The School of Information is UC Berkeley’s newest professional school. Located in the center of campus, the I School is a graduate research and education community committed to expanding access to information and to improving its usability, reliability, and credibility while preserving security and privacy.
The Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) is an online degree preparing data science professionals to solve real-world problems. The 5th Year MIDS program is a streamlined path to a MIDS degree for Cal undergraduates.
The School of Information's courses bridge the disciplines of information and computer science, design, social sciences, management, law, and policy. We welcome interest in our graduate-level Information classes from current UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students and community members. More information about signing up for classes.
I School graduate students and alumni have expertise in data science, user experience design & research, product management, engineering, information policy, cybersecurity, and more — learn more about hiring I School students and alumni.
Venture capital investors push nascent tech firms to scale as quickly as possible to inflate the value of their asset. The gains generated by tech startups are funneled into the pockets of a small cadre of elite investors and entrepreneurs, leaving workers and users to bear many of the costs and risks.
Nicole S. Kuhn uses community-engaged research to understand how American Indian and Alaska Native communities leverage social media to deliver health information.
The death by suicide of disabled Black teen Sewell Setzer III and his family’s lawsuit against chatbot company Character.AI have opened up renewed debate and uncertainty about AI safety.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 4:00 pm
- 6:30 pm PST
Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.
Cybersecurity Clinic students share their experiences supporting environmental justice, trans community support, reproductive rights, and disability justice organizations.
Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm
- 7:00 pm PST
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.
A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.
Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 2:15 pm
- 3:25 pm PST
Biobanks and electronic health records systems are increasingly used to train and develop machine learning and artificial intelligence models, raising concerns for social equity and justice.
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 5:00 pm
- 6:00 pm PST
The UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.
Professor Deirdre K. Mulligan was principal deputy U.S. chief technology officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO) in the Biden-Harris Administration.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12:10 pm
- 1:30 pm PDT
Who should make decisions about ethical and responsible technology deployments? And how do impacted communities make political claims over data technologies?
Deirdre K. Mulligan served in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy for the past 18 months as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.
The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.
In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 106th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 4:10 pm
- 6:00 pm PDT
When identifying organ transplant recipients — and in other matching problems — is it better to find a match more quickly, or more slowly and carefully? Afshin Nikzad’s research weighs the tradeoffs in different circumstances.