Events

Upcoming Events

Data Dialogs 2017

Oct 23, 2017, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

A one-day conference bringing together data experts from industry, research, and academia.

MIDS Student & Alumni Meet-Up

Oct 24, 2017, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

MIDS students and alumni are invited to mingle over beverages & bites in the one-of-a-kind Autodesk Gallery.

Visual Trumpery: Fighting Against Fake Data and Visualizations — From the Left and From the Right

Oct 25, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

With facts and truth increasingly under assault, sifting through the visual information and misinformation is more critical than ever.

What Counts As Information? What Counts As a Collection?

Oct 27, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

David Sanger (photo: Miller Center, Charlottesville, Virginia https://flic.kr/p/9Y3P5Z)

David Sanger on Cybersecurity and Democracy

Nov 1, 2017, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

MIDS Boston Meet & Greet

Nov 9, 2017, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Connect with other MIDS students and alumni or learn more about the degree program.

Ph.D. Research Reception

Nov 15, 2017, 4:10 pm to 8:00 pm

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

Camille François on Cybersecurity and Democracy

Nov 16, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 21, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select two outstanding projects for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

School of Information 2018 Winter Commencement

Jan 21, 2018, 2:00 pm

Honor summer and fall I School graduates with keynote speaker, student speaker, and presentation of the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

“Does This Vehicle Belong to You?” Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations

Jan 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

A linguistic analysis of policy body-camera data from traffic stops reveals race-based differences. How can the findings improve police-community relations?

Previous Events

Experience with Open Source Linguistic Data and Tools for Analysis of Chinese Text

Oct 28, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Stewardship III: Legal and Policy Issues.

Oct 21, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Social Impact Un-Pitch Day

Oct 21, 2016, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm

An opportunity to match non-profit and community organizations with technologists, to tackle relevant and impactful projects to benefit the public good.

Stewardship II. The Cultural Record and Its evolution in the digital age

Oct 7, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Power-Law Returns in Venture Capital: Strategies for Building and Working with Great Companies

Oct 5, 2016, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Sandeep Bhadra is a venture capitalist at Menlo Ventures. His talk will describe what venture capital firms look for in potential investment candidates, and ‘long-term greedy’ strategies for founders when raising capital

Women In Technology: Recognizing Leaders, Inspiring the Next Generation

Oct 5, 2016, 11:30 am to 6:00 pm

Digitizing Archives of Local TV Stations in East Germany Documenting the Transition of Political Systems after the Reunification

Sep 30, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cyber-Tampering: The More Pernicious Risk, and Why We Need to Tamper-Proof Our Society

Sep 27, 2016, 12:00 pm

Chris Finan is CEO and co-founder of Manifold Technology, a Silicon Valley-based startup that addresses security and governance challenges in advanced infrastructure.

From Scholars' Notes to New Forms of Scholarly Communication

Sep 23, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Nature of the Information Professions

Sep 16, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Big Data, New Physics, and Thoughts on Responsible Innovation

Sep 14, 2016, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jeff Jonas is an acclaimed data scientist who thrives on solving some of the world’s most complex business challenges.

Stewardship I: Stewardship as a Discipline and a Research Area

Sep 9, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Stewardship as a topic of research, including its relationship to other areas and disciplines, including information security and preservation.

Factual Biography as Insfrastructure

Aug 26, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Biographies in machine-parsable structures can provide vital infrastructure for historians, biographers, and other researchers.

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Aug 25, 2016, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select two outstanding projects for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.