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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

Jimmy Lin
Making Sense of Big Data
Monday, February 24, 2014, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm
Jimmy Lin is an associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland.
Mindtools: Why tools mean as much as data for information literacy.
Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Daniel Russell is Google’s Über Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness
Social Networks and Archival Context: from R&D Project to Cooperative Program.
Friday, February 14, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
David Reiley
Online Ads and Offline Sales: Measuring the Effects of Online Advertising via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Does online advertising actually work? Google scientist David Reiley says it does — but not in the way you expect. In this lecture, he reveals the surprising impact of online advertising on bricks-and-mortar sales.
Benjamin Stokes
Brown Bag Seminar: A Reality Game to Cross Disciplines
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
Benjamin Stokes investigates how digital media foster civic engagement, informal learning, and activism.
"A lot has happened on Facebook since you last logged in": Speculations about the long-term fate of social media
Friday, February 7, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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NSA Spying, Snowden, and Sparking Change
Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
A timely and engaging conversation with Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties director at the ACLU of Northern California.
Transitions of Stewardship
Friday, January 31, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:10 pm
Redesigning Reference Works
Friday, January 24, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition
Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 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.
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Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition
Monday, December 9, 2013, 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.
OCLC Research Library Partnership: Registering Researchers in Authority Files
Friday, December 6, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Alternative Visions of Internet-like Connectivity
Friday, December 6, 2013, 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Investigating What Makes 3D Visualizations Difficult
Friday, November 22, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Information Access Seminar, with Marilyn Tremaine
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Social Innovation Hackathon
Friday, November 15, 2013, 6:00 pm, – Saturday, November 16, 2013, 5:00 pm
The Social Innovation Hackathon is sponsored by the Peace Corps, and will tackle real-world problems faced by Peace Corps projects around the world.
“Alternative Visions of Internet Connectivity” and “The Failure of Stewardship Organizations and the Transfer or Conservation of Cultural Materials”
Friday, November 15, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Information access seminar, with Nick Merrill and Clifford Lynch
Kevin Walker
From Data Visualisation to Data Manifestation
Thursday, November 14, 2013, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Design Futures Lecture, with Dr. Kevin Walker, Head of Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
War Stories from Tech Policy: Backdoor mandates, the cryptapocalypse, and license plates for drones
Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 11:40 am - 1:00 pm
Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the Chief Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology
Elisa Oreglia
From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China
Friday, November 1, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Elisa Oreglia presents her doctoral dissertation research on the role of migrant Chinese workers in the spread of technology, based on in-depth ethnographic studies in three small Chinese villages.
Careers in Information Policy: Technologists’ Contributions to Information Policy
Monday, October 28, 2013, 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Meet the technologists on the forefront of global information policy debates and find out how you can follow in their footsteps.
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