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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 106th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Friday, October 4, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.

Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How the economics of trademarks contributed to the spread of modern notions of “information”.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

A community meet-up and happy hour for I School students, alumni, and guests.

Friday, October 18, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Deirdre K. Mulligan served for the past year in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.

Friday, October 25, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

Friday, November 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

Friday, November 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Friday, November 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

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

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

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.

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.

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.

Previous events

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm PDT

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.

Friday, March 19, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Monday, March 15, 2021, 10:30 am - 11:30 am PDT

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

Friday, March 12, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, March 12, 2021, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm PST

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

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 9:00 pm PST, – Thursday, March 11, 2021, 9:00 pm PST

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

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

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

Monday, March 8, 2021, 12:00 am, – Thursday, March 11, 2021, 12:00 am

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

Friday, March 5, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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

Friday, February 26, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

Friday, February 19, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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

Friday, February 12, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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.

Thursday, February 11, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PST

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

Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST

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

Friday, February 5, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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

Friday, January 29, 2021, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PST

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?

Friday, January 29, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Emerging science nationalism and its implications for the research enterprise and the global system of scholarly communication.

Monday, January 25, 2021, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PST

Can widespread misperceptions about others’ beliefs sustain social norms? How do social norms change when new information becomes available?

Friday, January 22, 2021, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PST

How team identity boosts worker engagement in a gig economy.

Friday, January 22, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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.