Events

Upcoming Events

MIMS 2024 Final Project Showcase

May 9, 2024, 5:00 pm to 7:30 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.

School of Information May 2024 Commencement

May 18, 2024, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2024 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Cybersecurity Summer 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Aug 7, 2024, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Previous Events

No Bull, No Spin: Comparing Public Tags with other Descriptive User Metadata

Sep 25, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Seven Contexts for Service System Design

Sep 24, 2009, 8:00 am to 9:30 am

Creativity in Feist

Sep 18, 2009, 3:00 pm to 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

Sep 11, 2009, 3:00 pm to 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.

rssCloud Meetup 2.0

Sep 9, 2009, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Back to School Barbecue

Aug 30, 2009, 12:00 pm to 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

Aug 28, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access

Aug 28, 2009, 9:00 am to 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.

Toward a New Legal Framework for Cybersecurity

Aug 12, 2009, 2:00 pm to 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.

Chicago skyline (photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/atelier_tee/475960290/">Terence Faircloth</a>)

Alumni and Friends Reception

Jul 12, 2009, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Reception for friends and alumni of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and the School of Librarianship, at the annual ALA Conference

School of Information Commencement

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.

Master's 2009 Final Project Showcase

May 14, 2009, 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Graduating master's students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems

Interface Aesthetics Class Exhibition

May 11, 2009, 4:10 pm to 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

May 11, 2009, 12:45 pm to 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

May 1, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

IT For Society Competition: Finalist Presentations

Apr 29, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The thirteen finalists include I School projects "Squash & Vine" and "Hyoumanity"

The Scholarly Journal and the 4th Paradigm of Science

Apr 24, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

STEP White Paper Competition: Finalist Symposium

Apr 23, 2009, 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Presentations by five finalists, including the I school's "KnowPrivacy" project