Events

Upcoming events

Big Give 2025

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT, – Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT

Support the I School during Berkeley’s annual fundraising blitz.

Right from the Start: AI Policy and Democratic Values

Friday, March 14, 2025, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan explains how AI policies that centered the public’s rights and safety can build a digital future that supports democratic values and democratic institutions.

Archival Storage

Friday, March 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

David S. H. Rosenthal was the chief scientist and founder of Stanford’s LOCKSS program, aimed at long-term preservation of the web published materials.

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Berkeley in DC: Stories from Experts Who Influenced Policy in the Nation’s Capital

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

A panel of recent public servants provides a behind-the-scenes look at their work in Washington.

Identity, Authority and Ontology in the Age of AI

Friday, March 21, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

The Great Sea Change: Understanding and Responding to Changes in Information Seeking Behavior in the Age of AI

Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Suzanne Wones is the UC Berkeley University Librarian.

Two Research Presentations

Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

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Berkeley Center for New Media 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

Information Access Seminar: AnnaLee Saxenian

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 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.

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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.

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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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Looking Back Over 35 Years of the Information Access Seminar

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.

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School of Information 2025 Commencement

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

I School Seattle Meet-Up

Monday, July 16, 2018, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Alumni and students: meet new friends and mingle with old at an I School meet-up in Seattle.

School of Information May 2018 Commencement

Saturday, May 12, 2018, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2018 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

MIMS Final Project Showcase

Thursday, May 10, 2018, 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select one outstanding project from each track for the James R. Chen Award.

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Geospatial Data Platform Demo and Discussion

Monday, May 7, 2018, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Learn more about GEOWorks, the new geospatial data platform from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics

Friday, May 4, 2018, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Sebastian Benthall is a security scientist working at the intersection of computer science, economics, law, and philosophy.

Information Visualization Final Project Showcase

Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

It’s “Technically Fair” But You May Not Like It: Algorithmic Curation, Filtering, and Prediction Wrestles with Ethics and Public Opinion

Monday, April 30, 2018, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

What to do when software algorithms are designed for statistical fairness or legal compliance, but still seem unfair.

Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day

Monday, April 30, 2018, 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm

The Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day will highlight student-led projects that apply tech and data for social good.

Emotion in Social Media

Monday, April 30, 2018, 2:10 pm - 3:30 pm

New findings about emotions in social media and their implications for social, behavioral, and data sciences.

Search Support for All Kinds of Evidence

Friday, April 27, 2018, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How might we develop a unified framework for the description, indexing, and discovery of all kinds of evidence resources?

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select two outstanding projects for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Adversarial Machine Learning

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Doug Tygar is professor of information and computer science who works in the areas of computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce.

DataEDGE 2018

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 12:00 am

Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.