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Upcoming Events

Aditya Parameswaran
Democratizing Data Science
Oct 17, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Making it easy for individuals and teams to manage, analyze, and draw insights from large datasets.
Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)
Digital Privacy for Librarians (and Others)
Oct 19, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How librarians can support digital privacy practices in their communities.
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Dinner & Data: Open Data, Open Government, and Social Impact
Oct 24, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
A seminar-style conversation led by Alan Steremberg (Weather Underground co-founder and former Presidential Innovation Fellow) and Corinna Zarek (Mozilla Senior Tech Policy Fellow and former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer). Advance registration required.
CTSP: Center for Technology, Society, and Policy
Digital Security Crash Course
Oct 25, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Hands-on digital security training for people at all levels of expertise.
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Florilegia: Organizing Scholarly Annotations in PDFs
Oct 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Sendhil Mullainathan
Equitable Algorithms: A Social Welfare Function Approach
Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm
Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how and why algorithms can be designed for fairness.
Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Detecting Discrimination: What Eddie Murphy Teaches Us about Theory and Method
Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Issa Kohler-Hausmann studies the methodological and theoretical issues in stating and proving discrimination claims.
Jeff Jonas
GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility
Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.
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Denver Data Science Meet-up
Nov 5, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
MIDS students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.
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Dinner & Data: Privacy, Security, and Fairness: the Challenges of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Nov 7, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
A seminar-style conversation led by Colleen Chien, former White House Senior Advisor on Intellectual Property and Innovation, and Terah Lyons, former Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.
Shoshanna Zuboff (photo by Sascha Pflaeging)
How We Fight Surveillance Capitalism
Nov 9, 2018, 12:10 pm to 2:00 pm
Workshop with Professor Shoshana Zuboff
Cathryn Carson
Data in the Higher Education Curriculum
Nov 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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Dinner & Data: Data, Technology, and Governance for Public Good
Nov 14, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
A seminar-style conversation led by Kristie Canegallo, former Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation; DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist; and Nicole Wong, former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.
Women in Tech: The Future of AI
Women in Tech: The Future of AI
Nov 16, 2018, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
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School of Information 2019 Winter Commencement
Jan 12, 2019, 2:00 pm
Honor summer and fall I School graduates with keynote speaker, student speaker, and presentation of the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.
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DataEDGE 2019
Apr 23 2019 - All-day event
Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.

Previous Events

Prabhat, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Deep Learning for Science
May 23, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Deep learning has enabled major breakthroughs in the fields of computer vision, speech recognition, and control systems.
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School of Information May 2017 Commencement
May 13, 2017, 12:00 pm
Honor the class of 2017 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.
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MIMS Final Project Showcase
May 11, 2017, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select one outstanding project from each track for the James R. Chen Award.
DataEDGE
DataEDGE 2017
May 8 2017 - All-day event
Are you and your organization taking advantage of the opportunities created by the flood of new data? The DataEDGE conference will bring you up to speed on the data revolution.
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Data Mining and Analytics Project Presentations
May 4, 2017, 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Final project presentations for the course Info 290T. Data Mining and Analytics.
Frank L. Smith III
Quantum Technologies and International Security
May 3, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
What quantum technologies are on the horizon and how will they influence the future of international security?
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Information Visualization Final Project Showcase
May 3, 2017, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Class projects in information visualization.
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Data Mining and Analytics Project Presentations
May 2, 2017, 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Final project presentations for the course Info 290T. Data Mining and Analytics.
Ignacio Arnaldo
AI for Enterprise Security: The Challenges From a Data Scientist’s Perspective
May 2, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
The challenges of using advanced analytics to monitor cybersecurity threats.
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Data Science Capstone Project Showcase
May 1, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select two outstanding projects for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.
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Data-Intensive International Development Poster Session
May 1, 2017, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm
Analyses of real-world data with the potential benefit the world’s poor.
Cathy Marshall
Personal Digital Archives: From Accumulation to Legacy
Apr 28, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor at the Texas A&M University Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.
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Digital Dissent: Commons Conversations: Technology and Public Life in Changing Times
Apr 25, 2017, 6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
A panel discussion of the role of digital media in political action, advocacy, and public life, from the Berkeley campus to the national stage.
Tom Lowenthal
Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Journalists?
Apr 25, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
How is the information revolution affecting the future of journalism and an informed society?
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Hands-On Biosensing Demo at Cal Day
Apr 22, 2017, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Join the BioSENSE research group and experience Virtual Reality while exploring signals from your body like heart beat, brainwaves, and more, at Cal’s annual Open House.
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Mapping & Visualization of Cultural Data: Native California, Mosques in China, Maritime Buddhism
Apr 21, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Mapping and visualization of transdisciplinary data with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.
Tarleton Gillespie
At Scale and under Pressure: How Social Media Moderate, Choreograph, and Censor Public Discourse
Apr 19, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How should social media police inappropriate speech and anti-social behavior?
Serge Egelman
From Theory to Practice: Empowering Users to Make Privacy Decisions in Mobile Environments
Apr 19, 2017, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm
How can your phone’s operating system help you make smart decisions about personal privacy?
Ron Deibert
Cyber Espionage and Civil Society: A Silent Epidemic
Apr 18, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Ron Deibert is director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and a leading scholar of global security, ICTs, and human rights.
Photo courtesty of Nic McPhee (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/385btc
Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS): a toolkit supporting humanities research
Apr 14, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Berkeley Prosopography Services is an open-source digital toolkit supporting prosopographical research and generating interactive visualizations of the connections that link individuals.

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