Events

Upcoming Events

Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Data and Artificial Intelligence

Jan 21, 2021, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Denny Lee is a developer advocate at Databricks

Jan 22, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation hides the uncomfortable truth: the Internet has always been affected by political realities. Our measurements reveal a multi-polar Internet.

Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy

Jan 22, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How team identity boosts worker engagement in a gig economy.

How New Information Can Change Old Social Norms

Jan 25, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Can widespread misperceptions about others’ beliefs sustain social norms? How do social norms change when new information becomes available?

Science Nationalism

Jan 29, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Emerging science nationalism and its implications for the research enterprise and the global system of scholarly communication.

Cash Transfers at Scale

Jan 29, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Cash transfers to people in extreme poverty have become a policy tool of choice; should policy-makers go all the way to Universal Basic Income?

Information Access Seminar: David S. H. Rosenthal

Feb 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

David S. H. Rosenthal is the co-founder of the LOCKSS program at Stanford University.

The Future of Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale: A Look at MLflow, Delta Lake, and Emerging Tools

Feb 10, 2021, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Jules S. Damji surveys emerging technologies to address the challenges of data at scale

Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton

Historicizing Information

Feb 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Information Access Seminar: Catherine Marshall

Feb 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Seeking Research: A State of the Art

Mar 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Post-Covid Issues

Mar 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar: Leslie Johnston

Mar 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Leslie Johnston is director of digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives.

Information Access Seminar: Ron Day

Apr 23, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Post-Covid Planning

Apr 30, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Previous Events

Data Science Fall 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 17, 2020, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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.

Cybersecurity Fall 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 9, 2020, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects.

Networked Information Landscape Survey and Prospect, 2020–2021

Dec 4, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Giving Tuesday

Dec 1 2020 - All-day event

Give to support the I School’s Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging efforts.

Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan 1945-1952

Book Talk: Ideology and Libraries

Nov 20, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)

Digital Privacy Training

Nov 13, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Privacy-protection measures from a project training librarians as community privacy advocates.

Backlash: Defiance, Human Rights, and the Politics of Shame

Nov 12, 2020, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

New research shows that “naming and shaming” can be counterproductive and even dangerous.

CLTC 2020 Research Exchange, Day 2: Protecting and Securing a More Inclusive Society Online

Nov 12, 2020, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

How can technology be designed and deployed to make cybersecurity more accessible to underserved populations?

Facebook: Integrating Research into Real-World Policy

Nov 6, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Elaine Sedenberg leads global research and academic engagement for Facebook’s Privacy and Data Policy team.

Selling the Value of Data-centric Solutions

Nov 5, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Industry-specific Databricks case studies and an introduction to selling the value of data-centric solutions.

In Conversation with Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning, Salesforce

Nov 4, 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Peter Schwartz is one of the world’s most experienced, insightful, and entertaining analysts of the digital revolution.

Libraries and Campus IT: Collaborations with a Purpose

Oct 30, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Salwa Ismail is associate university librarian for digital initiatives and information technology and associate CIO for UC Berkeley Library.

AI Race(s) to the Bottom?

Oct 27, 2020, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

AI policy experts discuss the surprising ways that industries are approaching AI development more cautiously and cooperatively.

The Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative (SNAC): What, Who, and How

Oct 23, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An overview of the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative, its past, and its future.

What’s at Stake in Digital Fragmentation?

Oct 22, 2020, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

A conversation with Josh Kallmer, head of global public policy and government relations at Zoom

InfoCamp 2020

Oct 17, 2020, 9:30 am to Oct 18, 2020, 1:30 pm

The 11th annual InfoCamp is themed around living through a unique time in history. The two-day event, led by IMSA, features an ideathon and a speaker series. The event is free and open to everyone in the information community.

The Re-emergence of Scientific Nationalism, The Growth of Supra-Institutional Collaborations, and Implications for Scholarly Communication: Conflicting Trends

Oct 16, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm