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Matrix on Point: Humanitarian Technologies
Sep 26, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?
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Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Looking Around the Corner
Sep 27, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.
Hany Farid
Disinformation and Deepfakes
Sep 28, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
We are awash in disinformation of lies, conspiracies, and now a new form of manipulated media — so-called deepfakes. Hany Farid explains how deepfakes are created and how to tell truth from fiction.
Arya McCarthy
Kilolanguage Learning, Projection, and Translation
Sep 30, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing
Clifford Lynch
Stewardship: The Scope of the Challenge
Sep 30, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Alex Tamkin
Natural Language Processing Seminar with Alex Tamkin
Oct 14, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm
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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.
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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.
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Student Progress Reports
Oct 21, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Jeff Hancock
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.
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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.
Clifford Lynch
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.
Jessica Hullman
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.
Kate Starbird
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.
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Student Final Reports
Nov 18, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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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.

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Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)
Digital Privacy Training
Nov 13, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Privacy-protection measures from a project training librarians as community privacy advocates.
Rochelle Terman
Backlash: Defiance, Human Rights, and the Politics of Shame
Nov 12, 2020, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
New research shows that “naming and shaming” can be counterproductive and even dangerous.
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CLTC 2020 Research Exchange, Day 2: Protecting and Securing a More Inclusive Society Online
Nov 12, 2020, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
How can technology be designed and deployed to make cybersecurity more accessible to underserved populations?
Elaine Sedenberg
Facebook: Integrating Research into Real-World Policy
Nov 6, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Elaine Sedenberg leads global research and academic engagement for Facebook’s Privacy and Data Policy team.
Doug May
Selling the Value of Data-centric Solutions
Nov 5, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Industry-specific Databricks case studies and an introduction to selling the value of data-centric solutions.
Peter Schwartz
In Conversation with Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning, Salesforce
Nov 4, 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Peter Schwartz is one of the world’s most experienced, insightful, and entertaining analysts of the digital revolution.
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Libraries and Campus IT: Collaborations with a Purpose
Oct 30, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Salwa Ismail is associate university librarian for digital initiatives and information technology and associate CIO for UC Berkeley Library.
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AI Race(s) to the Bottom?
Oct 27, 2020, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
AI policy experts discuss the surprising ways that industries are approaching AI development more cautiously and cooperatively.
Daniel V. Pitti
The Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative (SNAC): What, Who, and How
Oct 23, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
An overview of the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative, its past, and its future.
Josh Kallmer
What’s at Stake in Digital Fragmentation?
Oct 22, 2020, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
A conversation with Josh Kallmer, head of global public policy and government relations at Zoom
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InfoCamp 2020
Oct 17, 2020, 9:30 am to Oct 18, 2020, 1:30 pm
The 11th annual InfoCamp is themed around living through a unique time in history. The two-day event, led by IMSA, features an ideathon and a speaker series. The event is free and open to everyone in the information community.
Clifford Lynch
The Re-emergence of Scientific Nationalism, The Growth of Supra-Institutional Collaborations, and Implications for Scholarly Communication: Conflicting Trends
Oct 16, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
CTSP: Center for Technology, Society, and Policy
CTSP Social Impact Un-Pitch Day
Oct 15, 2020, 5:10 pm to 6:00 pm
Join CTSP and IMSA to brainstorm ideas for projects that address the challenges of technology, society, and policy.
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The Refusal Conference
Oct 14 2020 - All-day event
A virtual conference exploring organized technology refusal from historical and contemporary vantage points
Timothy Tangherlini
Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: An Automated Pipeline for Narrative Framework Discovery on COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Oct 9, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Francois Callewaert
A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist
Oct 8, 2020, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
A typical day in the life of a data scientist, with a demo of data engineering, data analysis, and data science using Spark SQL, Spark ML, Delta, and Redash.
Clifford Lynch
Continuity of the Research Enterprise During the Pandemic
Oct 2, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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102nd Birthday Celebration: a Virtual Celebration of Women Leaders Past, Present, and Future
Sep 25, 2020, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Join us to celebrate the history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.
Clifford Lynch
The Impact, Priorities and Prospects for Sustained Infrastructure Investment in Scholarly Communication
Sep 18, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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Contexts
Sep 11, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

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