Events

How can breakthrough solutions be found for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces, simply by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future?

Uday Dandavate of SonicRim speaks at the semester's first Design Futures Lecture.

Information Access Seminar, with Clifford Lynch & Michael Buckland

A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and admissions staff and learn more about life at the I School.

Information Access Seminar, with Dave Lester, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

An unconference for researchers, teachers, learners, and education technology developers, to improve the use of technology to increase student engagement and bring about deeper learning.

Jonathan Spira explores how today’s tidal wave of information has dulled our senses and hampered innovation and productivity.

Honor the class of 2011 with student speakers, keynote speaker Reid Hoffman, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.

Graduating master's students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. An panel of judges will select one outstanding project from each track for the James R. Chen Award.

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

Try out students' interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
(Exhibition repeats on Wednesday, May 4.)

New media scholar Rhonda McEwen examines the context for the emergence of social media.

Explore the future of learning design, where we look to transcend learning with truly transformative experiences, with Clark Quinn, Ph.D.

Roger Dingledine is the project leader for Tor, a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around the world use the Internet in safety.

Pamela Samuelson explains why she thinks the failure of the Google Books Settlement was inevitable.

A special panel discussion on technology and poverty, with Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley computer science), Megan Smith (Google.org), Kentaro Toyama (I School & Microsoft Research, India), & Wayan Vota (Inveneo).

Reception to follow.