Events

Vivien Petras is a professor of information retrieval at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Oliver Korn explores research into the role of embodiment in both physical and virtual spaces. 

Online abuse is getting worse, and it disproportionately harms people already marginalized in society. Miranda Wei outlines new ways to think about online abuse and what we can do to stop it.

Karen Coyle is a librarian with over four decades of experience with library technology. 

As cybersecurity threats and the digital landscape evolve, secure communication has never been more critical. A panel of industry professionals, consultants, and journalists share their experiences and insights.

Security and privacy solutions designed in the West can fall apart when applied to other regions, leaving end-users at risk.

The rapid adoption of generative AI has created a cycle where personal information cascades perpetually. Niloofar Mireshghallah examines generative AI’s interplay between data, people, and models.

The history of corporations manipulating information to maintain clean identities after coming under attack.

Professor Hany Farid discusses how generative AI, so-called deepfakes, work and are being used and misused.

The Chips Act subsidizes US and Taiwanese chip manufacturers to locate new facilities in the United States. What are the prospects for success?

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

The recovery of of biographical pages webpages for a hundred North American pioneers of Information

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 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

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

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

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

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.

Algorithms and AI impact access to work and other essential resources, especially for low-income people. Lily Irani describes  the policies, practices, and algorithms of suspicion that control workers’ access to wages and work on digital platforms.

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.