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Events

Upcoming events

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT, – Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT

Support the I School during Berkeley’s annual fundraising blitz.

Friday, March 14, 2025, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan explains how AI policies that centered the public’s rights and safety can build a digital future that supports democratic values and democratic institutions.

Friday, March 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

David S. H. Rosenthal was the chief scientist and founder of Stanford’s LOCKSS program, aimed at long-term preservation of the web published materials.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

A panel of recent public servants provides a behind-the-scenes look at their work in Washington.

Friday, March 21, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

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.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 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.

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.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 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.

Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch are retiring from the Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar after leading it for 69 consecutive semesters. In their final Information Access Seminar, the two look back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

Honor the class of 2025 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Previous events

Friday, March 19, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Tina Seelig shares surprising stories of true entrepreneurs overcoming obstacles, demonstrating that by creatively challenging assumptions, breaking the rules, and disregarding the impossible you can bring remarkable ideas to life.
Monday, March 15, 2010, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, March 12, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, March 12, 2010, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Conference to explore emerging legal and policy issues regarding cloud computing. Speakers from government, corporations, academia, and law firms will discuss privacy concerns, regulatory issues, consumer protection, intellectual property questions, and best practices.
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
A one-day unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, and related fields.
Friday, March 5, 2010, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Ben Shneiderman is the founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland at College Park and the author of Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies and Designing the User Interface.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
For I School students and alumni
Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Daniel Scheinman, general manager of the Cisco Media Solutions Group, is a long-time champion for developing new, network-based distribution models for digital content.
Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday, February 8, 2010, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' spring lecture series on Digital Technology in Humanities Scholarship.
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.
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
Monday, January 25, 2010, 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Laurel Ruma is an expert on "Government 2.0" and the open government movement.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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