Events

Upcoming Events

Democratizing Data Science

Oct 17, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Making it easy for individuals and teams to manage, analyze, and draw insights from large datasets.

Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)

Digital Privacy for Librarians (and Others)

Oct 19, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How librarians can support digital privacy practices in their communities.

Dinner & Data: Open Data, Open Government, and Social Impact

Oct 24, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Alan Steremberg (Weather Underground co-founder and former Presidential Innovation Fellow) and Corinna Zarek (Mozilla Senior Tech Policy Fellow and former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer). Advance registration required.

Digital Security Crash Course

Oct 25, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Hands-on digital security training for people at all levels of expertise.

Florilegia: Organizing Scholarly Annotations in PDFs

Oct 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Equitable Algorithms: A Social Welfare Function Approach

Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how and why algorithms can be designed for fairness.

Detecting Discrimination: What Eddie Murphy Teaches Us about Theory and Method

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Issa Kohler-Hausmann studies the methodological and theoretical issues in stating and proving discrimination claims.

GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.

Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing and Blockchain: What's Not To Like?

Nov 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Denver Data Science Meet-up

Nov 5, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

MIDS students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.

Dinner & Data: Privacy, Security, and Fairness: the Challenges of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Nov 7, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Colleen Chien, former White House Senior Advisor on Intellectual Property and Innovation, and Terah Lyons, former Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Shoshanna Zuboff (photo by Sascha Pflaeging)

How We Fight Surveillance Capitalism

Nov 9, 2018, 12:10 pm to 2:00 pm

Workshop with Professor Shoshana Zuboff

Data in the Higher Education Curriculum

Nov 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Dinner & Data: Data, Technology, and Governance for Public Good

Nov 14, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Kristie Canegallo, former Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation; DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist; and Nicole Wong, former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Women in Tech: The Future of AI

Nov 16, 2018, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

School of Information 2019 Winter Commencement

Jan 12, 2019, 2:00 pm

Honor summer and fall I School graduates with keynote speaker, student speaker, and presentation of the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

DataEDGE 2019

Apr 23 2019 - All-day event

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.

Previous Events

ICTD 2009 Conference

Apr 17, 2009, 8:00 am to Apr 19, 2009, 5:00 pm

The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), in Doha, Qatar

Sustainable Innovation

Apr 15, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Judy Estrin, the CEO of JLABS, LLC, and author of “Closing the Innovation Gap,” talks about the importance of reigniting sustainable innovation in business, education and government

Reflections on the Google Booksearch Settlement

Apr 14, 2009, 3:00 pm

I School Professor Pamela Samuelson delivers the University of North Carolina's third annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The Wikipedia Revolution

Apr 1, 2009, 4:00 pm

Andrew Lih recounts colorful behind-the-scenes stories of how obsessive map editors, automated software robots, and warring factions have come to shape a complex online community of knowledge gatherers.

Stuart Shieber on Open Access

Mar 30, 2009, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Stuart Shieber, head of Harvard University’s Office of Scholarly Communication, discusses Harvard's mandate of open access for its faculty members’ research publications.

The World According to grep: What Have We Been Searching For?

Mar 20, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Defending Your Civil Liberties in Cyberspace

Mar 17, 2009, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Editing Historical Papers in a Digital Environment

Mar 13, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Designing for the Future of Interactive Entertainment

Mar 11, 2009, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Lessons from a Road Warrior

Mar 11, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Economist John Rutledge discusses nonequilibrium thermodynamics, network failures and the information economy, and the role played by government officials and media in the neuroscience of fear, to demonstrate how the current global economic crisis is a network failure of the worldwide information system.

Explaining Inequality Within and Between Information Societies

Mar 9, 2009, 4:00 pm

Philip Howard asks why technology advances more slowly in some societies than in others, and how policy-makers can help

Group Tour of Remodeled Bancroft Library

Mar 6, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Workshop on the Economics of Securing the Information Infrastructure (WESII 2009)

Mar 5, 2009, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Career Fair

Mar 4, 2009, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

The Internets We Did Not Build

Mar 4, 2009, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

David Clark, formerly the Internet's Chief Protocol Architect, discusses the reasons for the design of the Internet and possible implications if it had been built differently.

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web

Feb 27, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration

Feb 23, 2009, 4:00 pm

Student Progress Reports and iSchools Conference report

Feb 20, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Feb 18, 2009, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics

Feb 18, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Authors Lowell Feld and Nate Wilcox give first-hand accounts of the burgeoning power of the netroots to determine the outcome of political contests, with a focus on the role of citizen activists in Barack Obama's election, Jim Webb's 2006 Senate victory, and the fall of Tom DeLay.

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