Events

Upcoming events

Littlest Bear Virtual 5K Run/Walk 2024

Monday, July 29, 2024 - Sunday, August 4, 2024

A fun run/walk/roll for the I School community.

Cybersecurity Summer 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 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.

Data Science Summer 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 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.

A festive picnic on the grass in front of South Hall

I School Community Picnic

Sunday, August 18, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A festive summer gathering for I School students, alumni, staff, faculty, and friends.

Cybersecurity Fall 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Data Science Fall 2024 Capstone Project Showcase for 5th Year MIDS Students

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Data Science Fall 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

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.

Previous events

Strategic Interaction and Networks

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Rachel Kranton is the James B. Duke Professor of Economics at Duke University, where she studies how institutions and the social setting affect economic outcomes.

Predictive Models of Student Learning in K–16

Monday, March 11, 2013, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Zach Pardos is a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology exploring data-driven methodologies to aid learners and educators using virtual learning environments.

Public Search Interfaces to Plant Collections & Exploring Social Norms with the Crowd

Friday, March 8, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?

Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Joshua Gans is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he specializes in technological competition and innovation, economic growth, publishing economics, industrial organization, and regulatory economics.

Motivating persistence in the face of failure: Technological tools that enhance perseverance and learning

Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm

Catherine Chase is a postdoctoral scholar at Carnegie Mellon University; her research interests include sociable learning technologies, computer-based assessment, learning through contrast, and student motivation.

And The Bands Played On

Monday, March 4, 2013, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Joel Waldfogel is the Frederick R. Kappel Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

What is New in Libraries? — And How New?

Friday, February 22, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Peter Brantley <br />(photo by <a href="http://flic.kr/p/99B47j">Joi Ito</a>)

Designing Strategies for the Deployment of Open Annotation within the Scholarly Community

Friday, February 15, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar with Peter Brantley, director of scholarly communications at Hypothes.is.

Nuclear Forensics & Participatory Archiving

Friday, February 8, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), Phase 2: Current Status and Developments.

Friday, February 1, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Personal Digital Archiving & E-books

Friday, January 25, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Streams, Gardens, and Clouds: Visualizing Dynamic Data for Engagement, Education and the Environment

Thursday, January 24, 2013, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A day-long symposium on dynamic data visualization of urban trends, the environment, education, and health and humanitarian response.

Poster Session: Analyzing Big Data with Twitter

Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 4:10 pm - 6:30 pm

Student teams will present their applications to manage, analyze, and display Big Data from Twitter and other sources in innovative and intriguing ways.

2012 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings

Friday, December 7, 2012, 8:30 am, – Sunday, December 9, 2012, 6:00 pm

The School of Information hosts the PNC annual conference, with the theme “New Horizons: Information Technology Connecting Culture, Community, Time, and Place.”

Lo-Fi & Hi-Touch in the Age of Hi-Tech

Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture, with Scott Doorley, creative director of the Stanford d.school.

Research Agendas in Personal Digital Archiving

Friday, November 30, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

The Truth Is Out There: Preservation and the Cloud

Friday, November 16, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar, with David S. H. Rosenthal of the Stanford University LOCKSS project

The Future of Data: We Depend on You!

Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

A conversation with Mike Olson, co-founder and CEO of Cloudera, about Silicon Valley’s evolving ecosystem and the future of information technology in the age of Big Data.

Designing for In-the-Moment Interactions with Robotic Agents

Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture, with Leila Takayama of Willow Garage.