Events

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 104th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) promise radical new forms of collective organization and ownership. But can they deliver?

Jeff Hancock is a leading expert on technology’s role in deception and trust. Hancock is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in Communication.

Short reports from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Sarah Barrington, Ameya Naik, and Siddharth Adelkar

Jeff Wu is a research engineer at OpenAI working on language modeling (e.g. GPT-2) and alignment (InstructGPT).

A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.

Crowdsourcing data has recently become mostly unusable. Catherine Marshall uncovers what’s happening.

Alex Tamkin is a Ph.D. student researching self-supervised learning, especially in multimodal and domain-general settings.

How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

The Citizen Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

Michael Buckland & Wayne de Fremery propose context-based changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery.

How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing

We are awash in disinformation of lies, conspiracies, and now a new form of manipulated media — so-called deepfakes. Hany Farid explains how deepfakes are created and how to tell truth from fiction.

Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.

How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?

Chris Freeland is director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive.

How conceptions of justice, especially restorative justice, can drive the structures and practices of content governance.

Behind the census’s neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories — you just have to know how to read them.