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

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.

E-Ris (E-Resources for Industry Studies)

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

Google Book Search and the Future of Access to Scholarly Books

Monday, February 8, 2010, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' spring lecture series on Digital Technology in Humanities Scholarship.

iConference 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 8:00 am, – Saturday, February 6, 2010, 5:00 pm

The fifth annual iConference, held at the University of Illinois, will examine the impacts of the iSchool movement. The conference will include presentations from four I School students will feature professor Marti Hearst as a keynote speaker.

Working with Geospatial Data Using Open Source Tools

Monday, January 25, 2010, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This workshop will introduce techniques for working with and mapping geospatial data in a variety of formats

An Overview of Gov 2.0

Monday, January 25, 2010, 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

Laurel Ruma is an expert on "Government 2.0" and the open government movement.

Showcase: Information Organization Lab

Thursday, December 10, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Experimental student projects from the Information Organization Lab course. Come see Vannevar Bush’s Memex implemented using Delicious, Hulu meets the semantic web, a prescription drug lookup interface, a Twitter recommendation engine and many more.

A student project from the 2008 Tangible User Interfaces course

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Try out students' interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
(Exhibition repeats on Tuesday, December 8.)

Online Admissions Chat

Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm

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

Revealing a web of knowledge: mining quotations and ideas from a very large digital library of books

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

A new approach to the automatic data mining of repeated passages in scanned books, magazines, and newspapers

Data as Evidence

Friday, November 13, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Locating Ourselves: Delving into place-based storytelling

Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Leslie Rule, KQED
Design Futures Lecture

Very Large Scale Preservation; Free Speech and Access to Knowledge

Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Revolution Will be Digitized: How IT is Affecting Business and Competition

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.

The Future of Sharism: Social Media's Impact in China

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

Prospective Student Open House

Thursday, October 29, 2009, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

An open house and information session for prospective I School students

Computer Mediated Transactions

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.

Berkeley Prosopography Services and CollectionSpace

Friday, October 23, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

School of Information Career Fair

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm