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COVID-19 Surveillance

Apr 10, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan is an associate professor at the School of Information and the associate dean and Head of School

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Creating Informed Responses: Berkeley’s Computing and Data Science In Action

Apr 7, 2020, 10:00 am to 11:30 am

Campuswide online video series

Internet Law and Online Speech: An International Perspective

Apr 6, 2020, 4:10 pm to 6:00 pm

Guest lecture for the course Info 281. Designing Against Hate: An Exploration of Speech and Affordances on Social Media

101 Years of Women

Apr 3, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An informal discussion of women in the history and heritage of the School.

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Making Sense of Data, Social Distancing, and What Lies Ahead

Apr 3, 2020, 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm

Campuswide online video series

Rob Sanderson (photo: Sarah Waldorf/Getty Center)

Tiers of Abstraction and Audience in Cultural Heritage Data Modeling

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

Rob Sanderson is a semantic architect at the J. Paul Getty Trust and a passionate advocate for open culture, linked open data, and the digitization of cultural heritage.

Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing

Mar 12, 2020, 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.

I School students rally for Big Give. (Taken in February 2020)

Big Give 2020

Mar 11, 2020, 9:00 pm to Mar 12, 2020, 9:00 pm

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

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

Archiving the Non-Organizational Born-Digital: The Challenges Posed by Material from Individuals, Communities, Social Movements, and Events

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

How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.

Green NLP

Mar 6, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Roy Schwartz is a research scientist at the Allen institute for AI and at the computer science and engineering department at the University of Washington.

Ph.D. Research Reception

Mar 4, 2020, 4:10 pm to 8:00 pm

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

WiDS Berkeley

Mar 2, 2020, 8:45 am to 4:30 pm

Women in Data Science is 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.

Seminar Project Progress Reports

Feb 28, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

What is Wrong with my Model? Detection and Analysis of Bugs in NLP Models

Feb 28, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Marco Ribeiro is a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on helping humans interact with machine learning models meaningfully.

Repairing Innovation: The Labor of Integrating New Technologies

Feb 24, 2020, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Madeleine Clare Elish uncovers the hidden labor behind automated aviation, driverless cars, small scale agriculture, grocery retail, and emergency healthcare.

Assessing the Reliability of Clothing-Based Forensic Identification

Feb 21, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

A 2009 report was highly critical of many forensic practices. This is the first thorough analysis of the purportedly distinct patterns on the seams of denim pants.

Veridical Data Science

Feb 19, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of statistics and EECS. Her research focuses on practice, algorithm, and theory of statistical machine learning and causal inference.

The Role of Public Libraries, Today and Tomorrow

Feb 14, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne is the assistant city manager of Palo Alto.

Indigenous-led Security and Digital Safety

Feb 11, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Work to develop an indigenous-led security fund in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The US Census and Social Media Archiving

Feb 7, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Social media users are generally averse to archiving their posts, but what can we learn from the the 1940 US Census?

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