Events

Upcoming Events

UC Berkeley AI Policy Research Symposium 2024

Apr 26, 2024, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Learn about cutting-edge AI research and advocacy efforts

Early Thoughts on AI-based Systems and Stewardship of the Evolving Cultural Record

Apr 26, 2024, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions generative AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

MIMS 2024 Final Project Showcase

May 9, 2024, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Graduating MIMS students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

School of Information May 2024 Commencement

May 18, 2024, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2024 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Cybersecurity Summer 2024 Capstone Project Showcase

Aug 7, 2024, 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.

Previous Events

Online Ads and Offline Sales: Measuring the Effects of Online Advertising via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo!

Feb 12, 2014, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Does online advertising actually work? Google scientist David Reiley says it does — but not in the way you expect. In this lecture, he reveals the surprising impact of online advertising on bricks-and-mortar sales.

Brown Bag Seminar: A Reality Game to Cross Disciplines

Feb 12, 2014, 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Benjamin Stokes investigates how digital media foster civic engagement, informal learning, and activism.

"A lot has happened on Facebook since you last logged in": Speculations about the long-term fate of social media

Feb 7, 2014, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

NSA Spying, Snowden, and Sparking Change

Feb 5, 2014, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

A timely and engaging conversation with Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties director at the ACLU of Northern California.

Transitions of Stewardship

Jan 31, 2014, 3:10 pm to 5:10 pm

Redesigning Reference Works

Jan 24, 2014, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 11, 2013, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 9, 2013, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

OCLC Research Library Partnership: Registering Researchers in Authority Files

Dec 6, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Alternative Visions of Internet-like Connectivity

Dec 6, 2013, 2:10 pm to 3:00 pm

Investigating What Makes 3D Visualizations Difficult

Nov 22, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar, with Marilyn Tremaine

Social Innovation Hackathon

Nov 15, 2013, 6:00 pm to Nov 16, 2013, 5:00 pm

The Social Innovation Hackathon is sponsored by the Peace Corps, and will tackle real-world problems faced by Peace Corps projects around the world.

“Alternative Visions of Internet Connectivity” and “The Failure of Stewardship Organizations and the Transfer or Conservation of Cultural Materials”

Nov 15, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information access seminar, with Nick Merrill and Clifford Lynch

From Data Visualisation to Data Manifestation

Nov 14, 2013, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture, with Dr. Kevin Walker, Head of Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art

War Stories from Tech Policy: Backdoor mandates, the cryptapocalypse, and license plates for drones

Nov 12, 2013, 11:40 am to 1:00 pm

Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the Chief Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology

From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China

Nov 1, 2013, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Elisa Oreglia presents her doctoral dissertation research on the role of migrant Chinese workers in the spread of technology, based on in-depth ethnographic studies in three small Chinese villages.

Careers in Information Policy: Technologists’ Contributions to Information Policy

Oct 28, 2013, 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm

Meet the technologists on the forefront of global information policy debates and find out how you can follow in their footsteps.