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

Why Do We Have to Pay People to Work?

Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Can the information industry import the focus and attention of video games and the massive collaboration of online role-playing games into the workplace?

Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities in the Age of Cyberinfrastructure

Friday, April 23, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Hackathon: Meaningful Ontology of Location

Friday, April 23, 2010, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Next Generation Teaching and Learning Symposium

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 8:30 am - 7:00 pm

A one-day conference on emerging technology for student-centered teaching and learning, with speakers from academia, industry, standards bodies, and educational institutions.

Knowledge management in the times of the IT revolution

Friday, April 16, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

I School Reception and Lecture, Featuring Geoff Nunberg

Thursday, April 15, 2010, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

A great chance for I School alumni, students, faculty, and friends to reconnect at a pre-talk reception. Geoff Nunberg, I School professor and the resident linguist on NPR's Fresh Air, offers his always interesting and entertaining insights in a lecture on "A (very) brief history of 'information'; or, what are we all doing here, anyway?"

Regulating Reputational Systems

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Eric Goldman is an Internet lawyer and law professor at Santa Clara University

Secure, Unsure, or Ignore? Economics of Information Security

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Information Policy and Politics in the Obama Administration

Friday, April 9, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Search Tools Consulting: The Average Lifespan of a Web Page

Friday, April 2, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Stepping Twice Into the Same River: Digital Preservation

Friday, March 19, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Entrepreneurship as an Extreme Sport

Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Tina Seelig shares surprising stories of true entrepreneurs overcoming obstacles, demonstrating that by creatively challenging assumptions, breaking the rules, and disregarding the impossible you can bring remarkable ideas to life.

CalSizzle Kick-off

Monday, March 15, 2010, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Information, Knowledge, and I-Studies

Friday, March 12, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Emerging Law & Policy Issues In Cloud Computing

Friday, March 12, 2010, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

Conference to explore emerging legal and policy issues regarding cloud computing. Speakers from government, corporations, academia, and law firms will discuss privacy concerns, regulatory issues, consumer protection, intellectual property questions, and best practices.

InfoCamp Berkeley

Saturday, March 6, 2010, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A one-day unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, and related fields.

A National Initiative for Technology-Mediated Social Participation

Friday, March 5, 2010, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Ben Shneiderman is the founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland at College Park and the author of Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies and Designing the User Interface.

School of Information Career Fair

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

For I School students and alumni

Bringing Lives to Light: The Biography Project

Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Business and Consumer Experience for Media in the 21st Century

Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Daniel Scheinman, general manager of the Cisco Media Solutions Group, is a long-time champion for developing new, network-based distribution models for digital content.