Events

Eric T. Meyer is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information

When identifying organ transplant recipients — and in other matching problems — is it better to find a match more quickly, or more slowly and carefully? Afshin Nikzad’s research weighs the tradeoffs in different circumstances.

Digital technologies have reshaped the movie industry. What are the implications for the industry’s future?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.