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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, November 16, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Digital identity systems are quietly reshaping the world, changing how we cross borders, conduct commerce, and interact with our governments. How can we understand the incredible opportunities of these technologies — along with their enormous challenges and risks?
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and learn more about life at the I School.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, a blog which vacillates gleefully between playful, provocative, and downright rude, presents a fast-paced hour of the website’s “greatest hits”, proving that the lines between art, craft, and design have become hopelessly blurred.
Friday, November 4, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Nineteenth-century information-access techniques (indexing, cataloging, classification), implemented successfully in the 20th century (online catalogs, Medline, OCLC, etc.), now seem outmoded and irrelevant in the Web 2.0 era. Are today's techniques just old wine in new bottles? Or really new and different?
Friday, October 28, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Three doctoral students present research projects about information systems and Chinese migrant workers, the politics of information sharing in disaster relief, and what happens when online communities meet in real life.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Finding and using externally produced media is typically a cumbersome process. New software provides access to various legal sources of images built right into the creative workflow and automates the process of attribution.
Friday, October 21, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm
"Design is sexy; craft is frumpy." It's time to kill that particular trope, and it's time to bring them together, says Regina Connell, the founder and editor-in-chief of Handful of Salt, an online magazine devoted to the craft of modern design.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Ramesh Srinivasan reports on his fieldwork on technology, culture, and community-driven design from Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Prospective students are invited to visit classes during the day, or attend the information session at 5:30 pm. RSVP required.
Friday, October 14, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
A report on "Editorial Practices and the Web", a two-year Mellon Foundation–supported project to move the editors' notes into digital form and make them openly accessible.
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and admissions staff and learn more about life at the I School.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Reception during the during the ASIS&T annual meeting, for alumni and friends of the I School, SIMS, the School of Library & Information Studies, and the School of Librarianship.
Friday, October 7, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Lada Adamic is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
Monday, October 3, 2011, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Why do people create, interact, and collaborate online? What are the deep motivations that drive so many to invest significant time and energy on Facebook, Flickr, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Groups, YouTube, and countless other sites?
Friday, September 30, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm

How can breakthrough solutions be found for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces, simply by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future?

Uday Dandavate of SonicRim speaks at the semester's first Design Futures Lecture.

Friday, September 16, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Information Access Seminar, with Clifford Lynch & Michael Buckland