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Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Data and Artificial Intelligence

Jan 21, 2021, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Denny Lee is a developer advocate at Databricks

Jan 22, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Recent moral panic around Internet fragmentation hides the uncomfortable truth: the Internet has always been affected by political realities. Our measurements reveal a multi-polar Internet.

Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy

Jan 22, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How team identity boosts worker engagement in a gig economy.

How New Information Can Change Old Social Norms

Jan 25, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Can widespread misperceptions about others’ beliefs sustain social norms? How do social norms change when new information becomes available?

Science Nationalism

Jan 29, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Emerging science nationalism and its implications for the research enterprise and the global system of scholarly communication.

Cash Transfers at Scale

Jan 29, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Cash transfers to people in extreme poverty have become a policy tool of choice; should policy-makers go all the way to Universal Basic Income?

Securing the Digital Supply Chain

Feb 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

David S. H. Rosenthal is the co-founder of the LOCKSS program at Stanford University.

The Future of Data Science and Machine Learning at Scale: A Look at MLflow, Delta Lake, and Emerging Tools

Feb 10, 2021, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Jules S. Damji surveys emerging technologies to address the challenges of data at scale

Information: A Historical Companion. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton

Historicizing Information

Feb 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Information Access Seminar: Catherine Marshall

Feb 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Seeking Research: A State of the Art

Mar 5, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Post-Covid Issues

Mar 12, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information Access Seminar: Leslie Johnston

Mar 19, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Leslie Johnston is director of digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives.

Information Access Seminar: Ron Day

Apr 23, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Post-Covid Planning

Apr 30, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Previous 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.

Moving Towards Open Scholarship: UC, Elsevier and All the Rest

Apr 19, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Jeff MacKie-Mason is the university librarian and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiations team, which carried out the recent negotiations with Elsevier.

Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security

Apr 17, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dr. Andrew L. Brooks is the Chief Data Scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

In DOCAM’s Footsteps

Apr 12, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm

North American premiere of In DOCAM’s Footsteps, a new documentary film with scenes shot in South Hall.

Augmented Reality and The Public

Apr 12, 2019, 3:10 pm to 4:00 pm

Instagram filters, Google Map’s live directions, and Pokémon Go demonstrate how augmented reality enhances “real life.”

Basic Needs, Access, and Marketplace Structures

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

AI, Professionals, and Professional Work: The Practice of Law with Automated Decision Support Technologies

Mar 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How technical systems employing algorithms are shaping and displacing human decision-making.

AI in the Open World: Technology & Responsibility

Mar 20, 2019, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Eric Horvitz is a technical fellow and director at Microsoft Research.

InfoCamp Berkeley 2019

Mar 16, 2019, 9:00 am to 6:30 pm

The premier student-run conference for the information community.

Community-Owned Data Publishing: California Digital Library’s new partnership with Dryad

Mar 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Big Give

Mar 13, 2019, 9:00 pm to Mar 14, 2019, 9:00 pm

Seize the moment during Big Give, Berkeley’s annual fundraising event.

Shoshanna Zuboff (photo by Sascha Pflaeging)

How We Fight Surveillance Capitalism

Mar 12, 2019, 2:40 pm to 4:30 pm

Workshop with Professor Shoshana Zuboff

The Accuracy, Fairness, and Limits of Predicting Recidivism

Mar 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

When algorithms are used for predicting recidivism, do they make the criminal justice system more fair and accurate, or do they perpetuate racial bias?

Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development

Mar 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

WiDS Berkeley

Mar 4, 2019, 12:10 pm to 4:15 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.

Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data

Mar 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Reading for Bias: Computational Semantics and the Character of Racial Discourse

Feb 27, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Machine learning algorithms are not neutral observers of the world, but see what they are trained to see.

UCLA Library’s International Partnerships and Projects

Feb 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Feb 20, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The One Laptop per Child project failed. So why do the same utopian visions that inspired it still motivate other projects to “disrupt” education and development?

What’s New with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?

Feb 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

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