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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, January 31, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Friday, February 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The Chips Act subsidizes US and Taiwanese chip manufacturers to locate new facilities in the United States. What are the prospects for success?

Friday, February 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Paul Duguid recently retired as an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm PST

As cybersecurity threats and the digital landscape evolve, secure communication has never been more critical. A panel of industry professionals, consultants, and journalists share their experiences and insights.

Friday, March 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
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.

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.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lina Nilsson is a biochemical engineer and the COO of Enlitic, a medical deep learning company.

Thursday, July 6, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Using lens of reverse mode autodiff, with examples and Jupyter notebooks in Python and TensorFlow.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Richard Socher is the chief scientist at Salesforce and researches artificial intelligence (deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision)

Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Deep learning has enabled major breakthroughs in the fields of computer vision, speech recognition, and control systems.

Saturday, May 13, 2017, 12:00 pm

Honor the class of 2017 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Thursday, May 11, 2017, 5:00 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.

Monday, May 8, 2017, 12:00 am, – Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 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.

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm

Final project presentations for the course Info 290T. Data Mining and Analytics.

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

What quantum technologies are on the horizon and how will they influence the future of international security?

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm

Final project presentations for the course Info 290T. Data Mining and Analytics.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The challenges of using advanced analytics to monitor cybersecurity threats.

Monday, May 1, 2017, 5:00 pm - 7:00 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.

Monday, May 1, 2017, 1:10 pm - 2:30 pm

Analyses of real-world data with the potential benefit the world’s poor.

Friday, April 28, 2017, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor at the Texas A&M University Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm

A panel discussion of the role of digital media in political action, advocacy, and public life, from the Berkeley campus to the national stage.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

How is the information revolution affecting the future of journalism and an informed society?

Saturday, April 22, 2017, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

Join the BioSENSE research group and experience Virtual Reality while exploring signals from your body like heart beat, brainwaves, and more, at Cal’s annual Open House.

Friday, April 21, 2017, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Mapping and visualization of transdisciplinary data with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

How should social media police inappropriate speech and anti-social behavior?