Events

Upcoming events

Cybersecurity Summer 2025 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, August 6, 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.

graphics of data analysis, data visualization and other data science tools

Data Science Summer 2025 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, August 14, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:00 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.

A festive picnic on the grass in front of South Hall

I School Community Picnic

Sunday, August 17, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A festive summer gathering for I School students, alumni, staff, faculty, and friends.

Previous events

Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?

Friday, August 24, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Tortilla Jo's <br />(photo by <a href="http://flic.kr/p/6aewy">M P R</a>)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

What’s New About New Materialisms?

Friday, May 4, 2012, 9:00 am, – Saturday, May 5, 2012, 5:00 pm

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

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

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

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

Interaction and Collaboration in Cultural Heritage Information Systems

Friday, April 6, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks

Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

How do companies use Facebook to investigate potential employees? And does Facebook facilitate illegal employment bias?

Can You Spell Idiographic? — Designing Information Systems for Humanities Scholarship

Friday, March 23, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Irina Bokova <br>(photo <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/unescosantiago/5040338206/">courtesy of UNESCO</a>)

Panel on Information Access & Freedom in the Digital Age

Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Panel discussion with Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO; privacy and censorship scholars Deirdre Mulligan & Nicole Wong; and Chinese human-rights activist Qiang Xiao; moderated by Geoffrey Nunberg.

InfoCamp 2012

Saturday, March 17, 2012, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

InfoCamp Berkeley is an unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, or related fields.

Whose Content is it Anyway? A User Perspective on the Ownership and Control of Social Media

Friday, March 16, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm