Events

Upcoming Events

101 Years of Women

Apr 3, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An informal discussion of women in the history and heritage of the School.

Information Access Seminar: Deirdre Mulligan

Apr 10, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan is an associate professor at the School of Information and the associate dean and Head of School

UC Berkeley’s Digital Lifecycle Program: Mass Digitization of Special Collections for Use and Preservation

Apr 17, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How the UC Berkeley Library is digitizing its rare and special historical collections.

Seminar Project Reports

Apr 24, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Student reports on e-commerce marketing, AI, and cloud information systems.

The Work of Ricky Erway: Applying Digital Technologies to Library Collections

May 1, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

A tribute to digital library pioneer Ricky Erway

MIMS Final Project Showcase

May 14, 2020, 4:00 pm to 7:45 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

DataEDGE 2020

Nov 10 2020 - 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

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.

Using Machine Learning to Understand Health Care Systems

Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how machine learning can improve our understanding of the health system itself.

Citizen Clinic Info Session

Oct 30, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Learn how the Citizen Clinic provides hands-on experience developing and implementing cybersecurity practices for politically-vulnerable organizations.

ECAI Workshop: Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage, and Opportunities of New Technology

Oct 27 2018 - All-day event

Florilegia: Organizing Scholarly Annotations in PDFs

Oct 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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.

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.

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.

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.

“I don't want to be a publisher!” Regulating liability for the sticky parts: An exploration of CDA Section 230, sex work, and user content

Oct 12, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Threats to information sharing, users, and free speech

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Foreshadow: Breaking the Virtual Memory Abstraction with Transient Out-of-Order Execution

Oct 10, 2018, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Ofir Weisse explains how the Foreshadow attack dismantles Intel's SGX security — previously considered the most secure feature of Intel chips — and also bypasses virtual machine isolation between users in the cloud.

Creating a Culture of Digital Transformation

Oct 8, 2018, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

Stephen Comstock is the CIO of CBS Interactive, the digital division of CBS.

Analyzing Our Past

Oct 5, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Zachary Bleemer is director of the University of California ClioMetric History Project.

Social Impact Un-Pitch Day

Oct 4, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Join CTSP and IMSA to brainstorm ideas for projects that address the challenges of technology, society, and policy.

Freedom and Ethics in the Era of Big Data

Oct 4, 2018, 12:45 pm to 2:00 pm

Peter Dabrock, chair of the German Ethics Council, explores the potential of big data to constrain the real-world exercise of freedom and self-determination.

Dinner & Data: The Role of Humans in Fostering Innovation

Oct 3, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by former White House advisor Tom Kalil and former United States Digital Service leader Jennifer Anastasoff. Advance registration required.