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Events

Upcoming events

Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm PST

The death by suicide of disabled Black teen Sewell Setzer III and his family’s lawsuit against chatbot company Character.AI have opened up renewed debate and uncertainty about AI safety.

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.

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Cybersecurity Clinic students share their experiences supporting environmental justice, trans community support, reproductive rights, and disability justice organizations.

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm PST

How might AI reshape the sensory norms and moral economies of discernment of American mental healthcare?

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.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm PDT

Timothy Tangherlini uses a computational folkloristic approach to analyze conversations on the social media platform Parler leading up to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Friday, April 19, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland explores the genesis and spread of belief and misbelief.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:00 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.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Matt Mitchell is a senior cybersecurity program manager at the Ford Foundation

Friday, April 12, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The world has been on a decades-long series of experiments trying to build successful decentralized systems marked almost entirely by failure.

Friday, April 5, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Anushah Hossain considers what values and scripts were privileged in today’s core standards for multilingual digital communication — Unicode, OpenType, and more.

Friday, March 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

“Preserving Digital Images and Data” and “Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era”

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Shai Dhaliwal is a cybersecurity consulting manager at Accenture.

Friday, March 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Christine Borgman is a distinguished research professor in information studies at UCLA.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 9:00 pm PDT, – Thursday, March 14, 2024, 9:00 pm PDT

Support the I School during Berkeley’s 10th annual fundraising blitz.

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

Javier Cha is a medievalist, digital historian, and technologist and principal investigator of the Big Data Studies Lab.

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Hear from notable thought leaders and celebrate individuals who have made significant impacts in tech policy governance, journalism, and innovation.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 9:30 am - 11:29 am

What implications does widespread biometric identification have on the future of privacy and surveillance?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, February 23, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Coye Cheshire explores the trustworthiness of health information in online environments.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Jevin West breaks down the threats of scientific disinformation, predatory publishing and pseudoscience, the reproducability crisis, and generative AI.

Friday, February 16, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Jevin West studies misinformation and how it spreads in science and society.

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

What implications does widespread biometric identification have on the future of privacy and surveillance?

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Join the High Commissioner and the Berkeley Human Rights Center for the official launch of the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations.