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Events

Upcoming events

Monday, July 29, 2024 - Sunday, August 4, 2024

A fun run/walk/roll for the I School community.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 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.

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 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.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

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.

Previous events

Friday, September 22, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Findings from Ithaka S+R’s research into the successes, needs, and gaps in the publishing community’s shared infrastructure

Thursday, September 21, 2023, 10:10 am - 11:30 am

Alessandro Acquisti’s research estimates how much consumer data is worth, who profits from it, and what difference privacy laws make.

Friday, September 15, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How Twitter’s recent changes might affect reproducible research and good research practice.

Thursday, September 14, 2023, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The YouTube Effect, a documentary by Alex Winter, takes viewers on a timely and gripping journey inside the cloistered world of YouTube and parent Google.

Monday, September 11, 2023, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Jameeka Green Aaron is the chief information security officer for Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud.

Friday, September 8, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

A discussion of the challenges, with adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Friday, August 25, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Librarians’ traditional distinction between “known item” search and “subject” search leads to theoretical clarification of the nature of catalogs, of metadata, and of search.

Thursday, August 17, 2023, 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.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 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.

Thursday, June 22, 2023, 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm PDT

Celebrate our student and alumni mentors.

Monday, May 15, 2023, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2023 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Thursday, May 11, 2023, 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Graduating master’s 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.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 4:10 pm - 5:15 pm

Cornelia Ilin gives a high-level introduction to the transformer model architecture, using bidirectional representations from transformers (BERT) on electronic medical health records to predict pediatric patients’ diagnosis codes.

Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:10 pm - 5:15 pm PDT

Ali Montazeralghaem researches recommender systems, deep learning and reinforcement learning methods, and natural language processing.

Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Some of the most recognized female leaders in tech discuss the challenges they have faced in their careers and how they have overcome them.

Friday, May 5, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 4:10 pm - 5:15 pm

The creator of open-source projects FinRL, ElegantRL, and FinGPT outlines the deep learning revolution and his experiences applying it to the challenging domain of the financial market.

Friday, April 28, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Funding for academic research libraries nationally and internationally has been declining for at least two decades. Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason presents critical choices facing research libraries.

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 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.

Friday, April 21, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short research presentations and updates.