Events

Upcoming Events

AI in the Open World: Technology & Responsibility

Mar 20, 2019, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Eric Horvitz is a technical fellow and director at Microsoft Research.

AI, Professionals, and Professional Work: The Practice of Law with Automated Decision Support Technologies

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

How technical systems employing algorithms are shaping and displacing human decision-making.

Basic Needs, Access, and Marketplace Structures

Apr 5, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar: Jeff MacKie-Mason

Apr 19, 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.

Women Leaders in Tech: Shattering Ceilings and Scaling Cliffs

Apr 24, 2019, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

A panel of women in senior leadership roles in the technology sector discuss their experiences in an industry that continues to be largely male-dominated.

Information Access Seminar: AnnaLee Saxenian

Apr 26, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar: Niloufar Salehi

May 3, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

MIMS Final Project Showcase

May 16, 2019, 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Graduating master’s 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 2019 Commencement

May 19, 2019, 10:00 am

Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker Geoff Nunberg, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Awards.

Previous Events

InfoCamp Berkeley 2019

Mar 16, 2019, 9:00 am to 6:30 pm

The premier student-run conference for the information community.

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

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

Big Give

Mar 13, 2019, 9:00 pm to Mar 14, 2019, 9:00 pm

Seize the moment during Big Give, Berkeley’s annual fundraising event.

Shoshanna Zuboff (photo by Sascha Pflaeging)

How We Fight Surveillance Capitalism

Mar 12, 2019, 2:40 pm to 4:30 pm

Workshop with Professor Shoshana Zuboff

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?

Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development

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

WiDS Berkeley

Mar 4, 2019, 12:10 pm to 4:15 pm

A one-day technical conference bringing together data scientists and professionals from around the globe to discuss the latest research and applications of data science.

Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data

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

Reading for Bias: Computational Semantics and the Character of Racial Discourse

Feb 27, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Machine learning algorithms are not neutral observers of the world, but see what they are trained to see.

UCLA Library’s International Partnerships and Projects

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

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?

What’s New with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?

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

Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.