Events

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Open data infrastructures promise transparency, collaboration, and democratized access to scientific knowledge. But what happens when these same principles enable challenges to scientific consensus? 

Xiang Zheng analyzes large-scale faculty datasets to reveal connections between tenure, incentives, and innovation.

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Bob L. T. Sturm.

Bob L. T. Sturm is an associate professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the PI of the MUSAiC project.

Emma Lurie untangles the roots of online harms in platform design, regulatory structures, and expert discourse.

Zackary Okun Dunivin’s work examines cultural phenomena at scale, including political discourse, mythmaking, information systems, and organizational communication.

Online misinformation is a growing concern. Dr. Madeline Jalbert identifies the underlying psychological processes, the role that feelings play, and the criteria people use to assess truth. 

Jerry Chai describes governmental censorship programs and their risks and outlines real-world circumvention and resistance strategies.

Many of today’s most pervasive digital security and privacy threats come not from distant hackers, but from the individuals around us.

Sayash Kapoor is coauthor of AI Snake Oil and author of the newsletter AI as Normal Technology. He explains the stakes of misplaced optimism about AI in science, medicine, and more.

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Bellwether Lecturer Michaela Mahlberg.

Michaela Mahlberg is a corpus linguist who studies language as a social phenomenon and the ways we use language to understand and shape our world.

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.

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

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Cybersecurity Clinic students share their experiences supporting public-interest organizations vulnerable to ideologically motivated threats.

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Exploring novel methods for deepfake detection, technical methods for biometric system evaluation, and the complexity of data privacy and consent in high-stakes situations