Events

Upcoming events

Littlest Bear Virtual 5K Run/Walk 2025

Monday, July 21, 2025 - Sunday, July 27, 2025

A fun run/walk/roll for the I School community.

Cybersecurity Summer 2025 Capstone Project Showcase

Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

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

graphics of data analysis, data visualization and other data science tools

Data Science Summer 2025 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, August 14, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

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.

Previous events

Studies in Collective Memory: Towards Computational History through Large Scale Text Mining

Friday, March 2, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Social Substrates: People and the data they make

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

David A. Shamma is a media artist and research scientist studying creative expression and sharing at Yahoo! Research.

Multilingual Social Tagging of Art Images: Cultural Bridges and Diversity

Friday, February 17, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Beyond Global: Learning from Many Voices

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Chris Riley is a designer and global communications strategist and the founder of Studioriley. He explores the relationship between business and culture through brand strategy and communications design.

Rebecca MacKinnon <br /><i>(photo: Brooke Bready)</i>

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 12:40 pm - 2:00 pm

A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy, and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon addresses the fundamental and urgent question of how technology should support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users.

Update on the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project

Friday, February 10, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

The Untold Story of How Billions in Government Savings is Likely to Result from Current Administration IT Reforms

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

New ARL Best Practices in Fair Use

Monday, February 6, 2012, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Half-day workshop with new insights into how librarians can apply fair use principles to resolve copyright challenges.

Scholarly Notes and Digital Humanities

Friday, February 3, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

The Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: An Information Issue

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.

Classical and Textual Case-based Reasoning

Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Casting a Wider Net: Delivering News on the Censored Internet

Friday, January 27, 2012, 1:10 pm - 2:30 pm

Karl Kathuria of the BBC World Service discusses the challenges of broadcasting the news to countries with governmental Internet censorship, like Iran and China.

Howard Rheingold<br />(photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2121488118/">Joi Ito</a>)

Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy

Monday, January 23, 2012, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy

Surveying the Changing Cultural Record

Friday, January 20, 2012, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

MIMS Application Deadline

Friday, January 6, 2012, 11:59 pm

CONNECT Code-A-Thon

Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:00 am, – Friday, December 16, 2011, 6:00 pm

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Information Systems & Service Design: Project Presentations

Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Monday, December 5, 2011, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
(Exhibition repeats on Wednesday, December 7.)

Ph.D. Application Deadline

Friday, December 2, 2011, 11:59 pm