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Events

Upcoming events

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm PDT

Celebrate our student and alumni mentors.

Monday, July 21, 2025 - Sunday, July 27, 2025

A fun run/walk/roll for the I School community.

Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

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

Thursday, August 14, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

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.

Previous events

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.