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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, January 31, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Friday, February 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The Chips Act subsidizes US and Taiwanese chip manufacturers to locate new facilities in the United States. What are the prospects for success?

Friday, February 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Paul Duguid recently retired as an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm PST

As cybersecurity threats and the digital landscape evolve, secure communication has never been more critical. A panel of industry professionals, consultants, and journalists share their experiences and insights.

Friday, March 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
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.

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.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Chris Riley is a designer and global communications strategist and the founder of Studioriley. He explores the relationship between business and culture through brand strategy and communications design.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm
A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy, and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon addresses the fundamental and urgent question of how technology should support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday, February 6, 2012, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Half-day workshop with new insights into how librarians can apply fair use principles to resolve copyright challenges.
Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.
Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, January 27, 2012, 1:10 pm - 2:30 pm
Karl Kathuria of the BBC World Service discusses the challenges of broadcasting the news to countries with governmental Internet censorship, like Iran and China.
Monday, January 23, 2012, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy
Friday, January 20, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, January 6, 2012, 11:59 pm
Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:00 am, – Friday, December 16, 2011, 6:00 pm
Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Monday, December 5, 2011, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
(Exhibition repeats on Wednesday, December 7.)
Friday, December 2, 2011, 11:59 pm
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
David Weinberger is one of the most respected thought-leaders at the intersection of technology, business, and society. His new book, Too Big to Know, explores how the networking of knowledge is transforming expertise and decision-making in business, government, education, and science.
Monday, November 21, 2011, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
The public “right to hear” has historically underpinned models of democratic freedom and press autonomy. What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments?