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Events

Upcoming events

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 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.

Friday, April 18, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
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.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 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.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Learn more about the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289), a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. 

Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch are retiring from the Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar after leading it for 69 consecutive semesters. In their final Information Access Seminar, the two look back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Friday, May 9, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating MIMS 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.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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

Previous events

Friday, March 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Christine Borgman is a distinguished research professor in information studies at UCLA.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 9:00 pm PDT, – Thursday, March 14, 2024, 9:00 pm PDT

Support the I School during Berkeley’s 10th annual fundraising blitz.

Friday, March 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Javier Cha is a medievalist, digital historian, and technologist and principal investigator of the Big Data Studies Lab.

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Hear from notable thought leaders and celebrate individuals who have made significant impacts in tech policy governance, journalism, and innovation.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 9:30 am - 11:29 am

What implications does widespread biometric identification have on the future of privacy and surveillance?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, February 23, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Coye Cheshire explores the trustworthiness of health information in online environments.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Jevin West breaks down the threats of scientific disinformation, predatory publishing and pseudoscience, the reproducability crisis, and generative AI.

Friday, February 16, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Jevin West studies misinformation and how it spreads in science and society.

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

What implications does widespread biometric identification have on the future of privacy and surveillance?

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Join the High Commissioner and the Berkeley Human Rights Center for the official launch of the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations.

Friday, February 9, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The Open Book Collective is a partnership of open access publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, and other non-profit organizations.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Derek Manky is the chief security strategist & VP of global threat intelligence at Fortinet.

Friday, February 2, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The concept of relevance is central to information studies but has resisted clear analysis.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Alvitta Ottley examines the role of machine learning algorithms in expediting visual analysis, revealing data patterns, and fostering the discovery of novel insights — and confronts the risks of data bias, interpretability, and user trust.

Friday, January 26, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Ron Day explores a new philosophy of information and documents based on Robert Pagès, Bernd Frohmann, and Suzanne Briet.

Friday, January 19, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Clifford Lynch summarizes recent report releases and other publications and conference reports.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Drawing from work in law and design, Ryan Calo uses dark patterns, robots, generative artificial intelligence, and other examples to evidence the problem of socio-digital vulnerability.

Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Narges Mahyar discusses community-centered tools that empower the general public to engage in real-world sociotechnical problems.