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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, March 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Howard Besser founded New York University’s MA program in moving image archiving and preservation and is one of the Library of Congress’s “Pioneers of Digital Preservation”.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT, – Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT

Support the I School during Berkeley’s annual fundraising blitz.

Friday, March 14, 2025, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan explains how AI policies that centered the public’s rights and safety can build a digital future that supports democratic values and democratic institutions.

Friday, March 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

David S. H. Rosenthal was the chief scientist and founder of Stanford’s LOCKSS program, aimed at long-term preservation of the web published materials.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

A panel of recent public servants provides a behind-the-scenes look at their work in Washington.

Friday, March 21, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

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.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

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, April 24, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

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.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

Honor the class of 2025 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Previous events

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Zeashan Pappa discusses Databricks Unity Catalog and data governance in the lakehouse architecture.

Monday, May 16, 2022, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2022 with keynote speaker Timnit Gebru, student speakers, and student awards.

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

Adjunct professor Geoffrey Nunberg passed away on August 11, 2020. He was a dear colleague, teacher, mentor, and friend — brilliant, generous, thoughtful, witty, and kind. He is deeply missed. Join us online for a tribute to his life.

Friday, April 29, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Danielle Cooper discusses Ithaka S+R’s research on scholarly information and technology practices that foster successful data sharing in data communities.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

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.

Friday, April 22, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Olivier Le Deuff and Rayya Roumanos are professors at Bordeaux Montaigne University visting UC Berkeley.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

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.

Friday, April 15, 2022, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research.

Friday, April 15, 2022, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm PDT

Faculty, administrators, students, and activists explore the roles of surveillance and policing in the classroom, on campus, and in the community.

Thursday, April 14, 2022, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

A panel of experts analyze a series of artificial intelligence controversies, including discrimination lawsuits, facial-recognition legislation, emotional manipulation, illegal electioneering, vaccine disinformation, environmental degradation, and even genocide.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Friday, April 8, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Roger Schonfeld reviews recent concerns about research misconduct, publishing fraud, and misinformation and discusses potential policy responses.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

How do we know whether AI is treating us fairly and whether its assessments are objective?

Friday, April 1, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Wayne de Fremery of Sogang University in South Korea develops new technologies for investigating Korean literature and documentary traditions.

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Srijith Rajamohan walks through the foundations of scalable machine learning, from data provenance to model deployment and monitoring.

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

The rapid evolution of data scraping technologies is forcing us to reconsider some evergreen questions.

Friday, March 18, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How would information studies and information services benefit from drawing more on the humanities?

Friday, March 11, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

How can or should research universities support data science tools and techniques as a research support service, alongside research data management and curation?

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 9:00 pm PST, – Thursday, March 10, 2022, 9:00 pm PST

24-hour fundraising drive