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Events

Upcoming events

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

Friday, January 23, 2015, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Monday, December 15, 2014, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Projects use brainwave, heart rate, body movement, and other bio-sensing technologies for affective computing, context-aware security, e-commerce, neuro-marketing, privacy, quantified self, sentiment analysis, user interfaces, and more.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
Monday, December 8, 2014, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun. (Exhibition repeats Dec. 10.)
Friday, December 5, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Thursday, December 4, 2014, 3:40 pm - 5:30 pm
Thirteen pitches for the next big Silicon Valley startup.
Thursday, December 4, 2014, 2:10 pm - 3:30 pm
Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Gabriela Marcu designs health information systems that fit social practices and workflow, to alleviate the strain that chronic conditions place on our healthcare system.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 2:10 pm - 3:30 pm
(Presentations continue on December 4.)
Friday, November 21, 2014, 6:00 pm, – Saturday, November 22, 2014, 6:30 pm

“Hack for a Cause” — The 2nd annual Social Innovation Hackathon is partnering with Heifer International for 24 hours of hacking to end world hunger and poverty.

Friday, November 21, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Jessica Staddon is a research scientist and privacy product lead at Google working on leveraging data for better security and privacy.
Friday, November 14, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:10 pm
Friday, November 14, 2014, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, November 13, 2014, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Learn easy crypto tools and teach your friends and classmates and colleagues. Topics include Keybase & GPG, key signing, TOR browser, DNSSEC, encrypted chat, and the use of encryption in protests.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Lynda Weinman is co-founder and executive chair of lynda.com