Events

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

Stewardship and preservation issues related to social media.

David Rand is a leading expert in the psychology of misinformation. Rand is a systems biologist and psychologist and runs MIT’s Human Cooperation Lab.

The international security challenges posed by emerging technologies and how to best to govern them.

Your gifts to the I School and the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity will support diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice (DEIBJ) in tech.

Jessica Hullman is a leading expert in information visualization and uncertainty. Hullman is an information scientist and computer scientist by training, and an associate professor at Northwestern University.

Why is there a new US Space Force, and what is the role of space in military and strategic competition with major powers?

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

Valentin Hofmann researches the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and computational social science, with specific interests in tokenization, socially and temporally aware NLP systems, and computational models of political ideology.

Legal scholar Katerina Linos discusses how government and international organization actions can create information vacuums, creating space for misinformation to spread among migrants and refugees.

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.