Events

Upcoming Events

From Whitewashing to Greenwashing: PR’s Approach to Climate Science

Oct 6, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Greenpeace recently declared that we are living in “the golden age of greenwashing.” Paul Duguid looks at how we got there.

Photo of Yoshi Kohno, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington.

Computer Security and Privacy Research: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Oct 11, 2023, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm

Tadayoshi Kohno charts the evolution of computer security over the past 20 years and makes some predictions for the future.

Text, Glyph, Inscription, Chart: Knowledge Production in the Origin of the Alphabet

Oct 13, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Johanna Drucker is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at UCLA and is internationally known for her work in digital humanities.

105th Birthday Celebration

Oct 20, 2023, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 105th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Intelligence Augmentation: Effective Human-AI Interaction to Supercharge Scientific Research

Oct 25, 2023, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm

Daniel S. Weld outlines the principles and pitfalls of effective human-AI interaction.

Cybersecurity Futures 2030 - photo of a slide presntation

Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Global Insights to Anticipate and Address Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Challenges

Oct 27, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cybersecurity Futures 2030 is a foresight-focused scenario-planning exercise considering how cybersecurity is set to transform over the next five to seven years.

Cybersecurity Fall 2023 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 13, 2023, 4:00 pm to 6:30 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.

Data Science Fall 2023 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 21, 2023, 5:00 pm to 7:30 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.

Previous Events

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web

Feb 27, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration

Feb 23, 2009, 4:00 pm

Student Progress Reports and iSchools Conference report

Feb 20, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Feb 18, 2009, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Netroots Rising: How a Citizen Army of Bloggers and Online Activists Is Changing American Politics

Feb 18, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Authors Lowell Feld and Nate Wilcox give first-hand accounts of the burgeoning power of the netroots to determine the outcome of political contests, with a focus on the role of citizen activists in Barack Obama's election, Jim Webb's 2006 Senate victory, and the fall of Tom DeLay.

The Bamboo Planning Project: Developing "Cyberinfrastructure" for the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Social Sciences

Feb 13, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Design Futures Lecture: Erik Adigard

Feb 11, 2009, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Co-Evolution of the Mobile Phone and Users in Rural Uganda

Feb 11, 2009, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Google Geo Developer Workshop

Feb 9, 2009, 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm

A hands-on workshop devoted to Google Geo APIs. See demos of what you can do with Google Maps, Mapplets, and Earth, and work on your own project.

iConference 2009

Feb 8, 2009, 8:00 am to Feb 11, 2009, 5:00 pm

Judging a Book by its Cover: Online Previews and Book Sales

Feb 6, 2009, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things

Feb 4, 2009, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Oliver Guenther is Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. He discusses the privacy implications of the global IT infrastructure for physical objects carrying RFID tags with a unique Electronic Product Code.