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Beyond the Ouch: Activating Anti-racists in Data and Digital Spaces

Apr 14, 2021, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Tawana Petty responds to the racial bias baked into our data, digital, and technological systems

Cybersecurity Spring 2021 Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 14, 2021, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Two Talks: The Elsevier Agreement and Stewardship of the Cultural Record

Apr 16, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cliff Lynch discusses cultural stewardship & “cancel culture” and Ivy Anderson of CDL discusses UC’s landmark open access contract with Elsevier.

Data Science Spring 2021 Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 22, 2021, 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.

“Living Document”: from Mimesis to Indexicality, from Documentation to Documentality

Apr 23, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Rob Day explores the concept of the “living document” as joining knowledge and experience, science and literature.

Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 2

Apr 26, 2021, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm

Post-Covid Planning

Apr 30, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

MIMS Final Project Showcase

May 13, 2021, 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

School of Information 2021 Virtual Commencement

May 16, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Honor the classes of 2020 and 2021 with keynote speaker Brad Smith, president of Microsoft; faculty tributes; and presentation of capstone awards.

Previous Events

Beyond “Bots and Trolls” — Understanding Disinformation as Collaborative Work

Nov 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Key insights for defending against strategic information operations.

Two Talks: “Generalization through Memorization: Nearest Neighbor Language Models” and “Probing Neural NLP: Ideas and Problems”

Nov 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Berkeley Natural Language Processing Seminar

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames

Author Conversation on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”

Nov 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Morgan Ames and LA Review of Books editor Michele Pridmore-Brown discuss the legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and our refusal to learn from its failure.

Denver Meet-up

Nov 13, 2019, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.

Cybersecurity 2024

Nov 12, 2019, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Steven Weber and Amit Elazari forecast cybersecurity in 2024 to illuminate what’s at stake today. (A “Discover Cal” lecture.)

Two Talks: Incorporating Sense-making Into Descriptions of Information Systems and Scenarios and Issues in “Send Computation to the Data” Repository Models

Nov 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India

Nov 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 6:00 pm

Requiring biometric authentication excluded and inconenienced legitimate beneficiaries of a social protection program.

ABCs of Information: Content, Context, Relevance, and other Challenges

Nov 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How could we evolve a more satisfactory tool-kit of concepts and terms as a stronger basis for information studies?

Intimate and Accountable Reconfigurations of Social Platforms

Oct 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How might online spaces be reconfigured against harassment and abuse?

Engage, Design, Examine: Five Years of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy

Oct 22, 2019, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

A festive celebration of five years of CTSP, with a showcase of selected projects from the past five years.

Community Data Science Approaches to Digital Gun Violence Prevention

Oct 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The promises and challenges of using AI to help prevent violence based on social media content and engagement.

Simplifying and Accelerating Data Exploration

Oct 18, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How could interactive data exploration tools be redesigned to give deeper insights more easily and quickly?

The New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Oct 17, 2019, 12:59 pm to 5:30 pm

Dr. Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity.

Photo courtesy of Jessie Hodge https://flic.kr/p/em8u7G

I School Meet-up in DC

Oct 16, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

I School students and alumni are invited to a meet-up and happy hour to meet new friends and mingle with old.

Mind Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates

Oct 16, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

What people think machines can know about the mind, and why their beliefs matter

Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)

CANCELED: Archiving the Non-Organizational Born-Digital: The Challenges Posed by Material from Individuals, Communities, Social Movements, and Events

Oct 11, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.

This School’s Social Mission: The Early Days

Oct 4, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

This School was founded in 1918 on a strong social agenda; Professor Buckland will review the past 101 years of its mission.

From Smart Phones to Smart Students

Oct 2, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Distraction versus learning with mobile devices in the classroom and student success

101st Birthday Celebration

Sep 27, 2019, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 101st birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Social Impact Un-Pitch Day 2019

Sep 26, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Join CTSP and IMSA to brainstorm ideas for projects that address the challenges of technology, society, and policy.

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