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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

"The Economics of Open Access" and "Metadata, Sex, and Amazon"
Friday, April 17, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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ICTD 2009 Conference
Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:00 am, – Sunday, April 19, 2009, 5:00 pm
The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), in Doha, Qatar
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Sustainable Innovation
Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Judy Estrin, the CEO of JLABS, LLC, and author of “Closing the Innovation Gap,” talks about the importance of reigniting sustainable innovation in business, education and government

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Reflections on the Google Booksearch Settlement
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 3:00 pm

I School Professor Pamela Samuelson delivers the University of North Carolina's third annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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The Wikipedia Revolution
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 4:00 pm

Andrew Lih recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots, and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers.

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Stuart Shieber on Open Access
Monday, March 30, 2009, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Stuart Shieber, head of Harvard University’s Office of Scholarly Communication, discusses Harvard's mandate of open access for its faculty members’ research publications.
The World According to grep: What Have We Been Searching For?
Friday, March 20, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Defending Your Civil Liberties in Cyberspace
Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Editing Historical Papers in a Digital Environment
Friday, March 13, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Designing for the Future of Interactive Entertainment
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Lessons from a Road Warrior
Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Economist John Rutledge discusses nonequilibrium thermodynamics, network failures and the information economy, and the role played by government officials and media in the neuroscience of fear, to demonstrate how the current global economic crisis is a network failure of the worldwide information system.
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Explaining Inequality Within and Between Information Societies
Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:00 pm

Philip Howard asks why technology advances more slowly in some societies than in others, and how policy-makers can help

Group Tour of Remodeled Bancroft Library
Friday, March 6, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII 2009)
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Career Fair
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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The Internets We Did Not Build
Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

David Clark, formerly the Internet's Chief Protocol Architect, discusses the reasons for the design of the Internet and possible implications if it had been built differently.

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web
Friday, February 27, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration
Monday, February 23, 2009, 4:00 pm
Student Progress Reports and iSchools Conference report
Friday, February 20, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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