Events

Upcoming events

Friday, January 24, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The recovery of of biographical pages webpages for a hundred North American pioneers of Information

Friday, January 31, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

The Politics of the Chips Act, or how to think about the manufacturing of advanced integrated circuits

Friday, February 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The Chips Act subsidizes US and Taiwanese chip manufacturers to locate new facilities in the United States. What are the prospects for success?

Corporate Whitewashing

Friday, February 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Paul Duguid recently retired as an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Figurative graphic of multiple 3D laptops with security icons

State of Secure Communications in 2025

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm PST

As cybersecurity threats and the digital landscape evolve, secure communication has never been more critical. A panel of industry professionals, consultants, and journalists share their experiences and insights.

Information Access Seminar: Howard Besser

Friday, March 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Information Access Seminar: Suzanne Wones, University Librarian

Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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.

A group of graduating master's students at their commencement ceremony, wearing black caps and gowns with gold master's hoods.

School of Information 2025 Commencement

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

Honor the class of 2025 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Previous events

MIMS Final Project Showcase

Thursday, May 14, 2020, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating master’s 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.

Copy Theory

Friday, May 1, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

The history and theory of copying and of copies

Data Science Spring 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, April 30, 2020, 5:00 pm - 8:00 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.

Seminar Project Reports

Friday, April 24, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Student reports on e-commerce marketing, AI, and cloud information systems.

Data Science and User Experience: Making Data Science Useful for Earth Scientists

Thursday, April 23, 2020, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Sarah Poon and Deb Agarwal of LBNL discuss their experience at the intersection of data science and user experience.

Berkeley Conversations on COVID-19: Understanding and Seeking Equity amid COVID-19

Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Campuswide online video series

UC Berkeley’s Digital Lifecycle Program: Mass Digitization of Special Collections for Use and Preservation

Friday, April 17, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How the UC Berkeley Library is digitizing its rare and special historical collections.

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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.

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.