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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.

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.

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”.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Friday, February 7, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Social media users are generally averse to archiving their posts, but what can we learn from the the 1940 US Census?

Friday, February 7, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

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

Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

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

Friday, January 31, 2020, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, January 31, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

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

Thursday, January 23, 2020, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

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

Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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

Monday, January 13, 2020, 12:00 pm

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

Friday, December 6, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, December 6, 2019, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm
Thursday, December 5, 2019, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

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

Monday, November 25, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

How practitioners think about design for algorithmic systems and products.

Friday, November 22, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday, November 18, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Key insights for defending against strategic information operations.

Friday, November 15, 2019, 3:10 pm - 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.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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