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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Suzanne Wones is the UC Berkeley University Librarian.

Monday, April 7, 2025, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Rohit Chopra is the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a former Federal Trade Commission commissioner.

Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

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.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

AnnaLee Saxenian breaks down the shift from Google’s 1998 mission “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” to today’s highly contested information ecosystem.

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

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

Previous events

Friday, May 9, 2014, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
16 final projects by 43 students shed light on topics ranging from BitCoin to bike share, clinical trials to Chinese censorship, the cost of drugs to the cost of drought, and more.
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.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Exhibition of final projects from the course “Working with Open Data.”
Friday, April 25, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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.
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.
Friday, April 11, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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.
Friday, April 4, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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.

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.
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.
Friday, March 7, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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.
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.