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Events

Upcoming events

Monday, April 7, 2025, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Rohit Chopra is the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a former Federal Trade Commission commissioner.

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

AnnaLee Saxenian breaks down the shift from Google’s 1998 mission “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” to today’s highly contested information ecosystem.

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.

Friday, April 18, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
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.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Learn more about the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289), a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. 

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.

Friday, May 9, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating MIMS students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Friday, September 22, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Findings from Ithaka S+R’s research into the successes, needs, and gaps in the publishing community’s shared infrastructure

Thursday, September 21, 2023, 10:10 am - 11:30 am

Alessandro Acquisti’s research estimates how much consumer data is worth, who profits from it, and what difference privacy laws make.

Friday, September 15, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How Twitter’s recent changes might affect reproducible research and good research practice.

Thursday, September 14, 2023, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The YouTube Effect, a documentary by Alex Winter, takes viewers on a timely and gripping journey inside the cloistered world of YouTube and parent Google.

Monday, September 11, 2023, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Jameeka Green Aaron is the chief information security officer for Okta’s Customer Identity Cloud.

Friday, September 8, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

A discussion of the challenges, with adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Friday, August 25, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Librarians’ traditional distinction between “known item” search and “subject” search leads to theoretical clarification of the nature of catalogs, of metadata, and of search.

Thursday, August 17, 2023, 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.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 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.

Thursday, June 22, 2023, 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm PDT

Celebrate our student and alumni mentors.

Monday, May 15, 2023, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2023 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Thursday, May 11, 2023, 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 4:10 pm - 5:15 pm

Cornelia Ilin gives a high-level introduction to the transformer model architecture, using bidirectional representations from transformers (BERT) on electronic medical health records to predict pediatric patients’ diagnosis codes.

Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:10 pm - 5:15 pm PDT

Ali Montazeralghaem researches recommender systems, deep learning and reinforcement learning methods, and natural language processing.

Monday, May 8, 2023, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Some of the most recognized female leaders in tech discuss the challenges they have faced in their careers and how they have overcome them.

Friday, May 5, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 4:10 pm - 5:15 pm

The creator of open-source projects FinRL, ElegantRL, and FinGPT outlines the deep learning revolution and his experiences applying it to the challenging domain of the financial market.

Friday, April 28, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Funding for academic research libraries nationally and internationally has been declining for at least two decades. Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason presents critical choices facing research libraries.

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 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, April 21, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short research presentations and updates.