Events

Upcoming Events

Addressing Social Media Harm in the Internet Age

Apr 23, 2018, 2:10 pm to 4:00 pm

How do we address social media’s role in harm and conflict?

DataEDGE 2018

Apr 24 2018 - 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.

Adversarial Machine Learning

Apr 26, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Doug Tygar is professor of information and computer science who works in the areas of computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce.

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 26, 2018, 5:00 pm to 8:00 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.

Search Support for All Kinds of Evidence

Apr 27, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How might we develop a unified framework for the description, indexing, and discovery of all kinds of evidence resources?

Emotion in Social Media

Apr 30, 2018, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

New findings about emotions in social media and their implications for social, behavioral, and data sciences.

Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day

Apr 30, 2018, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm

The Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day will highlight student-led projects that apply tech and data for social good.

It’s “Technically Fair” But You May Not Like It: Algorithmic Curation, Filtering, and Prediction Wrestles with Ethics and Public Opinion

Apr 30, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

What to do when software algorithms are designed for statistical fairness or legal compliance, but still seem unfair.

Context, Causality, and Information Flow: Implications for Privacy Engineering, Security, and Data Economics

May 4, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Sebastian Benthall is a security scientist working at the intersection of computer science, economics, law, and philosophy.

MIMS Final Project Showcase

May 10, 2018, 4:00 pm to 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.

School of Information May 2018 Commencement

May 12, 2018, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2018 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.