Events

Jeff MacKie-Mason is the university librarian and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiations team, which carried out the recent negotiations with Elsevier.

Dr. Andrew L. Brooks is the Chief Data Scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

North American premiere of In DOCAM’s Footsteps, a new documentary film with scenes shot in South Hall.

Instagram filters, Google Map’s live directions, and Pokémon Go demonstrate how augmented reality enhances “real life.”

How technical systems employing algorithms are shaping and displacing human decision-making.

Eric Horvitz is a technical fellow and director at Microsoft Research.

The premier student-run conference for the information community.

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

Workshop with Professor Shoshana Zuboff

When algorithms are used for predicting recidivism, do they make the criminal justice system more fair and accurate, or do they perpetuate racial bias?

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.

Machine learning algorithms are not neutral observers of the world, but see what they are trained to see.

The One Laptop per Child project failed. So why do the same utopian visions that inspired it still motivate other projects to “disrupt” education and development?

Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

How good data models facilitate optimization and generalization in machine learning.