School of Information

Breaking News

I School's First Endowed Chair Will Be the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics

The School of Information is delighted to announce the creation of its first endowed chair, the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics, thanks to a generous gift from Hal R. Varian, the founding dean of the I School and now the Chief Economist at Google, with matching funds from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Audio & Video

Howard Rheingold: "Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy"

Audio from January 23 Special Lecture (length: 89:46)

Geoff Nunberg's Word of the Year is "Occupy", on NPR's Fresh Air

Audio (length: 5:58)

David Weinberger: "Too Big to Know: How the new dimensions of information are transforming business — and life"

Audio from November 30 Distinguished Lecture (length: 80:12)

KALW Radio Features Brian Carver and His Teaching with Wikipedia

Audio (length: 6:17)

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Don't Miss

February 1

The Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: An Information Issue

Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.

February 6

New ARL Best Practices in Fair Use

Half-day workshop with new insights into how librarians can apply fair use principles to resolve copyright challenges.

February 14

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy, and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon addresses the fundamental and urgent question of how technology should support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users.

Press Coverage

The I School in the news

Jan 22: The New York Times profiles I School alumna danah boyd (Ph.D. 2008)

Jan 11: Jess Hemerly (MIMS 2011) discusses open-source metadata in the Google policy blog

Jan 11: Geoff Nunberg Comments on the Comeback of Spelling

Jan 6: Morten Hansen's book helps consulting company Innovisor land major clients

Breaking News

I School Students Lead UI Prototyping Course

Ariel Haney had been hoping to take the UI Prototyping Design Clinic course before graduating this spring. When she discovered that the course wasn’t scheduled to be taught this year, Haney made an unusual decision — she decided to teach the course herself.

Joshua Blumenstock Wins Braunstein Prize for Best Student Research Paper

Blumenstock’s research measures how person-to-person financial transfers via mobile phone affect the risk and income volatility of the agriculturally-based economies of rural Rwanda.

Vimal Kini Awarded 2012 Mayfield Fellowship

Fellowship includes a year of mentoring in technology entrepreneurship and connections with leading Silicon Valley technology companies.