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Events

Upcoming events

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Support the I School during Berkeley’s annual fundraising blitz.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

James Abello Monedero & Haoyang Zhang present Graph Cities, a novel visualization for exploring complex large-scale networks.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Peter Broadwell explores new opportunities for using deep neural models for computational analyses of theater and other performing arts.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Peter Leonard itemizes three barriers that hinder analysis of film and television.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 11:00 am - 11:30 am

While multimodal large language models (LLMs) excel at dialogue, whether they can adequately parse the structure of conversation — conversational roles and threading — remains underexplored.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lauren Tilton’s research applies digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Taylor Arnold uses large-scale computational methods to analyze how television production practices and narrative strategies intersect with industry changes and cultural contexts.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 9:30 am - 10:00 am

Svenja Guhr’s research uses computational methods to model suspense in American and British short fiction.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 10:00 am - 10:30 am

Ongoing work on how satire is communicated in both text and images in the satirical journal Corsaren using image and text embeddings.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 11:00 am - 11:30 am

Ongoing work on benchmarking vision-language models and using them and object detection for art historical research into canonicity and national romanticism styles in Northern Europe.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Noah Askin is a computational social scientist and sociologist who studies the creative process, its outcomes, and the forces that influence it.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Noah Askin is a computational social scientist and sociologist who studies the creative process, its outcomes, and the forces that influence it.

Friday, March 20, 2026, 9:30 am - 10:00 am

Peter Forberg is a Ph.D. student in sociology who studies technology, political movements, governance, and ethnography. 

Friday, March 20, 2026, 10:00 am - 10:30 am

Naitian Zhou is a Ph.D. stu­dent whose re­search cen­ters on de­vel­op­ing com­pu­ta­tional meth­ods to un­der­stand mean­ing em­bed­ded in style.

Friday, March 20, 2026, 11:00 am - 11:30 am

David Bamman’s research focuses on natural language processing and cultural analytics, applying NLP and AI to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. 

Friday, March 20, 2026, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Miguel Escobar Varela studies changes in Southeast Asian cultural heritage, combining fieldwork with computational methods.

Friday, March 20, 2026, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Miguel Escobar Varela studies changes in Southeast Asian cultural heritage, combining fieldwork with computational methods.

Friday, April 10, 2026, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Large language models can make writing mind-numbingly efficient — but the point of writing with AI should be to write what we couldn’t have written alone (without generating bland, derivative “slop”).

Friday, April 10, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Kyle Booten.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

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

Thursday, April 23, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

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.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Honor the class of 2026 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Wednesday, August 5, 2026, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

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

Thursday, August 13, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

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.

Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 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.

Thursday, December 17, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 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.

Previous events

Friday, April 15, 2022, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research.

Friday, April 15, 2022, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm PDT

Faculty, administrators, students, and activists explore the roles of surveillance and policing in the classroom, on campus, and in the community.

Thursday, April 14, 2022, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

A panel of experts analyze a series of artificial intelligence controversies, including discrimination lawsuits, facial-recognition legislation, emotional manipulation, illegal electioneering, vaccine disinformation, environmental degradation, and even genocide.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

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

Friday, April 8, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Roger Schonfeld reviews recent concerns about research misconduct, publishing fraud, and misinformation and discusses potential policy responses.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

How do we know whether AI is treating us fairly and whether its assessments are objective?

Friday, April 1, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Wayne de Fremery of Sogang University in South Korea develops new technologies for investigating Korean literature and documentary traditions.

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Srijith Rajamohan walks through the foundations of scalable machine learning, from data provenance to model deployment and monitoring.

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

The rapid evolution of data scraping technologies is forcing us to reconsider some evergreen questions.

Friday, March 18, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How would information studies and information services benefit from drawing more on the humanities?

Friday, March 11, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

How can or should research universities support data science tools and techniques as a research support service, alongside research data management and curation?

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 9:00 pm PST, – Thursday, March 10, 2022, 9:00 pm PST

24-hour fundraising drive

Monday, March 7, 2022, 12:00 am, – Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 12:00 am

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

Friday, March 4, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Chris Hoofnagle explains the genesis of quantum information science and considers how policymakers might anticipate the benefits and risks of quantum technologies.

Friday, February 25, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

A new report demystifies the research information management landscape with a first-of-its-kind documentation of US research university practices.

Friday, February 18, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, February 11, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Friday, February 4, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Daniella Lowenberg of the California Digital Library discusses integrity and ethical issues in data publishing and community-built resources.

Friday, January 28, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Relevance has long been considered central to information science. A deeper analysis leads to a narrower, more precise definition.

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Chris Hoshino-Fish introduces Delta Live Tables, an optimized system for data management in the cloud.