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102nd Birthday Celebration: a Virtual Celebration of Women Leaders Past, Present, and Future

Sep 25, 2020, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Join us to celebrate the history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Continuity of the Research Enterprise During the Pandemic

Oct 2, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: An Automated Pipeline for Narrative Framework Discovery on COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories

Oct 9, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Understanding the ‘Splinternet’

Oct 16, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation hides the uncomfortable truth: the Internet has always been affected by political realities. Our measurements reveal a multi-polar Internet.

Information Access Seminar: Daniel Pitti

Oct 23, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar: Salwa Ismail

Oct 30, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Salwa Ismail is associate university librarian for digital initiatives and information technology and associate CIO for UC Berkeley Library.

Information Access Seminar: Elaine Sedenberg

Nov 6, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)

Informaton Access Seminar: Howard Besser

Nov 13, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cybersecurity Fall 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 9, 2020, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects.

Data Science Fall 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 17, 2020, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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.

Previous Events

A Conversation on Big Data, Surveillance, and Policing

Mar 8, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Catherine Crump & Andrew Guthrie Ferguson discuss issues related to surveillance, policing, and civil liberties.

Big Give

Mar 7, 2018, 9:00 pm to Mar 8, 2018, 9:00 pm

Seize the moment during Big Give, Berkeley’s annual fundraising event.

Self-Disclosure and Response Behaviors in Socially Stigmatized Contexts on Social Media

Mar 7, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How can social media platforms better foster well-being when people experience distress and stigma?

WiDS Berkeley: The Global Women in Data Science Conference

Mar 5, 2018, 8:30 am to 5:15 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.

Three Progress Reports

Mar 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Algorithms in Practice: Comparing Web Journalism and Criminal Justice

Feb 26, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Angèle Christin documents a gap between the intended and actual effects of algorithms in two professions.

Migration and the Value of Social Networks

Feb 23, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Joshua Blumenstock uses novel data and methods to understand the economic lives of the poor.

Looking Around, Rather Than Ahead: Design at the Periphery of Contemporary High Tech Development

Feb 21, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How technology design can help us understand different social phenomena.

Study of Private Sector Research and Data Sharing Practices

Feb 16, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Preliminary research results about companies’s internal research practices in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics.

Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/zoCDWPuiRuA

Design Workshop: Designing for Inclusivity in Tech

Feb 10, 2018, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm

A design workshop for I School students on diversity and inclusion in the tech field.

Information and Embodiment

Feb 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Issues and Opportunities Facing the School of Information

Feb 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Dean Saxenian will comment on some of the challenges and opportunities facing the campus and the School.

“Does This Vehicle Belong to You?” Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations

Jan 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

A linguistic analysis of policy body-camera data from traffic stops reveals race-based differences. How can the findings improve police-community relations?

Documenting the 99%

Jan 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Wayne de Fremery develops new technologies for investigating Korean literature and documentary traditions

South Bay Community Meet-Up

Jan 23, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Meet & mingle with other alumni, students, faculty, and staff.

School of Information 2018 Winter Commencement

Jan 21, 2018, 2:00 pm

Honor summer and fall I School graduates with keynote speaker, student speaker, and presentation of the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Making Web Archiving Work for Streaming Media: Archiving the Websites of Contemporary Young Composers

Jan 19, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Howard Besser is a professor of cinema studies and senior scientist for digital initiatives at New York University.

Embeddings for Everything: Search in the Neural Network Era

Jan 17, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dan Gillick proposes a new kind of internet search engine based on neural networks.

Persistent Bias Among Local Election Officials

Jan 17, 2018, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm

An audit study of the 2016 election confirms ethnic bias by local election officials.

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 21, 2017, 5:00 pm to 8:00 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.

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