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The Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) is an online degree preparing data science professionals to solve real-world problems. The 5th Year MIDS program is a streamlined path to a MIDS degree for Cal undergraduates.
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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.
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.
Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.