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Events

Upcoming events

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Data Science Spring 2025 Capstone Project Showcase
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.

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Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic Information Session
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Learn more about the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289), a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. 

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A Retrospective on 35 Years of the Information Access Seminar, 1991–2025
Friday, April 25, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar is retiring after 69 consecutive semesters. Michael Buckland looks back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

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A Tribute to Clifford Lynch
Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Clifford Lynch passed away on April 10. A series of short reports by colleagues and friends illuminate his many and varied contributions.

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Biosensory Computing Project Showcase, Part 1
Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Student projects from the Biosensory Computing course.

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Biosensory Computing Project Showcase, Part 2
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Student projects from the Biosensory Computing course.

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Information Visualization Final Project Showcase
Friday, May 9, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

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MIMS 2025 Final Project Showcase
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:00 pm - 8:00 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.

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School of Information 2025 Commencement
Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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

Outstanding Mentor Awards | UC Berkeley School of Information
A Celebration of Mentorship at the I School
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm PDT

Celebrate our student and alumni mentors.

Previous events

Doug van der Molen
Unpacking My Tool Box: Practical Lessons in Interactive Design
Monday, October 1, 2012, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Special Lecture, with Doug van der Molen

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Tweeting Your Way to the White House: Social Media and the 2012 Campaign
Monday, October 1, 2012, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
How does crowd-sourced political dialogue shape campaign agendas? Do new technologies bridge party divides or increase polarization? Join us for a discussion with distinguished experts in politics and social media.
Google and its Consequences for Information Retrieval
Friday, September 21, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Eric Kansa
Sometimes Data is Best Served Cooked, Rather than Raw: Scholarly Publishing and the Web of Data
Friday, September 14, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Oded Nov
Personality-Targeted Design: Theory, Experimental Procedure, and Preliminary Results
Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Oded Nov is an assistant professor of management at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. His talk will introduce a framework for personality-targeted design, much like a medical treatment based on a specific genetic profile.
Ray Larson
The Social Networks and Archival Context Project: Status Report
Friday, September 7, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?
Friday, August 24, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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Alumni and Friends Reception at the 2012 ALA Conference
Sunday, June 24, 2012, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Reception for friends and alumni of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and the School of Librarianship, at the annual ALA Conference
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DataEDGE Conference
Thursday, May 31, 2012, 4:00 pm, – Friday, June 1, 2012, 6:00 pm
Join thought leaders at the DataEDGE conference for a stimulating conversation about a new vision for data science that addresses real-world challenges and opportunities of an exciting new world of big data.
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School of Information Commencement 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012, 2:00 pm
Honor the class of 2012 with student speakers, keynote speaker Caterina Fake, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.
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Master’s 2012 Final Project Showcase
Thursday, May 10, 2012, 4:00 pm - 8:10 pm
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.
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Information Visualization Final Project Showcase
Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fourteen student teams present their visualization projects, each on a very distinct topic. The teams show off their innovative work and knowledge at the intersection of data analysis, design, perception, and communication.
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What’s New About New Materialisms?
Friday, May 4, 2012, 9:00 am, – Saturday, May 5, 2012, 5:00 pm
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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
How is the Internet experienced in the margins of the global economy? I School professor Jenna Burrell presents a detailed study of the youth of Accra, Ghana, and how the Internet does — and sometime does not — connect them with the larger world.
Building the Reproducible Computational Science Movement: Catalyzing Action Through Policy, Software Tools, and Ideas
Friday, April 27, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Todd Carter
Empowering Libraries, Archives, and Museums with Crowd-sourced Human Computation and Linked Open Data
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
What role will museums and libraries play in the information technology landscape of the future? Todd Carter presents his vision of museums and libraries empowered by Web 2.0 and crowd-sourcing technologies.
Data Governance: Another Side of Data Curation
Friday, April 20, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
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Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
A discussion with Howard Rheingold, author of the new book Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. How can we use digital media as grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking neurotics? Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.
Memory Organizations and Evidence to Support Scholarship in the 21st Century
Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Marti Hearst
Building Government IT 2.0: A Personal Account of My Experiences as Chief IT Strategist for a U.S. Federal Agency
Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
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