digitizing its rare and special historical collections.

Photo courtesy of Ecole polytechnique / Paris / France (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/24UuxVw

Cybersecurity Spring 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects.

COVID-19 Surveillance

Friday, April 10, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan is an associate professor at the School of Information and the associate dean and Head of School

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Creating Informed Responses: Berkeley’s Computing and Data Science In Action

Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Campuswide online video series

Internet Law and Online Speech: An International Perspective

Monday, April 6, 2020, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Guest lecture for the course Info 281. Designing Against Hate: An Exploration of Speech and Affordances on Social Media

101 Years of Women

Friday, April 3, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

An informal discussion of women in the history and heritage of the School.

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Making Sense of Data, Social Distancing, and What Lies Ahead

Friday, April 3, 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Campuswide online video series

Rob Sanderson (photo: Sarah Waldorf/Getty Center)

Tiers of Abstraction and Audience in Cultural Heritage Data Modeling

Friday, March 13, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Rob Sanderson is a semantic architect at the J. Paul Getty Trust and a passionate advocate for open culture, linked open data, and the digitization of cultural heritage.