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Events

Upcoming events

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Cybersecurity Summer 2025 Capstone Project Showcase
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.

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Data Science Summer 2025 Capstone Project Showcase
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.

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I School Community Picnic
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

Melanie Feinberg
Making Use of Interpretive Flexibility in Metadata Implementation
Friday, May 13, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:10 pm
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MIMS Final Project Showcase
Thursday, May 12, 2016, 4:00 pm - 7:45 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.

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Information Visualization and Presentation Final Project Showcase
Friday, May 6, 2016, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Class projects in information visualization, exploring sports and music, drugs and incarceration and refugees, transit and online learning, and more!
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DataEDGE 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016, 12:00 am, – Friday, May 6, 2016, 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.
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Data Science Capstone Project Showcase
Monday, May 2, 2016, 4:00 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.

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Toward a Gender-Inclusive Internet: Strategies to Counter Harassment, Revenge Porn, Threats, and Online Abuse
Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

From Gamergate to revenge porn, cyberharassment and abuse disproportionately target women — often with devastating consequences. Join this expert panel to discuss how we can make a meaningful contribution to a gender-equal internet.

Public Health NGOs and Open Science Politics: Rhetorics of Openness, Health Field Contestations, and the Elusiveness of Health Equity
Friday, April 22, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:30 pm
JeanCarlo (J.C.) Bonilla
The Rise of Data Science for Social Good
Thursday, April 21, 2016, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The rise of data science for social good and the relationship between optimizing for the bottom line vs. optimizing for social justice.
Solon Barocas
How Machines Learn to Discriminate
Wednesday, April 20, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
How does machine learning unintentionally inherit society’s prejudices, implicit biases, and faulty heuristics?
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
Wasn't Digitization Supposed to be Easy? And Good for Us?
Friday, April 15, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Katie Shilton
Values in the Stack: Challenges and Levers for Building Ethical Data Infrastructures
Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Katie Shilton is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland whose research explores ethics in mobile application development.

Maria Giudice
The Rise of the Design Executive Officer
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Maria Giudice is VP of experience design Autodesk and the author of Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design.
Jim Michalko
Library Collaboration — Does it have a future? What kind?
Friday, April 8, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Jim Michalko recently retired from his position as VP of research libraries at OCLC.
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Oakland A's Game & Tailgate
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 5:30 pm
Join I School students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends for a night at the ballpark and pregame tailgate party.
Min Kyung Lee
Toward Human-Centered Algorithmic Technologies
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Data-driven algorithms run more and more of the world — with speed and efficiency, but also unintended bias, unfairness, and incomprehensibility.
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Finessing Your UX Foundation Skills for Real Life
Saturday, April 2, 2016, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

A one-day workshop with UX leader Uday Gajendar will offer a high-intensity yet fun overview of major UX methods for software design projects.

Software Preservation and Attacks on the Cultural Record
Friday, April 1, 2016, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Christian Marc Schmidt
Designing for Knowledge: Beyond Data Visualization
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Christian Marc Schmidt is principal and founder of Schema, a creative design and technology studio focused on the intersection of interaction design and data visualization.
Robert West
Human Behavior in Networks
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Robert West studies human behavior in social and information networks using data science, data mining, network analysis, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
A Walk Through the Work of a Policy Technologist
Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 9:40 am - 11:00 am
Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the chief technologist and director of the internet architecture project at the Center for Democracy & Technology.
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