Events

Upcoming events

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.

A festive picnic on the grass in front of South Hall

I School Community Picnic

Sunday, August 17, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A festive summer gathering for I School students, alumni, staff, faculty, and friends.

Previous events

Historical Hypermedia: An alternative history of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 and implications for e-research

Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

2010 Regents' Lecture, with Charles van den Heuvel

Small Media Initiative

Friday, October 15, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The Internet has become a vital communication tool for Iranian dissidents and activists. Mahmood Enaya presents his experiences using small media to improve the flow of information in Iran.

School of Information Career Fair

Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

For I School students and alumni

Testing the Limits of Social Media Ownership

Friday, October 8, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

New research uncovers people's attitudes and practices about content ownership in the realm of social media.

Man Over Machine: the Next Phase of the Web

Monday, October 4, 2010, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

The human brain can only process 5 to 9 things at one time. Deep Nishar, vice president of LinkedIn, asks how we can cope with and synthesize the oncoming deluge of data.

Knight News Challenge Information Session

Monday, October 4, 2010, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Learn more about the Knight News Challenge, a contest to spur innovation in the delivery of information and news using digital media.

The Social Networks and Archival Context Project

Friday, October 1, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Friday afternoon seminar

Network Pattern Recognition in Large Humanities Corpora

Friday, September 24, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Pamela Samuelson discusses the proposed Google Book Search (GBS) settlement as a way to achieve copyright reform through the class action settlement process, at CITRIS Research Exchange lunch lecture.

Interface as Thing: Annotation and Visualization of Historical Evidence in e-Research

Friday, September 17, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Charles van den Heuvel, Regents' Lecturer

Events and Periods as Concepts for Organizing Historical Knowledge

Friday, September 10, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Back to School Barbecue

Sunday, August 29, 2010, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

All I School students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their families are invited to welcome our newest class to the I School family.

New Infrastructure and Instruments for the Human Sciences, and Implications for the Locus of Research and the Evolution of Disciplines in the Academy

Friday, August 27, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Alumni and Friends Reception

Sunday, June 27, 2010, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Reception for friends and alumni of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and the School of Librarianship, at the annual ALA Conference

School of Information Commencement

Saturday, May 15, 2010, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2010 with student speakers, keynote speaker Tim Brown of IDEO, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.

Master's 2010 Final Project Showcase

Thursday, May 13, 2010, 4:00 pm - 8:10 pm

Graduating master's students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems

Information Visualization Showcase

Monday, May 10, 2010, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

New and compelling visualizations to enhance comprehension and analysis of complex data. The presentations are as visually interesting as they are informative.

User Interface Design Showcase

Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Joint final presentations for three Berkeley user-interface design courses

The Digitization of Science and the Degradation of the Scientific Method

Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

As the scientific enterprise becomes increasingly computational, new techniques are necessary for transparency and trustworthiness.

Mixing and Remixing Information Open House

Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm