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Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 1

Apr 12, 2021, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm

Understanding the recent resistance to facial recognition technologies, to put this moment in conversation and context.

Local to Global: E-Reserves at UC Berkeley

Apr 9, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How Berkeley’s University Library rose to the challenge of providing course materials to all students in a fully virtual global environment.

Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice

Apr 7, 2021, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Richmond Wong presents his dissertation researchon the relationships between design practices and social values.

How to Care About Information

Apr 2, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Ryan Shaw is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I School Faculty Panel: Women in Tech

Mar 23, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

I School faculty members discuss their research and the importance of including the perspective of women and underrepresented minorities at the frontiers of information technology.

Applied Trustworthy Digital Repositories and Risk Assessment

Mar 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Leslie Johnston is director of digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives.

Social Media Is Too Important to Leave Up to the Market

Mar 15, 2021, 10:30 am to 11:30 am

Ethan Zuckerman explores a model for rethinking and rebuilding social media and digital institutions as public goods.

Post-Covid Issues

Mar 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Ph.D. Research Reception, Part 2

Mar 12, 2021, 12:00 pm to 2:30 pm

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

Big Give

Mar 10, 2021, 9:00 pm to Mar 11, 2021, 9:00 pm

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

Ph.D. Research Reception, Part 1

Mar 10, 2021, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

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

WiDS Berkeley: Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley

Mar 8 2021 - All-day event

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Information Seeking Research: A State of the Art

Mar 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Context and Relevance

Feb 26, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

Prediction Games: Using Evidence and Data-based Forecasting to Pique Interest in Complex Topics and Real-world Events

Feb 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Prediction games pit players against one another as they use open data and news stories to forecast the outcome of real-world events.

Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton

Historicizing Information

Feb 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Bloc by Bloc. Image courtesy of Harvard University Press.

Authors Meet Critics: Bloc by Bloc

Feb 11, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Steven Weber puts forward a compelling new model for global organization that integrates modern developments in technology and governance.

The Future of Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale: A Look at MLflow, Delta Lake, and Emerging Tools

Feb 10, 2021, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Jules S. Damji surveys emerging technologies to address the challenges of data at scale

Securing the Digital Supply Chain

Feb 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

David S. H. Rosenthal is the co-founder of the LOCKSS program at Stanford University.

Cash Transfers at Scale

Jan 29, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Cash transfers to people in extreme poverty have become a policy tool of choice; should policy-makers go all the way to Universal Basic Income?

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