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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, October 4, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.

Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How the economics of trademarks contributed to the spread of modern notions of “information”.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

A community meet-up and happy hour for I School students, alumni, and guests.

Friday, October 18, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Deirdre K. Mulligan served in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy for the past 18 months as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm PDT

Who should make decisions about ethical and responsible technology deployments? And how do impacted communities make political claims over data technologies?

Friday, October 25, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

Friday, November 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

Friday, November 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Friday, November 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

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

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

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.

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.

Previous events

Friday, November 13, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Leslie Rule, KQED
Design Futures Lecture
Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology affects businesses and how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.
Friday, October 30, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Isaac Mao is a venture capitalist, social entrepreneur, and blogger and the co-founder of CNBlog.org
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
An open house and information session for prospective I School students
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
What does the ubiquity of computer-mediated transactions mean for economics? Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, discusses the implications for contractual efficiency, incentive alignment, data extraction and analysis, experimentation, personalization, and customization.
Friday, October 23, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Friday, October 16, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Unexpected privacy consequences in modern information economies, novel privacy risks associated with public information revelation, and ways that well-meaning information security policies can backfire.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Julian Warner, of Queen's University, Belfast, presents an information science perspective on the famous Feist vs. Rural ruling.
Friday, September 11, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A discussion of new multilingual, cross-lingual, speech recognition, and machine translation applications, including a user-centered evaluation of cross-language information retrieval.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm