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Events

Upcoming events

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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.

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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. 

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A Retrospective on 35 Years of the Information Access Seminar, 1991–2025
Friday, April 25, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar is retiring after 69 consecutive semesters. Michael Buckland looks back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Clifford Lynch
A Tribute to Clifford Lynch
Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Clifford Lynch passed away on April 10. A series of short reports by colleagues and friends illuminate his many and varied contributions.

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Biosensory Computing Project Showcase, Part 1
Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Student projects from the Biosensory Computing course.

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Biosensory Computing Project Showcase, Part 2
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Student projects from the Biosensory Computing course.

INFOVIZ
Information Visualization Final Project Showcase
Friday, May 9, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

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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.

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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.

Outstanding Mentor Awards | UC Berkeley School of Information
A Celebration of Mentorship at the I School
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm PDT

Celebrate our student and alumni mentors.

Previous events

Gracen Brilmyer
“The perverse absent-presence”: Disability and the perception of archival representation
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.

Michael Buckland
Genres of Library Service: Economics, Ideology, Technology, etc.
Friday, January 31, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Yonatan Belinkov
Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yonatan Belinkov
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.

Clifford Lynch
Perhaps We Have Framed the Research Data Management Challenge Incorrectly?
Friday, January 24, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Tal Linzen
Syntactic Generalization in Natural Language Inference
Thursday, January 23, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

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

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How to (Machine) Read a Novel: Modeling Events and Information in Literary Fiction
Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Novels pose unique challenges overlooked by current natural language processing systems.

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School of Information Winter 2020 Commencement
Monday, January 13, 2020, 12:00 pm

Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of capstone awards.

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Demographics, Social Networks, and Mobile Phone Usage: Introduction and Take up of Community Cellular Networks in the Philippines
Friday, December 13, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Clifford Lynch
Developments in Networked Information: Review and Prospects
Friday, December 6, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Yoav Artzi
Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yoav Artzi
Friday, December 6, 2019, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm
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Privacy Engineering Project Showcase
Thursday, December 5, 2019, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Final class projects from Info 290. Introduction to Privacy Engineering.

Nick Sullivan
Cryptography in the Wild
Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

The evolution of cryptography on the Internet, with Nick Sullivan of Cloudflare.

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AI & Responsible Design: Perspectives from Practitioners
Monday, November 25, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

How practitioners think about design for algorithmic systems and products.

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Two Reports: Deepfakes and Self-Driving Cars
Friday, November 22, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Kate Starbird
Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work
Monday, November 18, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Key insights for defending against strategic information operations.

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Two Talks: “Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models” and “Probing Neural NLP: Ideas and Problems”
Monday, November 18, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Berkeley Natural Language Processing Seminar

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames
Author Conversation on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”
Friday, November 15, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Morgan Ames and LA Review of Books editor Michele Pridmore-Brown discuss the legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and our refusal to learn from its failure.

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Denver Meet-up
Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.

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Cybersecurity 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Steven Weber and Amit Elazari forecast cybersecurity in 2024 to illuminate what’s at stake today. (A “Discover Cal” lecture.)

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Two Talks: Incorporating Sense-making Into Descriptions of Information Systems and Scenarios and Issues in “Send Computation to the Data” Repository Models
Friday, November 8, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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