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Events

Upcoming events

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Berkeley Center for New Media 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference
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.

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Data Are Made, Not Found
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.

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School of Information 2025 Commencement
Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Reading Ahead: Considering The Book’s Future in the iPod Era
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
No Bull, No Spin: Comparing Public Tags with other Descriptive User Metadata
Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Seven Contexts for Service System Design
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Creativity in Feist
Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Julian Warner, of Queen's University, Belfast, presents an information science perspective on the famous Feist vs. Rural ruling.
Finding Things You Can't Read: Interactive Cross-Language Search for Monolingual Users
Friday, September 11, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A discussion of new multilingual, cross-lingual, speech recognition, and machine translation applications, including a user-centered evaluation of cross-language information retrieval.
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rssCloud Meetup 2.0
Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Back to School Barbecue
Sunday, August 30, 2009, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
All I School students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their families are invited to welcome our newest class to the I School family.
Building Computational Instruments for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday, August 28, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access
Friday, August 28, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:15 pm

Complete video is now available from the I School's recent conference on the opportunities and risks of the proposed Google Books settlement.

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Toward a New Legal Framework for Cybersecurity
Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
What role should the law play in the creation of more secure or trustworthy networks? Deirdre Mulligan sets forth a new legal framework for cybersecurity.
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Alumni and Friends Reception
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Reception for friends and alumni of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and the School of Librarianship, at the annual ALA Conference
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School of Information Commencement
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 2:00 pm
Honor the class of 2009 with student speakers, keynote speaker John Markoff of the New York Times, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.
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Master's 2009 Final Project Showcase
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Graduating master's students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems
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Interface Aesthetics Class Exhibition
Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
Showcase of student projects from the Interface Aesthetics class, applying graphic design principles to both print and electronic media.
Mixing and Remixing Information: Open House
Monday, May 11, 2009, 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Posters and demos of student projects from the "Mixing and Remixing Information" course, which reuse or recombine information to create something new.
Mining Events from Wikipedia
Friday, May 1, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
IT For Society Competition: Finalist Presentations
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The thirteen finalists include I School projects "Squash & Vine" and "Hyoumanity"
The Scholarly Journal and the 4th Paradigm of Science
Friday, April 24, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
STEP White Paper Competition: Finalist Symposium
Thursday, April 23, 2009, 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Presentations by five finalists, including the I school's "KnowPrivacy" project
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Making the High Tech Economy: Markets, States, and Publics
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Seán Ó Riain discusses how governments can encourage or hinder high tech growth and innovation, with the Irish high tech region as an example.

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