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Upcoming Events

Aditya Parameswaran
Simplifying and Accelerating Data Exploration
Oct 18, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How could interactive data exploration tools be redesigned to give deeper insights more easily and quickly?
Desmond U. Patton
Community Data Science Approaches to Digital Gun Violence Prevention
Oct 18, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
The promises and challenges of using AI to help prevent violence based on social media content and engagement.
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Engage, Design, Examine: Five Years of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy
Oct 22, 2019, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
A festive celebration of five years of CTSP, with a showcase of selected projects from the past five years.
Niloufar Salehi
Intimate and Accountable Reconfigurations of Social Platforms
Oct 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
How might online spaces be reconfigured against harassment and abuse?
John Chuang
Schools of Information: Distinctions, Opportunities, and Responsibilities
Nov 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
An informal discussion with John Chuang, associate dean and head of school.
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Denver Meet-up
Nov 13, 2019, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames
Author conversation on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child”
Nov 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Morgan Ames discusses the legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and our refusal to learn from its failure.
Clifford Lynch
Information Access Seminar: Clifford Lynch
Dec 6, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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School of Information Winter 2020 Commencement
Jan 13, 2020, 1:00 pm
Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of capstone awards.

Previous Events

Doug Tygar
Adversarial Machine Learning
Apr 26, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Doug Tygar is professor of information and computer science who works in the areas of computer security, privacy, and electronic commerce.
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DataEDGE 2018
Apr 24 2018 - 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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Addressing Social Media Harm in the Internet Age
Apr 23, 2018, 2:10 pm to 4:00 pm
How do we address social media’s role in harm and conflict?
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Reasons and Rights to be Brave: Rescripting Search to Respect the Right to Truth
Apr 20, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It With Fire
Apr 20, 2018, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Nicholas Weaver explains why cryptocurrencies must die.
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Two Presentations: PrivSec-F1: Compliance Focused Toolkit and Using CAPTCHAs to Measure Internet Fragmentation
Apr 13, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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New York MIDS Happy Hour
Apr 3, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
MIDS students and alumni are invited to a fun happy hour.
Juliana Schroeder
Mistaking Minds and Machines: How Speech Affects Dehumanization and Anthropomorphism
Mar 22, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Recent research explores how the voice can affect the likelihood of mistaking a person for a machine or a machine for a person.
Niloufar Salehi
Design for Collective Action
Mar 21, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Niloufar Salehi introduces social computing systems to support collective action.
Jon Kleinberg
Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness
Mar 19, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
What does it mean for algorithmic classification to be fair, and how can we promote algorithmic fairness?
InfoCamp 2018
InfoCamp Berkeley 2018
Mar 17, 2018, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
The premier student-run conference for the information community, with a focus on augmenting society and the vanishing divide between digital and physical worlds.
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Consumer Law for the 21st Century
Mar 16, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
The Internet of Things will be tethered, blurring the lines between physical goods, digital goods, and digital services.
Ethan Fast
Capturing Human Behavior and Language for Interactive Systems
Mar 14, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
We imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors, but today’s systems fall short of these visions.
Stephen Abrams
The Means Don’t Quantify the Ends: Criteria and Metrics for Evaluating Digital Preservation Success
Mar 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Cultural preservation is a form of communication with the future. So how can we measure its success?
Clifford Lynch
Stewardship of the Cultural Record: How do we approximate cultural “production”?
Mar 9, 2018, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
The challenge of cultural stewardship when everyone is a content producer.
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A Conversation on Big Data, Surveillance, and Policing
Mar 8, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Catherine Crump & Andrew Guthrie Ferguson discuss issues related to surveillance, policing, and civil liberties.
Now is the moment — BIG GIVE — 3.8.18
Big Give
Mar 7, 2018, 9:00 pm to Mar 8, 2018, 9:00 pm
Seize the moment during Big Give, Berkeley’s annual fundraising event.
Nazanin Andalibi
Self-Disclosure and Response Behaviors in Socially Stigmatized Contexts on Social Media
Mar 7, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How can social media platforms better foster well-being when people experience distress and stigma?
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WiDS Berkeley: The Global Women in Data Science Conference
Mar 5, 2018, 8:30 am to 5:15 pm
A one-day technical conference bringing together data scientists and professionals from around the globe to discuss the latest research and applications of data science.
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Three Progress Reports
Mar 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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