Events

Upcoming events

Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 106th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Letters from Tokyo, 1950–1956

Friday, October 4, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.

Branding Information

Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How the economics of trademarks contributed to the spread of modern notions of “information”.

Three I School students chatting, holding drinks. (Photo by Hewitt Photography for Berkeley I School, 2019)

I School Community Meet-Up

Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

A community meet-up and happy hour for I School students, alumni, and guests.

Experiences at the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Friday, October 18, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Deirdre K. Mulligan served for the past year in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.

AI and Stewardship

Friday, October 25, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Competition “Inside” the Cloud?

Friday, November 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

AI and Open Access

Friday, November 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Information Access Seminar: Catherine Marshall

Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Information Access Seminar: Suzanne Wones, University Librarian

Friday, November 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Cybersecurity Fall 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 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.

Data Science Fall 2024 Capstone Project Showcase for 5th Year MIDS Students

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

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

Data Science Fall 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 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.

An AI generated image of double doors opening to reveal blue and clouds, with light pouring in.

Berkeley Center for New Media 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

AI generated image of a robot sitting at a desk writing

Data Are Made, Not Found

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.

Previous events

Photo courtesy of Ecole polytechnique / Paris / France (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/24UuxVw

Cybersecurity Spring 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, April 15, 2020, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects.

COVID-19 Surveillance

Friday, April 10, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan is an associate professor at the School of Information and the associate dean and Head of School

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Creating Informed Responses: Berkeley’s Computing and Data Science In Action

Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Campuswide online video series

Internet Law and Online Speech: An International Perspective

Monday, April 6, 2020, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Guest lecture for the course Info 281. Designing Against Hate: An Exploration of Speech and Affordances on Social Media

101 Years of Women

Friday, April 3, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

An informal discussion of women in the history and heritage of the School.

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Making Sense of Data, Social Distancing, and What Lies Ahead

Friday, April 3, 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Campuswide online video series

Rob Sanderson (photo: Sarah Waldorf/Getty Center)

Tiers of Abstraction and Audience in Cultural Heritage Data Modeling

Friday, March 13, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Rob Sanderson is a semantic architect at the J. Paul Getty Trust and a passionate advocate for open culture, linked open data, and the digitization of cultural heritage.

Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Discover how the Organization for Transformative Works built a model for non-corporate, user-driven, online participatory cultures.

I School students rally for Big Give. (Taken in February 2020)

Big Give 2020

Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 9:00 pm, – Thursday, March 12, 2020, 9:00 pm

Seize the moment during Big Give, Berkeley’s annual fundraising event.

Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)

Archiving the Non-Organizational Born-Digital: The Challenges Posed by Material from Individuals, Communities, Social Movements, and Events

Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.

Green NLP

Friday, March 6, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Roy Schwartz is a research scientist at the Allen institute for AI and at the computer science and engineering department at the University of Washington.

Ph.D. Research Reception

Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 4:10 pm - 8:00 pm

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

WiDS Berkeley

Monday, March 2, 2020, 8:45 am - 4:30 pm

Women in Data Science is a one-day technical conference bringing together data scientists and professionals from around the globe to discuss the latest research and applications of data science.

Seminar Project Progress Reports

Friday, February 28, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

What is Wrong with my Model? Detection and Analysis of Bugs in NLP Models

Friday, February 28, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Marco Ribeiro is a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on helping humans interact with machine learning models meaningfully.

Repairing Innovation: The Labor of Integrating New Technologies

Monday, February 24, 2020, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Madeleine Clare Elish uncovers the hidden labor behind automated aviation, driverless cars, small scale agriculture, grocery retail, and emergency healthcare.

Assessing the Reliability of Clothing-Based Forensic Identification

Friday, February 21, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

A 2009 report was highly critical of many forensic practices. This is the first thorough analysis of the purportedly distinct patterns on the seams of denim pants.

Veridical Data Science

Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of statistics and EECS. Her research focuses on practice, algorithm, and theory of statistical machine learning and causal inference.

The Role of Public Libraries, Today and Tomorrow

Friday, February 14, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Monique le Conge Ziesenhenne is the assistant city manager of Palo Alto.

Indigenous-led Security and Digital Safety

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Work to develop an indigenous-led security fund in Sub-Saharan Africa.