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Events

Upcoming events

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

A panel of recent public servants provides a behind-the-scenes look at their work in Washington.

Friday, March 21, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Suzanne Wones is the UC Berkeley University Librarian.

Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, April 16, 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.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 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.

Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch are retiring from the Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar after leading it for 69 consecutive semesters. In their final Information Access Seminar, the two look back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

Honor the class of 2025 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Previous events

Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Catherine Chase is a postdoctoral scholar at Carnegie Mellon University; her research interests include sociable learning technologies, computer-based assessment, learning through contrast, and student motivation.
Monday, March 4, 2013, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Joel Waldfogel is the Frederick R. Kappel Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
Friday, February 22, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, February 15, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Information Access Seminar with Peter Brantley, director of scholarly communications at Hypothes.is.
Friday, February 8, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, January 25, 2013, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Thursday, January 24, 2013, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
A day-long symposium on dynamic data visualization of urban trends, the environment, education, and health and humanitarian response.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 4:10 pm - 6:30 pm
Student teams will present their applications to manage, analyze, and display Big Data from Twitter and other sources in innovative and intriguing ways.
Friday, December 7, 2012, 8:30 am, – Sunday, December 9, 2012, 6:00 pm
The School of Information hosts the PNC annual conference, with the theme “New Horizons: Information Technology Connecting Culture, Community, Time, and Place.”
Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Design Futures Lecture, with Scott Doorley, creative director of the Stanford d.school.
Friday, November 30, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Friday, November 16, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Information Access Seminar, with David S. H. Rosenthal of the Stanford University LOCKSS project
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
A conversation with Mike Olson, co-founder and CEO of Cloudera, about Silicon Valley’s evolving ecosystem and the future of information technology in the age of Big Data.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Design Futures Lecture, with Leila Takayama of Willow Garage.
Saturday, October 27, 2012, 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Do you like data? Do you like making things? The Information Design Hackathon is open to designers and developers of all skill levels interested in creating information from data, with a Grand Prize of $1000 for the best project.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 5:10 pm - 6:00 pm
Design Futures Lecture, with Saul Griffith of Otherlab