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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

Two Talks: Incorporating Sense-making Into Descriptions of Information Systems and Scenarios and Issues in “Send Computation to the Data” Repository Models

Nov 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India

Nov 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 6:00 pm

Requiring biometric authentication excluded and inconenienced legitimate beneficiaries of a social protection program.

ABCs of Information: Content, Context, Relevance, and other Challenges

Nov 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How could we evolve a more satisfactory tool-kit of concepts and terms as a stronger basis for information studies?

Intimate and Accountable Reconfigurations of Social Platforms

Oct 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How might online spaces be reconfigured against harassment and abuse?

Engage, Design, Examine: Five Years of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy

Oct 22, 2019, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

A festive celebration of five years of CTSP, with a showcase of selected projects from the past five years.

Community Data Science Approaches to Digital Gun Violence Prevention

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

The promises and challenges of using AI to help prevent violence based on social media content and engagement.

Simplifying and Accelerating Data Exploration

Oct 18, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How could interactive data exploration tools be redesigned to give deeper insights more easily and quickly?

The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Oct 17, 2019, 12:59 pm to 5:30 pm

Dr. Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity.

Photo courtesy of Jessie Hodge https://flic.kr/p/em8u7G

I School Meet-up in DC

Oct 16, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

I School students and alumni are invited to a meet-up and happy hour to meet new friends and mingle with old.

Mind Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates

Oct 16, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

What people think machines can know about the mind, and why their beliefs matter

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

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

Oct 11, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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

This School’s Social Mission: The Early Days

Oct 4, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

This School was founded in 1918 on a strong social agenda; Professor Buckland will review the past 101 years of its mission.

From Smart Phones to Smart Students

Oct 2, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Distraction versus learning with mobile devices in the classroom and student success

101st Birthday Celebration

Sep 27, 2019, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 101st birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Social Impact Un-Pitch Day 2019

Sep 26, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Join CTSP and IMSA to brainstorm ideas for projects that address the challenges of technology, society, and policy.

Towards an Artificial Intuition: Conversational Markers of (Anti)Social Dynamics

Sep 23, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Designing a Future with ML + UX

Sep 23, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

As AI and ML shape technology, how do we ensure that products are designed by and for people?

Scaling Cybersecurity Support for Civil Society

Sep 20, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity’s Citizen Clinic is combating sophisticated attacks from governments, hate groups, terrorists, and multinational corporations.

Public Policy Initiatives That Might Improve Digital Stewardship

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

Alternate policy approaches for stewardship of some classes of cultural materials in the current world.

I School Fall 2019 Meet-up: Celebrating Entrepreneurship

Sep 11, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Meet new friends and catch up with old on the rooftop deck of venture capital firm Accel

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