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Events

Upcoming events

I School 5K
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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School of Information Commencement 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012, 2:00 pm
Honor the class of 2012 with student speakers, keynote speaker Caterina Fake, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.
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Master’s 2012 Final Project Showcase
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 4:00 pm - 8:10 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.
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Information Visualization Final Project Showcase
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fourteen student teams present their visualization projects, each on a very distinct topic. The teams show off their innovative work and knowledge at the intersection of data analysis, design, perception, and communication.
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What’s New About New Materialisms?
Friday, May 4, 2012, 9:00 am, – Saturday, May 5, 2012, 5:00 pm
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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
How is the Internet experienced in the margins of the global economy? I School professor Jenna Burrell presents a detailed study of the youth of Accra, Ghana, and how the Internet does — and sometime does not — connect them with the larger world.
Building the Reproducible Computational Science Movement: Catalyzing Action Through Policy, Software Tools, and Ideas
Friday, April 27, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Todd Carter
Empowering Libraries, Archives, and Museums with Crowd-sourced Human Computation and Linked Open Data
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
What role will museums and libraries play in the information technology landscape of the future? Todd Carter presents his vision of museums and libraries empowered by Web 2.0 and crowd-sourcing technologies.
Data Governance: Another Side of Data Curation
Friday, April 20, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
A discussion with Howard Rheingold, author of the new book Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. How can we use digital media as grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking neurotics? Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.
Memory Organizations and Evidence to Support Scholarship in the 21st Century
Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Marti Hearst
Building Government IT 2.0: A Personal Account of My Experiences as Chief IT Strategist for a U.S. Federal Agency
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Juliane Stiller
Interaction and Collaboration in Cultural Heritage Information Systems
Friday, April 6, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Alessandro Acquisti
An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
How do companies use Facebook to investigate potential employees? And does Facebook facilitate illegal employment bias?
Marcia J. Bates
Can You Spell Idiographic? — Designing Information Systems for Humanities Scholarship
Friday, March 23, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Irina Bokova <br>(photo <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/unescosantiago/5040338206/">courtesy of UNESCO</a>)
Panel on Information Access & Freedom in the Digital Age
Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Panel discussion with Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO; privacy and censorship scholars Deirdre Mulligan & Nicole Wong; and Chinese human-rights activist Qiang Xiao; moderated by Geoffrey Nunberg.
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InfoCamp 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
InfoCamp Berkeley is an unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, or related fields.
Whose Content is it Anyway? A User Perspective on the Ownership and Control of Social Media
Friday, March 16, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Personal Digital Archiving: Discussion Based on the Personal Digital Archiving 2012 Conference
Friday, March 9, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Studies in Collective Memory: Towards Computational History through Large Scale Text Mining
Friday, March 2, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
David Ayman Shamma
Social Substrates: People and the data they make
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
David A. Shamma is a media artist and research scientist studying creative expression and sharing at Yahoo! Research.
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