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Dinner & Data: Open Data, Open Government, and Social Impact

Oct 24, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Alan Steremberg (Weather Underground co-founder and former Presidential Innovation Fellow) and Corinna Zarek (Mozilla Senior Tech Policy Fellow and former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer). Advance registration required.

Digital Security Crash Course

Oct 25, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Hands-on digital security training for people at all levels of expertise.

Florilegia: Organizing Scholarly Annotations in PDFs

Oct 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

ECAI Workshop: Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage, and Opportunities of New Technology

Oct 27 2018 - All-day event

Equitable Algorithms: A Social Welfare Function Approach

Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how and why algorithms can be designed for fairness.

GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.

Detecting Discrimination: What Eddie Murphy Teaches Us about Theory and Method

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Issa Kohler-Hausmann studies the methodological and theoretical issues in stating and proving discrimination claims.

Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing and Blockchain: What's Not To Like?

Nov 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Denver Data Science Meet-up

Nov 5, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

MIDS students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.

Dinner & Data: Privacy, Security, and Fairness: the Challenges of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Nov 7, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Colleen Chien, former White House Senior Advisor on Intellectual Property and Innovation, and Terah Lyons, former Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Data in the Higher Education Curriculum

Nov 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Dinner & Data: Data, Technology, and Governance for Public Good

Nov 14, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Kristie Canegallo, former Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation; DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist; and Nicole Wong, former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Women in Tech: The Future of AI

Nov 16, 2018, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

School of Information 2019 Winter Commencement

Jan 12, 2019, 2:00 pm

Honor summer and fall I School graduates with keynote speaker, student speaker, and presentation of the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

DataEDGE 2019

Apr 23 2019 - All-day event

Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.

Previous Events

"...Relevant, usable, and accessible to all...". On Documentation Ideals for Extra-Academic Research, the Case of Development-led Archaeology

Apr 10, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Music Search and Recommendation from Millions of Songs

Apr 8, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

With millions of songs available through the Internet, recommendation algorithms are a must. Dr. Gert Lanckriet discusses the state of the art in automated music analysis and the potential for context-aware recommendations.

Privacy in the World of Analytics, with Emphasis on the Higher Education Environment

Apr 3, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Using Conversational Media Objects, Social Photography, and Community to Understand and Organize Modern Information Systems

Apr 1, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

David Ayman Shamma is a senior research scientist at Yahoo Labs, where he leads the HCI research group and is the scientific liaison to Flickr. His research investigates social multimedia computing and creativity.

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity Open House

Mar 31, 2015, 1:00 pm

There is a Thin Line Between Speaking 30 Languages and Gibberish: Semantic and Multilingual Access in Europeana

Mar 20, 2015, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Visual Language of Comics: What comics can tell us about the mind (and vice versa)

Mar 18, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Neil Cohn is internationally recognized for his research on the overlap of sequential images and language in cognition.

InfoCamp Berkeley 2015

Mar 14, 2015, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

InfoCamp is an “unconference” — an intimate seminar-style event for anybody interested in information-related topics, including user experience, data science, information architecture, interaction design, informatics, and information and communication technologies for development.

Making the Most of a Pile of DiRT (Digital Research Tools)

Mar 13, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

People-centric Natural Language Processing

Mar 11, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Machine learning and natural language processing provide a framework for extracting meaning from text — but what can they tell us about the people in those texts?

Who owns your Facebook content?

Mar 6, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Dissertation Talk: Where in the World is the Internet? Locating Political Power in Internet Infrastructure

Mar 4, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Cultural Data in the Age of Experience

Feb 27, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Internet As Psychology Lab

Feb 25, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Alternative Strategic Future for iSchools

Feb 20, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Synthesizing Knowledge from Disagreement

Feb 18, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dr. Jodi Schneider is a postdoctoral fellow at the National French Computer Science Research Institute.

Intellectual Property and Other Information Policies in a Small Country

Feb 13, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Supply Chains, their Graph Structure, and their Role in Information Industries

Feb 11, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

“The Hsing Yun Wen Ji Application Project” and “Privacy and Data Protection by Design”

Feb 6, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

I’m In the Database (But Nobody Knows)

Feb 4, 2015, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

“Your data will only be used in aggregated form.” — what does this statement mean, and why is it so often included in privacy policies? And does this practice actually protect your privacy?

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