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Events

Upcoming events

Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm PDT

Rob Voigt is a computational sociolinguist who applies contemporary natural-language processing methods to questions about the linguistic mechanisms of the social world.

Friday, October 30, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Cultural Analytics Series highlights data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena. 

Friday, October 30, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Mads Rosendahl Thomsen.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

In the United States, the census is democracy’s data. These data make politics — and politics make these data. In this talk, danah boyd discusses what it takes to make democracy’s data — and what those who care about data and democracy should understand about the complexities of making high-stakes data.

Monday, November 9, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Cultural Analytics Series highlights data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena. 

Monday, November 9, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speakers Meredith Martin and Wouter Haverals.

Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Stef Hutka draws on decades of lessons from human factors, HCI, cognitive science, and systems thinking to help you automate with intention: setting deliberate direction, sequencing rollout, and making grounded day-to-day decisions.

Thursday, December 10, 2026, 4:00 pm - 6:00 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, September 30, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Friday, September 30, 2022, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

We are awash in disinformation of lies, conspiracies, and now a new form of manipulated media — so-called deepfakes. Hany Farid explains how deepfakes are created and how to tell truth from fiction.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.

Monday, September 26, 2022, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PDT

How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?

Friday, September 23, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Chris Freeland is director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive.

Friday, September 23, 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am PDT

How conceptions of justice, especially restorative justice, can drive the structures and practices of content governance.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

Behind the census’s neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories — you just have to know how to read them.

Friday, September 16, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short research presentations from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Siddharth Adelkar, Sarah Barrington, and Ameya Naik.

Friday, September 9, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Friday, September 9, 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am PDT

The problems, potentials, and pitfalls of emphasizing justice in content governance systems, with Anna Lauren Hoffman and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg.

Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

Open to all MICS students and alumni.  

Friday, August 26, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Thursday, August 11, 2022, 5:00 pm - 8:00 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.

Sunday, August 7, 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Catch-up with old friends and network with new ones at Berkeley's newest downtown hotel.

Thursday, August 4, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

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

Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 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.

Monday, July 25, 2022, 12:01 am, – Sunday, July 31, 2022, 11:59 pm

A fun run/walk/roll for the I School community. Proceeds benefit diversity & inclusion fellowships.

Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Celebrate our student and alumni mentors.

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Zeashan Pappa discusses Databricks Unity Catalog and data governance in the lakehouse architecture.