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Upcoming Events

John deCraen
When AI Is a Four-letter Word: The Next Great Corporate Dilemma
Oct 2, 2023, 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm
John deCraen explores the ethical, security, operational, and competitive issues that organizations face with the spread of artificial intelligence.
Paul Duguid
From Whitewashing to Greenwashing: PR’s Approach to Climate Science
Oct 6, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Greenpeace recently declared that we are living in “the golden age of greenwashing.” Paul Duguid looks at how we got there.
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Computer Security and Privacy Research: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Oct 11, 2023, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm
Tadayoshi Kohno charts the evolution of computer security over the past 20 years and makes some predictions for the future.
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Information Access Seminar: Johanna Drucker
Oct 13, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Johanna Drucker is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at UCLA and is internationally known for her work in digital humanities.
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105th Birthday Celebration
Oct 20, 2023, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 105th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.
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Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Global Insights to Anticipate and Address Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Challenges
Oct 20, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Cybersecurity Futures 2030 is a foresight-focused scenario-planning exercise considering how cybersecurity is set to transform over the next five to seven years.
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Intelligence Augmentation: Effective Human-AI Interaction to Supercharge Scientific Research
Oct 25, 2023, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm
Daniel S. Weld outlines the principles and pitfalls of effective human-AI interaction.
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Cybersecurity Fall 2023 Capstone Project Showcase
Dec 13, 2023, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.
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Data Science Fall 2023 Capstone Project Showcase
Dec 21, 2023, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
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

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A DAO-First World
Oct 27, 2022, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) promise radical new forms of collective organization and ownership. But can they deliver?
Jeff Hancock
The Truth Bias vs. Misinformation: Exposure, Effects and Interventions
Oct 26, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Jeff Hancock is a leading expert on technology’s role in deception and trust. Hancock is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in Communication.
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Student Progress Reports
Oct 21, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Short reports from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Sarah Barrington, Ameya Naik, and Siddharth Adelkar
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Training Models to Critique Themselves
Oct 21, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Jeff Wu is a research engineer at OpenAI working on language modeling (e.g. GPT-2) and alignment (InstructGPT).
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Series on Justice and Content Governance: Restorative Justice Workshop
Oct 21, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.
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Who Broke Mechanical Turk?
Oct 14, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Crowdsourcing data has recently become mostly unusable. Catherine Marshall uncovers what’s happening.
Alex Tamkin
Self-Supervised Learning for the Real World
Oct 14, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Alex Tamkin is a Ph.D. student researching self-supervised learning, especially in multimodal and domain-general settings.
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The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India
Oct 12, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.
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Citizen Clinic Pizza Information Session
Oct 11, 2022, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
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.
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Contexts, Works, and Catalogs
Oct 7, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Michael Buckland & Wayne de Fremery propose context-based changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery.
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Series on Justice and Content Governance: Infrastructures, Assemblages, and Ecosystems
Oct 7, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.
Clifford Lynch
Stewardship: The Scope of the Challenge
Sep 30, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.
Arya McCarthy
Kilolanguage Learning, Projection, and Translation
Sep 30, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing
Hany Farid
Disinformation and Deepfakes
Sep 28, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
We are awash in disinformation of lies, conspiracies, and now a new form of manipulated media — so-called deepfakes. Hany Farid explains how deepfakes are created and how to tell truth from fiction.
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Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Looking Around the Corner
Sep 27, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.
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Matrix on Point: Humanitarian Technologies
Sep 26, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?
Chris Freeland
Controlled Digital Lending
Sep 23, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Chris Freeland is director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive.
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Series on Justice and Content Governance: Refiguring Systems and Justice
Sep 23, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
How conceptions of justice, especially restorative justice, can drive the structures and practices of content governance.
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Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them
Sep 21, 2022, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Behind the census’s neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories — you just have to know how to read them.
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Short Reports
Sep 16, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Short research presentations from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Siddharth Adelkar, Sarah Barrington, and Ameya Naik.

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