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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

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DataEDGE Conference 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014, 1:00 pm, – Friday, May 9, 2014, 6:00 pm
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.
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Open Data Project Exhibition
Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Exhibition of final projects from the course “Working with Open Data.”
Towards a Revolution in Publishing, and the Emerging New Calculus of Reader Privacy
Friday, May 2, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
How Two Graduates of this School Changed Librarianship in Japan
Friday, April 25, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Arnold Lund
Changing the Nature of Work
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
The new frontier in user interfaces is a constellation of wearable gadgets, tablets, smart phones, appliances, and more that can communicate with one another autonomously.
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Monday, April 21, 2014, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens’ use of social media.
Linked Data and Images: Building Blocks for Digital Cultural Heritage
Friday, April 18, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Mobiles, Media, and the Agency of Indian Youth
Friday, April 11, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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Toward Reproducible Computational Science: Reliability, Re-Use, and Readability
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.
Evaluation of a Data Science Environment
Friday, April 4, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Co-hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Big Data: Values and Governance
Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

This workshop, hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will examine the policy implications of the use of large data sets and sophisticated analytics for decision-making.

Progress Reports: Towards a Revolution in Publishing & Redesign of Reference Works
Friday, March 21, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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InfoCamp Berkeley 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
InfoCamp is an unconference for the information community. Join us for an inspiring day of user experience, data science, information architecture, interaction design, informatics, and more.
Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research: Where we stand today
Friday, March 14, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Jane Greenberg
Advancing Cyberinfrastructure through Metadata Research
Wednesday, March 12, 2014, 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Jane Greenberg is a professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the director of the SILS Metadata Research Center.
The Half-Empty Archive
Friday, March 7, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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Pan-Optics: Perspectives on Digital Privacy & Surveillance
Thursday, March 6, 2014, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
A one-day symposium on privacy protections, surveillance methods, and modes of resistance in a digital age.
Towards a Revolution in Publishing: Thoughts on a More Sustainable Future; and Methodology in Information Studies
Friday, February 28, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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Civil Liberties, Privacy, and National Security: A Conversation with The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
How should we balance national security and privacy and civil liberties in federal counterterrorism programs? Join members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to discuss government transparency, US surveillance programs, and the path forward.
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Connecting Big Data Semantics
Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm
Two use cases of the potential of semantic technologies for data integration and data analysis.
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