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

Space of Flows and Space of Places in Networked Social Movements

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

with Manuel Castells

So You Want To Publish Open Access?

Monday, October 21, 2013, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Workshop sponsored by the UC Berkeley Open Access Initiative

Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval: From Statistics to Ethics

Monday, October 21, 2013, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Special lecture, with Matthew Lease, University of Texas at Austin.

Indexing it All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data

Friday, October 11, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar

Ark.com: Organizing the world’s social information

Friday, October 4, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar, with Patrick Riley

Dated Data: Presentism and California Trademarks

Friday, September 20, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar, with Paul Duguid

Analytics 3.0: Big Data and Small Data in Big and Small Companies

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Dean’s Lecture with Tom Davenport of Babson College, co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics

Mutual Recursion: What Happens When Politics Becomes Code?

Friday, September 13, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar, with Warren Sack of UC Santa Cruz

Can “Open Data” Improve Democratic Governance?

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 8:30 am - 6:00 pm

One-day conference exploring the impact of open data on public policy and democratic governance in the digital age.

The Impact of “Likes” on the Sales of Movies in Video-on-Demand: a Randomized Experiment

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Special Lecture, with Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University

Sprinting with the Community

Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Dean's Lecture, with Jon Whittle of Lancaster University

NET Institute Conference on Network Economics

Friday, June 7, 2013, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm

DataEDGE Conference

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 1:00 pm, – Friday, May 31, 2013, 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 quickly on the current state of the Big Data revolution.

School of Information Commencement 2013

Saturday, May 18, 2013, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2013 with student speakers, keynote speaker DJ Patil, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.

MIMS Final Project Showcase

Thursday, May 16, 2013, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. An panel of judges will select one outstanding project from each track for the James R. Chen Award.

Innovation and Information: Gallery & Presentation

Friday, May 10, 2013, 9:30 am - 11:30 am

Student project exhibition from the course Info 290. Innovation and Information, which teaches processes and tools for innovative leadership in the face of “wicked problems.”

Information Visualization Showcase

Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Showcase of student projects from Info 247: Information Visualization.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Wednesday, May 8, 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.

Information Visualization Showcase

Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Showcase of student projects from Info 247: Information Visualization.

Open Data Project Exhibition

Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm

Final student projects from the course “Info 290T. Working with Open Data.”