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Upcoming Events

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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.
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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.
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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

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Series on Justice and Content Governance: Restorative Justice Workshop
Oct 21, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.
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Who Broke Mechanical Turk?
Oct 14, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Crowdsourcing data has recently become mostly unusable. Catherine Marshall uncovers what’s happening.
Alex Tamkin
Self-Supervised Learning for the Real World
Oct 14, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Alex Tamkin is a Ph.D. student researching self-supervised learning, especially in multimodal and domain-general settings.
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The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India
Oct 12, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.
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Citizen Clinic Pizza Information Session
Oct 11, 2022, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
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.
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Contexts, Works, and Catalogs
Oct 7, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Michael Buckland & Wayne de Fremery propose context-based changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery.
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Series on Justice and Content Governance: Infrastructures, Assemblages, and Ecosystems
Oct 7, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.
Clifford Lynch
Stewardship: The Scope of the Challenge
Sep 30, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.
Arya McCarthy
Kilolanguage Learning, Projection, and Translation
Sep 30, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing
Hany Farid
Disinformation and Deepfakes
Sep 28, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
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.
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Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Looking Around the Corner
Sep 27, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.
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Matrix on Point: Humanitarian Technologies
Sep 26, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?
Chris Freeland
Controlled Digital Lending
Sep 23, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Chris Freeland is director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive.
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Series on Justice and Content Governance: Refiguring Systems and Justice
Sep 23, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
How conceptions of justice, especially restorative justice, can drive the structures and practices of content governance.
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Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them
Sep 21, 2022, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Behind the census’s neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories — you just have to know how to read them.
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Short Reports
Sep 16, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Short research presentations from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Siddharth Adelkar, Sarah Barrington, and Ameya Naik.
Clifford Lynch
Stewardship Lecture #1: The Scope of the Challenge.
Sep 9, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.
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Series on Justice and Content Governance: Constructions of Justice and “Ethical Tech”
Sep 9, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
The problems, potentials, and pitfalls of emphasizing justice in content governance systems, with Anna Lauren Hoffman and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg.
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MICS Meet & Greet: Fall 2022
Aug 31, 2022, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Open to all MICS students and alumni.  
Clifford Lynch
Context and Overview for the Stewardship Lectures
Aug 26, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

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