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Events

Upcoming Events

Clifford Lynch
Introducing the “Age of Algorithms”
Aug 25, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Clifford Lynch introduces the “age of algorithms” and suggests opportunities for future research.
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Data Science Capstone Project Showcase
Aug 28, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 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.
Hany Farid
Reining in Online Abuses
Sep 5, 2017, 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Online platforms today are being used in deplorably diverse ways. How can technology companies allow the free flow of ideas while reining in abuses?
Stephen Comstock
Creating a Culture of Digital Transformation
Sep 11, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm
Stephen Comstock is the CIO of CBS Interactive, the digital division of CBS.
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Towards Inclusive Tech
Sep 14, 2017, 9:00 am to Sep 15, 2017, 5:00 pm
A robust dialogue about how to build more inclusive technical education and workplaces.
Betsy Cooper
Why the Future of Cybersecurity is Closer Than You Think
Sep 15, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:10 pm
Betsy Cooper is the executive director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC).
Richard (Dick) D. Daniels
Where Business Meets Technology: Kaiser Permanente
Sep 18, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm
Richard Daniels is executive vice president and chief information officer for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc.
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A Tribute to Ray Larson’s Academic Life
Sep 22, 2017, 1:10 pm to 5:00 pm
An afternoon of short reports by colleagues and collaborators on the academic work and interests of the late Ray Larson.
Hugo Evans
Where Business Meets Technology: A.T. Kearney
Sep 25, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm
Hugo Evans is VP of Data Science at A.T. Kearney.
Mike Kelly
Where Business Meets Technology: Red Hat
Oct 2, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm
Mike Kelly is the CIO of Red Hat.
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MIDS Meet & Greet
Oct 5, 2017, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Aurangzeb Khan
Developing Leading-Edge Products and Going to Market
Oct 9, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm
Aurangzeb Khan is the CEO of Altia Systems.
Josh Lauer
Knowing, Judging, Calculating: Consumer Credit Surveillance and the Infrastructure of Prediction
Oct 11, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
The untold history of our modern credit scoring system and how it emerged from a 19th-century surveillance infrastructure with huge archives of personal information.
Data Dialogs
Data Dialogs 2017
Oct 23, 2017, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
A one-day conference bringing together data experts from industry, research, and academia.
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Data Science Capstone Project Showcase
Dec 21, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 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.

Previous Events

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Mapping & Visualization of Cultural Data: Native California, Mosques in China, Maritime Buddhism
Apr 21, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Mapping and visualization of transdisciplinary data with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.
Tarleton Gillespie
At Scale and under Pressure: How Social Media Moderate, Choreograph, and Censor Public Discourse
Apr 19, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How should social media police inappropriate speech and anti-social behavior?
Serge Egelman
From Theory to Practice: Empowering Users to Make Privacy Decisions in Mobile Environments
Apr 19, 2017, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm
How can your phone’s operating system help you make smart decisions about personal privacy?
Ron Deibert
Cyber Espionage and Civil Society: A Silent Epidemic
Apr 18, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Ron Deibert is director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and a leading scholar of global security, ICTs, and human rights.
Photo courtesty of Nic McPhee (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/385btc
Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS): a toolkit supporting humanities research
Apr 14, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Berkeley Prosopography Services is an open-source digital toolkit supporting prosopographical research and generating interactive visualizations of the connections that link individuals.
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Data Science and User Research at Facebook: The Two Cultures and the Hacker Way
Apr 12, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Insight from data science director Danny Ferrante and user research manager Umer Farooq.
Nithya Sambasivan
Human Systems as Design Tools in Resource-constrained Environments
Apr 12, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
As technology finds new users in developing countries, alternative interactions emerge that challenge our design assumptions. Nithya Sambasivan presents her research on designing for human collectives in developing countries, with examples from her prior work in India.
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After “Awareness and Action”: From today’s cyberpolicy to tomorrow’s digital environment
Apr 11, 2017, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
A panel discussion about the impact of CSIS’s cybersecurity recommendations in the years to come
Justin Cheng
Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online
Apr 11, 2017, 9:40 am to 11:00 am
New computational methods for understanding and predicting antisocial behavior and misinformation in online communities.
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Social Norms Hackathon
Apr 7, 2017, 4:00 pm to Apr 8, 2017, 3:30 pm
Calling all Berkeley STEM students to promote positive social norms and make a difference for good.
Emanuel Goldberg
Documentary Film: Emanuel Goldberg and the First Search Engine
Apr 7, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Join Michael Buckland for the North American premiere of a documentary about Emanuel Goldberg, the forgotten developer of the first electronic search engine.
Sauvik Das
Social Cybersecurity: Reshaping Security Through An Empirical Understanding of Human Social Behavior
Apr 5, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
In the era of pervasive, connected smart things, cybersecurity depends on the complex social consequences of our security behaviors.
Emily Reid
The Untapped Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline
Apr 4, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Cybersecurity talent is more needed than ever, but the pipeline to fill these jobs is sorely lacking. Emily Reid will illustrate the problem and provide recommended strategies to address the challenge.
Clifford Lynch
Documenting "Algorithms"
Mar 24, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.
Lothar Schubert
GE Digital’s Predix – Big Iron meets Big Data
Mar 22, 2017, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
An introduction to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), with real-life case studies from GE Digital.
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InfoCamp 2017
Mar 18, 2017, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
The unconference for the information community
Ofer Bergman (photo by Ephrat Beloosesky)
The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
Mar 17, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Ofer Bergman is an associate professor in the information science department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Beena Ammanath
Industrial Internet: Big Data and Analytics Driving Big Outcomes
Mar 15, 2017, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Real-world case studies of the benefits of the torrent of data generated by GE’s machines, networks, devices, and data centers.
Wendy Ju
Theatre of the Car
Mar 15, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
The advent of autonomous vehicles is exciting and alarming. Their success will depend on the driver-vehicle interaction.
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New Developments in Research IT Services
Mar 10, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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