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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

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Discover how the Organization for Transformative Works built a model for non-corporate, user-driven, online participatory cultures.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 9:00 pm, – Thursday, March 12, 2020, 9:00 pm

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

Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.

Friday, March 6, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Roy Schwartz is a research scientist at the Allen institute for AI and at the computer science and engineering department at the University of Washington.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 4:10 pm - 8:00 pm

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

Monday, March 2, 2020, 8:45 am - 4:30 pm

Women in Data Science is a one-day technical conference bringing together data scientists and professionals from around the globe to discuss the latest research and applications of data science.

Friday, February 28, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, February 28, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Marco Ribeiro is a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on helping humans interact with machine learning models meaningfully.

Monday, February 24, 2020, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Madeleine Clare Elish uncovers the hidden labor behind automated aviation, driverless cars, small scale agriculture, grocery retail, and emergency healthcare.

Friday, February 21, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

A 2009 report was highly critical of many forensic practices. This is the first thorough analysis of the purportedly distinct patterns on the seams of denim pants.

Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of statistics and EECS. Her research focuses on practice, algorithm, and theory of statistical machine learning and causal inference.

Friday, February 14, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne is the assistant city manager of Palo Alto.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Work to develop an indigenous-led security fund in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Friday, February 7, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Social media users are generally averse to archiving their posts, but what can we learn from the the 1940 US Census?

Friday, February 7, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Maarten Sap is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington researching natural language processing for social understanding.

Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Gracen Brilmyer, a 2016 CTSP fellow and MIMS 2016 alum, presents research for their doctoral dissertation.

Friday, January 31, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, January 31, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Yonatan Belinkov is a postdoc at Harvard, where he works on language representations in neural networks.

Thursday, January 23, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Tal Linzen is an assistant professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University.