Events

Honor the class of 2014 with keynote speaker Nicole Wong, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.

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

16 final projects by 43 students shed light on topics ranging from BitCoin to bike share, clinical trials to Chinese censorship, the cost of drugs to the cost of drought, and more.

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.

Exhibition of final projects from the course “Working with Open Data.”

The new frontier in user interfaces is a constellation of wearable gadgets, tablets, smart phones, appliances, and more that can communicate with one another autonomously.

Youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens’ use of social media.

Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.

InfoCamp is an unconference for the information community. Join us for an inspiring day of user experience, data science, information architecture, interaction design, informatics, and more.

Jane Greenberg is a professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the director of the SILS Metadata Research Center.

A one-day symposium on privacy protections, surveillance methods, and modes of resistance in a digital age.