Events

Upcoming Events

Matrix on Point: Humanitarian Technologies

Sep 26, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?

Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Looking Around the Corner

Sep 27, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.

Disinformation and Deepfakes

Sep 28, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

We are awash in disinformation of lies, conspiracies, and now a new form of manipulated media — so-called deepfakes. Hany Farid explains how deepfakes are created and how to tell truth from fiction.

Kilolanguage Learning, Projection, and Translation

Sep 30, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing

Stewardship: The Scope of the Challenge

Sep 30, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Infrastructures, Assemblages, and Ecosystems

Oct 7, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.

Contexts, Works, and Catalogs

Oct 7, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Michael Buckland & Wayne de Fremery propose context-based changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery.

Citizen Clinic Pizza Information Session

Oct 11, 2022, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Citizen Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

Book cover: “The Political Lives of Information Information” by Janaki Srinivasan

The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India

Oct 12, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

Natural Language Processing Seminar with Alex Tamkin

Oct 14, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Who Broke Mechanical Turk?

Oct 14, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Crowdsourcing data has recently become mostly unusable. Catherine Marshall uncovers what’s happening.

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Restorative Justice Workshop

Oct 21, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.

Student Progress Reports

Oct 21, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Jeff Hancock

Oct 26, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jeff Hancock is a leading expert on technology’s role in deception and trust. Hancock is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in Communication.

104th Birthday Celebration

Oct 28, 2022, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 104th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Stewardship Lecture #3

Nov 4, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Jessica Hullman

Nov 9, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jessica Hullman is a leading expert in information visualization and uncertainty. Hullman is an information scientist and computer scientist by training, and an associate professor at Northwestern University.

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Kate Starbird

Nov 16, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Kate Starbird is a leading expert on how people use social media to seek, share, and make sense of information and misinformation. Starbird’s training is in technology, media, and society, with an emphasis on HCI, and she is an associate professor at the University of Washington.

Student Final Reports

Nov 18, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: David Rand

Nov 30, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

David Rand is a leading expert in the psychology of misinformation. Rand is a systems biologist and psychologist and runs MIT’s Human Cooperation Lab.

Previous Events

Ph.D. Research Reception, Part 1

Mar 10, 2021, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

WiDS Berkeley: Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley

Mar 8 2021 - All-day event

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Information Seeking Research: A State of the Art

Mar 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Context and Relevance

Feb 26, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

Prediction Games: Using Evidence and Data-based Forecasting to Pique Interest in Complex Topics and Real-world Events

Feb 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Prediction games pit players against one another as they use open data and news stories to forecast the outcome of real-world events.

Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton

Historicizing Information

Feb 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Bloc by Bloc. Image courtesy of Harvard University Press.

Authors Meet Critics: Bloc by Bloc

Feb 11, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Steven Weber puts forward a compelling new model for global organization that integrates modern developments in technology and governance.

The Future of Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale: A Look at MLflow, Delta Lake, and Emerging Tools

Feb 10, 2021, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Jules S. Damji surveys emerging technologies to address the challenges of data at scale

Securing the Digital Supply Chain

Feb 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

David S. H. Rosenthal is the co-founder of the LOCKSS program at Stanford University.

Cash Transfers at Scale

Jan 29, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Cash transfers to people in extreme poverty have become a policy tool of choice; should policy-makers go all the way to Universal Basic Income?

Science Nationalism

Jan 29, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Emerging science nationalism and its implications for the research enterprise and the global system of scholarly communication.

How New Information Can Change Old Social Norms

Jan 25, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Can widespread misperceptions about others’ beliefs sustain social norms? How do social norms change when new information becomes available?

Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy

Jan 22, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How team identity boosts worker engagement in a gig economy.

Understanding the ‘Splinternet’

Jan 22, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation hides the uncomfortable truth: the Internet has always been affected by political realities. Our measurements reveal a multi-polar Internet.

Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Data and Artificial Intelligence

Jan 21, 2021, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Denny Lee is a developer advocate at Databricks

Data Science Fall 2020 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 17, 2020, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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.