Events

Upcoming Events

Apr 19, 2024, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Michael Buckland explores the genesis and spread of belief and misbelief.

Parler Games: Folklore, Social Media, and Insurrection

Apr 24, 2024, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm

Timothy Tangherlini uses a computational folkloristic approach to analyze conversations on the social media platform Parler leading up to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Citizen Clinic Pizza Information Session

Apr 24, 2024, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

The Citizen Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

Targeting Humanitarian Aid with Machine Learning and Digital Data

Apr 25, 2024, 3:10 pm to 4:00 pm

Can we combine data from satellites, mobile phones, and financial services providers with machine learning to identify the neediest people and better target humanitarian aid?

Data Science Spring 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 25, 2024, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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.

UC Berkeley AI Policy Research Symposium 2024

Apr 26, 2024, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Learn about cutting-edge AI research and advocacy efforts

Early Thoughts on AI-based Systems and Stewardship of the Evolving Cultural Record

Apr 26, 2024, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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

MIMS 2024 Final Project Showcase

May 9, 2024, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Graduating MIMS students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

School of Information May 2024 Commencement

May 18, 2024, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2024 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Cybersecurity Summer 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Aug 7, 2024, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

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

Previous Events

Reasoning about Social Dynamics in Language

Feb 7, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Maarten Sap is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington researching natural language processing for social understanding.

“The perverse absent-presence”: Disability and the perception of archival representation

Feb 4, 2020, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Gracen Brilmyer, a 2016 CTSP fellow and MIMS 2016 alum, presents research for their doctoral dissertation.

Genres of Library Service: Economics, Ideology, Technology, etc.

Jan 31, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yonatan Belinkov

Jan 31, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Yonatan Belinkov is a postdoc at Harvard, where he works on language representations in neural networks.

Perhaps We Have Framed the Research Data Management Challenge Incorrectly?

Jan 24, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Syntactic Generalization in Natural Language Inference

Jan 23, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Tal Linzen is an assistant professor of cognitive science at Johns Hopkins University.

How to (Machine) Read a Novel: Modeling Events and Information in Literary Fiction

Jan 14, 2020, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Novels pose unique challenges overlooked by current natural language processing systems.

School of Information Winter 2020 Commencement

Jan 13, 2020, 12:00 pm

Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of capstone awards.

Demographics, Social Networks, and Mobile Phone Usage: Introduction and Take up of Community Cellular Networks in the Philippines

Dec 13, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Developments in Networked Information: Review and Prospects

Dec 6, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yoav Artzi

Dec 6, 2019, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Privacy Engineering Project Showcase

Dec 5, 2019, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Final class projects from Info 290. Introduction to Privacy Engineering.

Cryptography in the Wild

Dec 4, 2019, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

The evolution of cryptography on the Internet, with Nick Sullivan of Cloudflare.

AI & Responsible Design: Perspectives from Practitioners

Nov 25, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How practitioners think about design for algorithmic systems and products.

Two Reports: Deepfakes and Self-Driving Cars

Nov 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work

Nov 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Key insights for defending against strategic information operations.

Two Talks: “Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models” and “Probing Neural NLP: Ideas and Problems”

Nov 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Berkeley Natural Language Processing Seminar

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames

Author Conversation on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”

Nov 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Morgan Ames and LA Review of Books editor Michele Pridmore-Brown discuss the legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and our refusal to learn from its failure.

Denver Meet-up

Nov 13, 2019, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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

Cybersecurity 2024

Nov 12, 2019, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Steven Weber and Amit Elazari forecast cybersecurity in 2024 to illuminate what’s at stake today. (A “Discover Cal” lecture.)

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