Events

Upcoming events

Cybersecurity Summer 2026 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, August 5, 2026, 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.

graphics of data analysis, data visualization and other data science tools

Data Science Summer 2026 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, August 13, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 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.

Cybersecurity Fall 2026 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 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.

Data Science Fall 2026 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, December 17, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 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.

Previous events

Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work

Monday, November 18, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Key insights for defending against strategic information operations.

Two Talks: “Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models” and “Probing Neural NLP: Ideas and Problems”

Monday, November 18, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Berkeley Natural Language Processing Seminar

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames

Author Conversation on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”

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.

Three I School students chatting, holding drinks. (Photo by Hewitt Photography for Berkeley I School, 2019)

Denver Meet-up

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.

Cybersecurity 2024

Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Steven Weber and Amit Elazari forecast cybersecurity in 2024 to illuminate what’s at stake today. (A “Discover Cal” lecture.)

Two Talks: Incorporating Sense-making Into Descriptions of Information Systems and Scenarios and Issues in “Send Computation to the Data” Repository Models

Friday, November 8, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India

Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Requiring biometric authentication excluded and inconenienced legitimate beneficiaries of a social protection program.

ABCs of Information: Content, Context, Relevance, and other Challenges

Friday, November 1, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How could we evolve a more satisfactory tool-kit of concepts and terms as a stronger basis for information studies?

Intimate and Accountable Reconfigurations of Social Platforms

Friday, October 25, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How might online spaces be reconfigured against harassment and abuse?

Engage, Design, Examine: Five Years of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy

Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

A festive celebration of five years of CTSP, with a showcase of selected projects from the past five years.

Community Data Science Approaches to Digital Gun Violence Prevention

Friday, October 18, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

The promises and challenges of using AI to help prevent violence based on social media content and engagement.

Simplifying and Accelerating Data Exploration

Friday, October 18, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How could interactive data exploration tools be redesigned to give deeper insights more easily and quickly?

The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Thursday, October 17, 2019, 12:59 pm - 5:30 pm

Dr. Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity.

Photo courtesy of Jessie Hodge https://flic.kr/p/em8u7G

I School Meet-up in DC

Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

I School students and alumni are invited to a meet-up and happy hour to meet new friends and mingle with old.

Mind Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates

Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

What people think machines can know about the mind, and why their beliefs matter

CANCELED: Archiving the Non-Organizational Born-Digital: The Challenges Posed by Material from Individuals, Communities, Social Movements, and Events

Friday, October 11, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.

This School’s Social Mission: The Early Days

Friday, October 4, 2019, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

This School was founded in 1918 on a strong social agenda; Professor Buckland will review the past 101 years of its mission.

From Smart Phones to Smart Students

Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Distraction versus learning with mobile devices in the classroom and student success

101st Birthday Celebration

Friday, September 27, 2019, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 101st birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Social Impact Un-Pitch Day 2019

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join CTSP and IMSA to brainstorm ideas for projects that address the challenges of technology, society, and policy.