Events

Upcoming Events

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.

Women Leaders in Tech: Shattering Ceilings and Scaling Cliffs

Apr 24, 2019, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

A panel of women in senior leadership roles in the technology sector discuss their experiences in an industry that continues to be largely male-dominated.

The I School in 2019: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

Apr 26, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Dean AnnaLee Saxenian looks back at her 15 years as dean and discusses scenarios for the future.

New York City I School Meet-Up

May 2, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

I School students and alumni are invited to a meet-up and happy hour to meet new friends and mingle with old.

Information Access Seminar: Clifford Lynch

May 10, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Working the Double Bottom Line: The Promise and Limits of Social Enterprises in the Shadow of AI

May 13, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

A conversation about “humans in the loop” who invisibly deliver on-demand task-based services and the lives of the people paid to train artificial intelligence.

MIMS Final Project Showcase

May 16, 2019, 4:00 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 outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

Machine Learning for the Developing World using Mobile Communication Metadata

May 17, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

School of Information May 2019 Commencement

May 19, 2019, 10:00 am

Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker Geoff Nunberg, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Awards.

Previous Events

Persistent Bias Among Local Election Officials

Jan 17, 2018, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm

An audit study of the 2016 election confirms ethnic bias by local election officials.

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 21, 2017, 5:00 pm to 8:00 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.

Mind-Reading Machine Project Showcase

Dec 12, 2017, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Can a machine know the inner workings of a person’s mind? Drop in and check out student projects that push the boundaries of this emerging field, at the intersection of machine learning, philosophy, and pervasive biosensing.

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Portfolio Review Night

Dec 6, 2017, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

A special opportunity for professionals in product management, UX design or research, data science, or data visualization to meet new talent and share their expertise with the I School.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 6, 2017, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Natural Language Processing Poster Presentations

Dec 5, 2017, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Join us for the final project poster presentations from the course Info 259. Natural Language Processing.

Applied Machine Learning Project Presentations

Dec 5, 2017, 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Student projects using machine learning to answer interesting and novel questions from a variety of real data sets.

N of Many Ones: Creating Space for Alternative Data Flows

Dec 4, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dawn Nafus is a senior research scientist at Intel Labs, where she researches cultures of quantification and health and environmental sensing.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 4, 2017, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Bibliographical Access to Anything and Year in Review and Preview

Dec 1, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Project Presentations: Lean/Agile Product Management

Dec 1, 2017, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Final project presentations for the course Info 290M. Lean/Agile Product Management.

If Data Sharing is the Answer, What is the Question?

Nov 17, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Christine Borgman is Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA.

Camille François on Cybersecurity and Democracy

Nov 16, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Ph.D. Research Reception

Nov 15, 2017, 4:10 pm to 8:00 pm

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

Michael Koved, Head of Analytics, Marketing Analytics

Clearing the Clutter: An Overview of the Marketing Analytics Ecosystem

Nov 14, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

A topical overview of the marketing ecosystem and the connectivity between the marketing technology stack, the data utilized, data generated, and useful metrics.