Events

Upcoming Events

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yonatan Belinkov

Jan 31, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Yonatan Belinkov is a postdoc at Harvard, where he works on language representations in neural networks.

Genres of Library Service: Economics, Ideology, Technology, etc.

Jan 31, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

“The perverse absent-presence”: Disability and the perception of archival representation

Feb 4, 2020, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Gracen Brilmyer, a 2016 CTSP fellow and MIMS 2016 alum, presents research for their doctoral dissertation.

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Maarten Sap

Feb 7, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Maarten Sap is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington researching natural language processing for social understanding.

The US Census and Social Media Archiving

Feb 7, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Social media users are generally averse to archiving their posts, but what can we learn from the the 1940 US Census?

The Role of Public Libraries, Today and Tomorrow

Feb 14, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne is the assistant city manager of Palo Alto.

Assessing the Reliability of Clothing-Based Forensic Identification

Feb 21, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

A 2009 report was highly critical of many forensic practices. This is the first thorough analysis of the purportedly distinct patterns on the seams of denim pants.

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Marco Ribeiro

Feb 28, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Marco Ribeiro is a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on helping humans interact with machine learning models meaningfully.

WiDS Berkeley

Mar 2, 2020, 8:45 am to 4:30 pm

Women in Data Science is 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.

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

Information Access Seminar: Howard Besser

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

Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing

Mar 12, 2020, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Discover how the Organization for Transformative Works built a model for non-corporate, user-driven, online participatory cultures.

Rob Sanderson (photo: Sarah Waldorf/Getty Center)

Information Access Seminar: Rob Sanderson

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

Rob Sanderson is a semantic architect at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, and a passionate advocate for open culture, linked open data, and the digitization of cultural heritage.

Information Access Seminar: Mary Elings and Christina Fidler, Bancroft Library

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

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yejin Choi

Apr 3, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Yejin Choi is an associate professor at the University of Washington.

Information Access Seminar: Jeff MacKie-Mason

Apr 17, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Jeff MacKie-Mason is the university librarian and chief digital scholarship officer

DataEDGE 2020

Apr 28 2020 - 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

Perhaps We Have Framed the Research Data Management Challenge Incorrectly?

Jan 24, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Syntactic Generalization in Natural Language Inference

Jan 23, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Tal Linzen is an assistant professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University.

How to (Machine) Read a Novel: Modeling Events and Information in Literary Fiction

Jan 14, 2020, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Novels pose unique challenges overlooked by current natural language processing systems.

School of Information Winter 2020 Commencement

Jan 13, 2020, 12:00 pm

Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of capstone awards.

Demographics, Social Networks, and Mobile Phone Usage: Introduction and Take up of Community Cellular Networks in the Philippines

Dec 13, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Developments in Networked Information: Review and Prospects

Dec 6, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yoav Artzi

Dec 6, 2019, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Privacy Engineering Project Showcase

Dec 5, 2019, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Final class projects from Info 290. Introduction to Privacy Engineering.

Cryptography in the Wild

Dec 4, 2019, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

The evolution of cryptography on the Internet, with Nick Sullivan of Cloudflare.

AI & Responsible Design: Perspectives from Practitioners

Nov 25, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How practitioners think about design for algorithmic systems and products.

Two Reports: Deepfakes and Self-Driving Cars

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

Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work

Nov 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Key insights for defending against strategic information operations.

Two Talks: “Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models” and “Probing Neural NLP: Ideas and Problems”

Nov 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Berkeley Natural Language Processing Seminar

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames

Author Conversation on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”

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

Morgan Ames and LA Review of Books editor Michele Pridmore-Brown discuss the legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and our refusal to learn from its failure.