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

Web Search and Information Credibility Analysis

Friday, October 16, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Predicting Social Security Numbers From Public Data

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.

Play for All – All Children, All Abilities

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Resume Workshop and Alumni Mixer

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Design for Future Reference Service

Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Reading Ahead: Considering The Book’s Future in the iPod Era

Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

No Bull, No Spin: Comparing Public Tags with other Descriptive User Metadata

Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Seven Contexts for Service System Design

Thursday, September 24, 2009, 8:00 am - 9:30 am

Creativity in Feist

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.

Finding Things You Can't Read: Interactive Cross-Language Search for Monolingual Users

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.

rssCloud Meetup 2.0

Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Back to School Barbecue

Sunday, August 30, 2009, 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.

Building Computational Instruments for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Friday, August 28, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access

Friday, August 28, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:15 pm

Complete video is now available from the I School's recent conference on the opportunities and risks of the proposed Google Books settlement.

Toward a New Legal Framework for Cybersecurity

Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

What role should the law play in the creation of more secure or trustworthy networks? Deirdre Mulligan sets forth a new legal framework for cybersecurity.

Chicago skyline (photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/atelier_tee/475960290/">Terence Faircloth</a>)

Alumni and Friends Reception

Sunday, July 12, 2009, 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 16, 2009, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2009 with student speakers, keynote speaker John Markoff of the New York Times, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.

Master's 2009 Final Project Showcase

Thursday, May 14, 2009, 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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

Interface Aesthetics Class Exhibition

Monday, May 11, 2009, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Showcase of student projects from the Interface Aesthetics class, applying graphic design principles to both print and electronic media.

Mixing and Remixing Information: Open House

Monday, May 11, 2009, 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

Posters and demos of student projects from the "Mixing and Remixing Information" course, which reuse or recombine information to create something new.