Events

Upcoming Events

Policy and Security Landscapes Intertwined in a Global Environment

Aug 22, 2019, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Cybersecurity policy webinar with Audrey Plonk and Amit Elazari of Intel.

Aug 28, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Learn how Berkeley students are defending civil society organizations from cyberattacks, disinformation, and online abuse.

Machine Learning, Archives and Special Collections

Sep 6, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The most significant near-term applications for machine learning in archives and special collections.

I School Fall 2019 Meet-up: Celebrating Entrepreneurship

Sep 11, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Meet new friends and catch up with old on the rooftop deck of venture capital firm Accel

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.

Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing

Oct 9, 2019, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Discover how the Organization for Transformative Works built a model for non-corporate, user-driven, online participatory cultures.

Previous Events

It’s “Technically Fair” But You May Not Like It: Algorithmic Curation, Filtering, and Prediction Wrestles with Ethics and Public Opinion

Apr 30, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

What to do when software algorithms are designed for statistical fairness or legal compliance, but still seem unfair.

Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day

Apr 30, 2018, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm

The Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day will highlight student-led projects that apply tech and data for social good.

Emotion in Social Media

Apr 30, 2018, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

New findings about emotions in social media and their implications for social, behavioral, and data sciences.

Search Support for All Kinds of Evidence

Apr 27, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How might we develop a unified framework for the description, indexing, and discovery of all kinds of evidence resources?

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 26, 2018, 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.

Adversarial Machine Learning

Apr 26, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Doug Tygar is professor of information and computer science who works in the areas of computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce.

DataEDGE 2018

Apr 24 2018 - All-day event

Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.

Addressing Social Media Harm in the Internet Age

Apr 23, 2018, 2:10 pm to 4:00 pm

How do we address social media’s role in harm and conflict?

Reasons and Rights to be Brave: Rescripting Search to Respect the Right to Truth

Apr 20, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Image courtesy of btckeychain/Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/o3qhRn

Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It With Fire

Apr 20, 2018, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Nicholas Weaver explains why cryptocurrencies must die.

Two Presentations: PrivSec-F1: Compliance Focused Toolkit and Using CAPTCHAs to Measure Internet Fragmentation

Apr 13, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

New York MIDS Happy Hour

Apr 3, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

MIDS students and alumni are invited to a fun happy hour.

Mistaking Minds and Machines: How Speech Affects Dehumanization and Anthropomorphism

Mar 22, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Recent research explores how the voice can affect the likelihood of mistaking a person for a machine or a machine for a person.

Design for Collective Action

Mar 21, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Niloufar Salehi introduces social computing systems to support collective action.

Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness

Mar 19, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

What does it mean for algorithmic classification to be fair, and how can we promote algorithmic fairness?

InfoCamp Berkeley 2018

Mar 17, 2018, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

The premier student-run conference for the information community, with a focus on augmenting society and the vanishing divide between digital and physical worlds.

Consumer Law for the 21st Century

Mar 16, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Internet of Things will be tethered, blurring the lines between physical goods, digital goods, and digital services.