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Upcoming Events

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Citizen Clinic Information Session
Aug 28, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Learn how Berkeley students are defending civil society organizations from cyberattacks, disinformation, and online abuse.
Clifford Lynch
Machine Learning, Archives and Special Collections
Sep 6, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
The most significant near-term applications for machine learning in archives and special collections.
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I School Fall 2019 Meet-up: Celebrating Entrepreneurship
Sep 11, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Meet new friends and catch up with old on the rooftop deck of venture capital firm Accel
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The Citizen Clinic
Sep 20, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s Citizen Clinic is the world's first public interest cybersecurity clinic.
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Towards an Artificial Intuition: Conversational Markers of (Anti)Social Dynamics
Sep 23, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
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101st Birthday Celebration
Sep 27, 2019, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 101st birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.
Michael Buckland
This School’s Social Mission: The Early Days
Oct 4, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
This School was founded in 1918 on a strong social agenda; Professor Buckland will review the past 101 years of its mission.
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Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing
Oct 9, 2019, 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.
Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)
Information Access Seminar: Howard Besser
Oct 11, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Aditya Parameswaran
Information Access Seminar: Aditya Parameswaran
Oct 18, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Clifford Lynch
Information Access Seminar: Clifford Lynch
Dec 6, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Previous Events

Dr. Andrew L. Brooks
Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security
Apr 17, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Dr. Andrew L. Brooks is the Chief Data Scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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In DOCAM’s Footsteps
Apr 12, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm
North American premiere of In DOCAM’s Footsteps, a new documentary film with scenes shot in South Hall.
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Augmented Reality and The Public
Apr 12, 2019, 3:10 pm to 4:00 pm
Instagram filters, Google Map’s live directions, and Pokémon Go demonstrate how augmented reality enhances “real life.”
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Basic Needs, Access, and Marketplace Structures
Apr 5, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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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.
Eric Horvitz
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.
InfoCamp
InfoCamp Berkeley 2019
Mar 16, 2019, 9:00 am to 6:30 pm
The premier student-run conference for the information community.
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
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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
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?
Victoria Coleman
Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development
Mar 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 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.
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Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data
Mar 1, 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.
Rosalie Lack
UCLA Library’s International Partnerships and Projects
Feb 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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?
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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.
Yifan Sun
Optimization for Machine Learning
Feb 14, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How good data models facilitate optimization and generalization in machine learning.
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Ph.D. Research Reception
Feb 13, 2019, 4:10 pm to 8:00 pm
School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

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