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Upcoming Events

Morgan G. Ames
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?
Rosalie Lack
UCLA Library’s International Partnerships and Projects
Feb 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Hoyt Long
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.
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Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data
Mar 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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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.
Victoria Coleman
Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development
Mar 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Hany Farid
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?
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
University of California - California Digital Library
Community-Owned Data Publishing: California Digital Library’s new partnership with Dryad
Mar 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
InfoCamp
InfoCamp Berkeley 2019
Mar 16, 2019, 9:00 am to 6:30 pm
The premier student-run conference for the information community.
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Information Access Seminar: Daniel Kluttz
Mar 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
Information Access Seminar: Jeff MacKie-Mason
Apr 19, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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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.
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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.
AnnaLee Saxenian
Information Access Seminar: AnnaLee Saxenian
Apr 26, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Niloufar Salehi
Information Access Seminar: Niloufar Salehi
May 3, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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School of Information May 2019 Commencement
May 19, 2019, 10:00 am
Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Awards.

Previous Events

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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.
Cathryn Carson
Data in the Higher Education Curriculum
Nov 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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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.
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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.
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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
Jeff Jonas
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.
Issa Kohler-Hausmann
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.
Sendhil Mullainathan
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
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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ECAI Workshop: Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage, and Opportunities of New Technology
Oct 27 2018 - All-day event
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Florilegia: Organizing Scholarly Annotations in PDFs
Oct 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
CTSP: Center for Technology, Society, and Policy
Digital Security Crash Course
Oct 25, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Hands-on digital security training for people at all levels of expertise.
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Dinner & Data: Open Data, Open Government, and Social Impact
Oct 24, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
A seminar-style conversation led by Alan Steremberg (Weather Underground co-founder and former Presidential Innovation Fellow) and Corinna Zarek (Mozilla Senior Tech Policy Fellow and former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer). Advance registration required.
Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)
Digital Privacy for Librarians (and Others)
Oct 19, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How librarians can support digital privacy practices in their communities.
Aditya Parameswaran
Democratizing Data Science
Oct 17, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Making it easy for individuals and teams to manage, analyze, and draw insights from large datasets.
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“I don't want to be a publisher!” Regulating liability for the sticky parts: An exploration of CDA Section 230, sex work, and user content
Oct 12, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Threats to information sharing, users, and free speech
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Foreshadow: Breaking the Virtual Memory Abstraction with Transient Out-of-Order Execution
Oct 10, 2018, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Ofir Weisse explains how the Foreshadow attack dismantles Intel's SGX security — previously considered the most secure feature of Intel chips — and also bypasses virtual machine isolation between users in the cloud.
Stephen Comstock
Creating a Culture of Digital Transformation
Oct 8, 2018, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm
Stephen Comstock is the CIO of CBS Interactive, the digital division of CBS.
Zachary Bleemer
Analyzing Our Past
Oct 5, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Zachary Bleemer is director of the University of California ClioMetric History Project.
CTSP: Center for Technology, Society, and Policy
Social Impact Un-Pitch Day
Oct 4, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Join CTSP and IMSA to brainstorm ideas for projects that address the challenges of technology, society, and policy.

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