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Upcoming Events

Climate Change and Some Possible Surprises

Jan 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Does Email Suppress Turnout on Election Day? Experimental Evidence from the 2016 General Election

Jan 30, 2019, 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm

Massive impersonal unsolicited email campaigns might actually backfire.

The Times They Are A-Changin’: The Influence of Scandal and Experience on Users’ Attitudes to Social Media Data Control

Feb 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Has widespread news of abuse made people more protective of their personal data?

Towards an Equitable Data-Driven Urbanism: Transforming Urban Theory and Practice via Data Science

Feb 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Ph.D. Research Reception

Feb 13, 2019, 4:10 pm to 8:00 pm

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

Optimization for Machine Learning

Feb 14, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How good data models facilitate optimization and generalization in machine learning.

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Feb 20, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The One Laptop per Child project failed. So why do the same utopian visions that inspired it still motivate other projects to “disrupt” education and development?

Information Access Seminar: Rosalie Lack

Feb 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data

Mar 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Accuracy, Fairness, and Limits of Predicting Recidivism

Mar 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

When algorithms are used for predicting recidivism, do they make the criminal justice system more fair and accurate, or do they perpetuate racial bias?

Community-Owned Data Publishing: California Digital Library’s new partnership with Dryad

Mar 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar: Daniel Kluttz

Mar 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

DataEDGE 2019

Apr 23 2019 - All-day event

Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.

Previous Events

School of Information 2019 Winter Commencement

Jan 12, 2019, 2:00 pm

Honor summer and fall I School graduates with keynote speaker, student speaker, and presentation of the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Data Science Fall 2018 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 17, 2018, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select two outstanding projects for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory

Dec 12, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jen King explores how people think about information privacy in online settings.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 5, 2018, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Natural Language Processing Poster Presentations

Dec 4, 2018, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Join us for the final project poster presentations from the course Info 259. Natural Language Processing.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 3, 2018, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Developments in 2018 and Prospects for 2019 and Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing

Nov 30, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Nov 29, 2018, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

The impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.

Machine Learning in Cybersecurity: Fact, Fantasy, and Moving Forward

Nov 29, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Dan Lieberman, senior associate of advanced analytics at Booz Allen, discusses what machine learning is, why it is particularly challenging in cybersecurity, and how to design machine learning applications that will have the biggest impact for cyber applications.

Cancelled: Women in Tech: The Future of AI

Nov 16, 2018, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

This event has been cancelled due to the Northern California wildfires. The event will be rescheuled for a future date.

Digital Switzerlands

Nov 15, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Dinner & Data: Data, Technology, and Governance for Public Good

Nov 14, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Kristie Canegallo, former Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation; DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist; and Nicole Wong, former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Data in the Higher Education Curriculum

Nov 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Dinner & Data: Privacy, Security, and Fairness: the Challenges of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Nov 7, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Colleen Chien, former White House Senior Advisor on Intellectual Property and Innovation, and Terah Lyons, former Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Denver Data Science Meet-up

Nov 5, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

MIDS students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.

Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing and Blockchain: What's Not To Like?

Nov 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.

Detecting Discrimination: What Eddie Murphy Teaches Us about Theory and Method

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Issa Kohler-Hausmann studies the methodological and theoretical issues in stating and proving discrimination claims.

Using Machine Learning to Understand Health Care Systems

Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how machine learning can improve our understanding of the health system itself.

Citizen Clinic Info Session

Oct 30, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Learn how the Citizen Clinic provides hands-on experience developing and implementing cybersecurity practices for politically-vulnerable organizations.

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