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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, March 21, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Suzanne Wones is the UC Berkeley University Librarian.

Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

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.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, April 16, 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.

Friday, April 18, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

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.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 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.

Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch are retiring from the Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar after leading it for 69 consecutive semesters. In their final Information Access Seminar, the two look back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

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

Friday, April 26, 2024, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Learn about cutting-edge AI research and advocacy efforts

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 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.

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 3:10 pm - 4:00 pm

Can we combine data from satellites, mobile phones, and financial services providers with machine learning to identify the neediest people and better target humanitarian aid?

Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

The Citizen Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

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.