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Events

Upcoming events

Wednesday, August 6, 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.

Thursday, August 14, 2025, 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.

Sunday, August 17, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A festive summer gathering for I School students, alumni, staff, faculty, and friends.

Previous events

Monday, August 28, 2017, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select two outstanding projects for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Friday, August 25, 2017, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Clifford Lynch introduces the “age of algorithms” and suggests opportunities for future research.

Friday, July 28, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Daniel Gillick is a research scientist at Google, where he focuses on natural language processing. 

Friday, July 21, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Vartika Singh is a data science architect at Cloudera.

Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lina Nilsson is a biochemical engineer and the COO of Enlitic, a medical deep learning company.

Thursday, July 6, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Using lens of reverse mode autodiff, with examples and Jupyter notebooks in Python and TensorFlow.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Richard Socher is the chief scientist at Salesforce and researches artificial intelligence (deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision)

Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Deep learning has enabled major breakthroughs in the fields of computer vision, speech recognition, and control systems.

Saturday, May 13, 2017, 12:00 pm

Honor the class of 2017 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Thursday, May 11, 2017, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select one outstanding project from each track for the James R. Chen Award.

Monday, May 8, 2017, 12:00 am, – Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 12:00 am

Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm

Final project presentations for the course Info 290T. Data Mining and Analytics.

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

What quantum technologies are on the horizon and how will they influence the future of international security?

Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm

Final project presentations for the course Info 290T. Data Mining and Analytics.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The challenges of using advanced analytics to monitor cybersecurity threats.

Monday, May 1, 2017, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select two outstanding projects for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Monday, May 1, 2017, 1:10 pm - 2:30 pm

Analyses of real-world data with the potential benefit the world’s poor.

Friday, April 28, 2017, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor at the Texas A&M University Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm

A panel discussion of the role of digital media in political action, advocacy, and public life, from the Berkeley campus to the national stage.