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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

Monday, May 2, 2016, 4:00 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.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

From Gamergate to revenge porn, cyberharassment and abuse disproportionately target women — often with devastating consequences. Join this expert panel to discuss how we can make a meaningful contribution to a gender-equal internet.

Thursday, April 21, 2016, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The rise of data science for social good and the relationship between optimizing for the bottom line vs. optimizing for social justice.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
How does machine learning unintentionally inherit society’s prejudices, implicit biases, and faulty heuristics?
Friday, April 15, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Katie Shilton is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland whose research explores ethics in mobile application development.

Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Maria Giudice is VP of experience design Autodesk and the author of Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design.
Friday, April 8, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Jim Michalko recently retired from his position as VP of research libraries at OCLC.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 5:30 pm
Join I School students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends for a night at the ballpark and pregame tailgate party.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Data-driven algorithms run more and more of the world — with speed and efficiency, but also unintended bias, unfairness, and incomprehensibility.
Saturday, April 2, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

A one-day workshop with UX leader Uday Gajendar will offer a high-intensity yet fun overview of major UX methods for software design projects.

Friday, April 1, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Christian Marc Schmidt is principal and founder of Schema, a creative design and technology studio focused on the intersection of interaction design and data visualization.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Robert West studies human behavior in social and information networks using data science, data mining, network analysis, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 9:40 am - 11:00 am
Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the chief technologist and director of the internet architecture project at the Center for Democracy & Technology.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Philip Guo developed Rosetta, a language-independent platform to visulalize code written in seven popular languages: Python, Java, C, C++, Ruby, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
Saturday, March 12, 2016, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
InfoCamp is an “unconference” — an intimate seminar-style event for anybody interested in information-related topics, including user experience, data science, information architecture, interaction design, informatics, and information and communication technologies for development.
Friday, March 11, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm