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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.

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.

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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

Mike Ananny
Networked Journalism and a Public Right to Hear in an Age of Newsware and APIs
Monday, November 21, 2011, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
The public “right to hear” has historically underpinned models of democratic freedom and press autonomy. What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments?
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Europeana and Beyond: User Interaction and Collaboration in Multilingual Cultural Heritage Information Systems
Friday, November 18, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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The Digital Transformation of National Identity
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Digital identity systems are quietly reshaping the world, changing how we cross borders, conduct commerce, and interact with our governments. How can we understand the incredible opportunities of these technologies — along with their enormous challenges and risks?
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Online Admissions Chat
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and learn more about life at the I School.
Garth Johnson
The Extreme Craft Roadshow
Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, a blog which vacillates gleefully between playful, provocative, and downright rude, presents a fast-paced hour of the website’s “greatest hits”, proving that the lines between art, craft, and design have become hopelessly blurred.
Information Access Old and New
Friday, November 4, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Nineteenth-century information-access techniques (indexing, cataloging, classification), implemented successfully in the 20th century (online catalogs, Medline, OCLC, etc.), now seem outmoded and irrelevant in the Web 2.0 era. Are today's techniques just old wine in new bottles? Or really new and different?
Three Social Studies
Friday, October 28, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Three doctoral students present research projects about information systems and Chinese migrant workers, the politics of information sharing in disaster relief, and what happens when online communities meet in real life.
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Why PowerPoint Is the Biggest Software Pirate and How It Can Be Fixed
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Finding and using externally produced media is typically a cumbersome process. New software provides access to various legal sources of images built right into the creative workflow and automates the process of attribution.
Nuclear Forensics: A Scientific Search Problem
Friday, October 21, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Regina Connell
Beyond Design Thinking
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm
"Design is sexy; craft is frumpy." It's time to kill that particular trope, and it's time to bring them together, says Regina Connell, the founder and editor-in-chief of Handful of Salt, an online magazine devoted to the craft of modern design.
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Digital Diversity: Exploring Global Media By Starting With Culture and Community
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Ramesh Srinivasan reports on his fieldwork on technology, culture, and community-driven design from Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India.
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Prospective Student Open House
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Prospective students are invited to visit classes during the day, or attend the information session at 5:30 pm. RSVP required.
Editors' Notes and Humanities Scholarship
Friday, October 14, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
A report on "Editorial Practices and the Web", a two-year Mellon Foundation–supported project to move the editors' notes into digital form and make them openly accessible.
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Online Admissions Chat
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and admissions staff and learn more about life at the I School.
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Alumni & Friends Reception
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Reception during the during the ASIS&T annual meeting, for alumni and friends of the I School, SIMS, the School of Library & Information Studies, and the School of Librarianship.
Names and Lives In the Cultural Record
Friday, October 7, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Lada Adamic
Information Dynamics in a Socially Networked World
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Lada Adamic is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
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The Tragedy of Survey Methodology
Monday, October 3, 2011, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Why do people create, interact, and collaborate online? What are the deep motivations that drive so many to invest significant time and energy on Facebook, Flickr, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Groups, YouTube, and countless other sites?
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Spatially Aware History Teaching
Friday, September 30, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Uday Danvadate
Co-Imagining Futures
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm

How can breakthrough solutions be found for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces, simply by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future?

Uday Dandavate of SonicRim speaks at the semester's first Design Futures Lecture.

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