Events

Upcoming events

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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.

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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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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

Can We Afford Privacy from Surveillance? Do We Want To?

Wednesday, September 23, 2015, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

As surveillance technology gets cheaper, what are the consequences for our privacy? Will we have a future with more privacy or less — and which do we want?

Best Practices for Reproducible, Collaborative Data Science

Monday, September 21, 2015, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Online "Applications in Data Science" lecture

Archiving the Corporation: Managing Historical Information at Kaiser Permanente

Friday, September 18, 2015, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Imagining our Center for Technology, Society & Policy

Friday, September 11, 2015, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

What does pervasive security failure mean for archives, cultural memory, and scholarship? Some introductory speculations and a discussion

Friday, August 28, 2015, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, August 26, 2015, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Graduating students from the inaugural class of the Master of Information & Data Science (MIDS) degree present their capstone projects to the public in an online webinar.

School of Information Commencement 2015

Saturday, May 16, 2015, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2015 with keynote speaker Carl Bass, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.

MIMS Final Project Showcase

Thursday, May 14, 2015, 4:00 pm - 8:15 pm

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

Information Visualization Final Project Demonstrations

Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Twelve projects shed light on topics ranging from Jeopardy to Twitter to menus, the cost of tuition to the cost of broadband, the quantified self, and more!

Internet of Things Project Showcase

Monday, May 11, 2015, 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Student projects from Info 290 course.

Bridging the Digital Divide Class Project Presentations: Internet delivery to rural communities

Monday, May 11, 2015, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Student projects were based on field trips up the coast to Mendocino County to see the Further Reach fixed wireless network, interviews with rural residents of the region, and a pilot survey.

Interface Aesthetics Final Class Exhibition

Friday, May 8, 2015, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Showcase of students’ mobile and desktop UIs and design processes for typography, grid, colors, and overall visual hierarchy.

DataEDGE 2015

Thursday, May 7, 2015, 12:00 am, – Friday, May 8, 2015, 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.

Supporting Digital Scholarship

Friday, May 1, 2015, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm