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

iConference 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 8:00 am, – Saturday, February 6, 2010, 5:00 pm

The fifth annual iConference, held at the University of Illinois, will examine the impacts of the iSchool movement. The conference will include presentations from four I School students will feature professor Marti Hearst as a keynote speaker.

Working with Geospatial Data Using Open Source Tools

Monday, January 25, 2010, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This workshop will introduce techniques for working with and mapping geospatial data in a variety of formats

An Overview of Gov 2.0

Monday, January 25, 2010, 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

Laurel Ruma is an expert on "Government 2.0" and the open government movement.

Showcase: Information Organization Lab

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Experimental student projects from the Information Organization Lab course. Come see Vannevar Bush’s Memex implemented using Delicious, Hulu meets the semantic web, a prescription drug lookup interface, a Twitter recommendation engine and many more.

A student project from the 2008 Tangible User Interfaces course

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Try out students' interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Try out students' interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
(Exhibition repeats on Tuesday, December 8.)

Online Admissions Chat

Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and learn more about life at the I School.

Revealing a web of knowledge: mining quotations and ideas from a very large digital library of books

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

A new approach to the automatic data mining of repeated passages in scanned books, magazines, and newspapers

Data as Evidence

Friday, November 13, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Locating Ourselves: Delving into place-based storytelling

Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Leslie Rule, KQED
Design Futures Lecture

Very Large Scale Preservation; Free Speech and Access to Knowledge

Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Revolution Will be Digitized: How IT is Affecting Business and Competition

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology affects businesses and how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.

The Future of Sharism: Social Media's Impact in China

Friday, October 30, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Isaac Mao is a venture capitalist, social entrepreneur, and blogger and the co-founder of CNBlog.org

Prospective Student Open House

Thursday, October 29, 2009, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

An open house and information session for prospective I School students

Computer Mediated Transactions

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

What does the ubiquity of computer-mediated transactions mean for economics? Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, discusses the implications for contractual efficiency, incentive alignment, data extraction and analysis, experimentation, personalization, and customization.

Berkeley Prosopography Services and CollectionSpace

Friday, October 23, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

School of Information Career Fair

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Web Search and Information Credibility Analysis

Friday, October 16, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Predicting Social Security Numbers From Public Data

Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Unexpected privacy consequences in modern information economies, novel privacy risks associated with public information revelation, and ways that well-meaning information security policies can backfire.

Play for All – All Children, All Abilities

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm