Events

Upcoming Events

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Infrastructures, Assemblages, and Ecosystems

Oct 7, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.

Contexts, Works, and Catalogs

Oct 7, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Michael Buckland & Wayne de Fremery propose context-based changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery.

Citizen Clinic Pizza Information Session

Oct 11, 2022, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Citizen Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

Book cover: “The Political Lives of Information Information” by Janaki Srinivasan

The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India

Oct 12, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

Natural Language Processing Seminar with Alex Tamkin

Oct 14, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Who Broke Mechanical Turk?

Oct 14, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Crowdsourcing data has recently become mostly unusable. Catherine Marshall uncovers what’s happening.

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Restorative Justice Workshop

Oct 21, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.

Student Progress Reports

Oct 21, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Jeff Hancock

Oct 26, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jeff Hancock is a leading expert on technology’s role in deception and trust. Hancock is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in Communication.

104th Birthday Celebration

Oct 28, 2022, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 104th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Stewardship Lecture #3

Nov 4, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Jessica Hullman

Nov 9, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jessica Hullman is a leading expert in information visualization and uncertainty. Hullman is an information scientist and computer scientist by training, and an associate professor at Northwestern University.

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Kate Starbird

Nov 16, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Kate Starbird is a leading expert on how people use social media to seek, share, and make sense of information and misinformation. Starbird’s training is in technology, media, and society, with an emphasis on HCI, and she is an associate professor at the University of Washington.

Student Final Reports

Nov 18, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: David Rand

Nov 30, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

David Rand is a leading expert in the psychology of misinformation. Rand is a systems biologist and psychologist and runs MIT’s Human Cooperation Lab.

Cybersecurity Fall 2022 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 7, 2022, 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 2022 Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 15, 2022, 5:00 pm to 8:00 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.