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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

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Jeff Hancock is a leading expert on technology’s role in deception and trust. Hancock is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in Communication.

Friday, October 21, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short reports from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Sarah Barrington, Ameya Naik, and Siddharth Adelkar

Friday, October 21, 2022, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Jeff Wu is a research engineer at OpenAI working on language modeling (e.g. GPT-2) and alignment (InstructGPT).

Friday, October 21, 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am PDT

A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.

Friday, October 14, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Crowdsourcing data has recently become mostly unusable. Catherine Marshall uncovers what’s happening.

Friday, October 14, 2022, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Alex Tamkin is a Ph.D. student researching self-supervised learning, especially in multimodal and domain-general settings.

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

The Citizen Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

Friday, October 7, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland & Wayne de Fremery propose context-based changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery.

Friday, October 7, 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am PDT

How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.

Friday, September 30, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Friday, September 30, 2022, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

We are awash in disinformation of lies, conspiracies, and now a new form of manipulated media — so-called deepfakes. Hany Farid explains how deepfakes are created and how to tell truth from fiction.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.

Monday, September 26, 2022, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PDT

How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?

Friday, September 23, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Chris Freeland is director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive.

Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am PDT

How conceptions of justice, especially restorative justice, can drive the structures and practices of content governance.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

Behind the census’s neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories — you just have to know how to read them.

Friday, September 16, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short research presentations from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Siddharth Adelkar, Sarah Barrington, and Ameya Naik.

Friday, September 9, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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