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Upcoming Events

Aug 25, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Clifford Lynch introduces the “age of algorithms” and suggests opportunities for future research.

Aug 28, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 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.

Reining in Online Abuses

Sep 5, 2017, 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm

Online platforms today are being used in deplorably diverse ways. How can technology companies allow the free flow of ideas while reining in abuses?

Creating a Culture of Digital Transformation

Sep 11, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

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

Towards Inclusive Tech

Sep 14, 2017, 9:00 am to Sep 15, 2017, 5:00 pm

A robust dialogue about how to build more inclusive technical education and workplaces.

Why the Future of Cybersecurity is Closer Than You Think

Sep 15, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:10 pm

Betsy Cooper is the executive director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC).

Where Business Meets Technology: Kaiser Permanente

Sep 18, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

Richard Daniels is executive vice president and chief information officer for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan, Inc.

A Tribute to Ray Larson’s Academic Life

Sep 22, 2017, 1:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An afternoon of short reports by colleagues and collaborators on the academic work and interests of the late Ray Larson.

Where Business Meets Technology: A.T. Kearney

Sep 25, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

Hugo Evans is VP of Data Science at A.T. Kearney.

Where Business Meets Technology: Red Hat

Oct 2, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

Mike Kelly is the CIO of Red Hat.

MIDS Meet & Greet

Oct 5, 2017, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Developing Leading-Edge Products and Going to Market

Oct 9, 2017, 2:10 pm to 3:30 pm

Aurangzeb Khan is the CEO of Altia Systems.

Knowing, Judging, Calculating: Consumer Credit Surveillance and the Infrastructure of Prediction

Oct 11, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The untold history of our modern credit scoring system and how it emerged from a 19th-century surveillance infrastructure with huge archives of personal information.

Data Dialogs 2017

Oct 23, 2017, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

A one-day conference bringing together data experts from industry, research, and academia.

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 21, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 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.

Previous Events

InfoCamp Berkeley 2016

Mar 12, 2016, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

InfoCamp is an “unconference” — an intimate seminar-style event for anybody interested in information-related topics, including user experience, data science, information architecture, interaction design, informatics, and information and communication technologies for development.

The Human Sciences in STEM Worlds

Mar 11, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Era of Developers as Business Model Extenders

Mar 9, 2016, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Digital companies from Amazon to Xiaomi are launching products that break industry boundaries. Andreas Constantinou of VisionMobile explains how.

The Practice of Stewardship as a Scholarly Discipline

Mar 4, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Locking the Web Open: A Call for a New, Distributed Web

Mar 1, 2016, 11:15 am to 12:15 pm

Brewster Kahle challenges us to create a new Web that is reliable, private, but still fun — in order to lock the Web open for good.

Of Rare Books and Research Datasets, and Stewardship Transitions as an Organizing Structure

Feb 26, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Pace of Change: Silicon Valley and the West Wing

Feb 24, 2016, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

An inside perspective from two former members of President Obama’s White House team about how tech policy and presidential priorities intersect.

Information Justice Beyond Distributions: Exploring Social Justice, Information, and Access

Feb 19, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Corporate Data and Human Rights

Feb 18, 2016, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

A panel on corporate transparency and accountability around internet surveillance and censorship

Power, Accountability, and Human Rights in a Networked World

Feb 17, 2016, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Rebecca MacKinnon is a leading advocate for Internet users’ rights to online freedom of expression and privacy around the world.

Relevance and Other Basic Problems

Feb 12, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Bibliography and the Sociology of Data

Feb 5, 2016, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Wicked Craft of Enterprise UX: Designing Enterprise Software

Feb 3, 2016, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

What is the role and place for craft in designing enterprise software? Uday Gajendar will share key stories from his careers at Oracle, Citrix, and CloudPhysics.

Knowledge Makers Muddling Through: Conditions for Documentation and Report Writing in Extra-academic Research

Jan 29, 2016, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

The Ends of Reason: Documents, Evidence, and Powers

Jan 22, 2016, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Art Of The Start: Launch Your Startup Career

Jan 20, 2016, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Dhawal Mujumdar, MIMS alumnus and founder of AdsNative, shares insider tips and first-hand experience on making your career in the startup world.

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Jan 6, 2016, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

The capstone project is the culmination of of the Master of Information & Data Science program. Join us for an online showcase of the Fall 2015 semester’s groundbreaking projects.

Applied Natural Language Processing Class Project Exhibition

Dec 14, 2015, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Student projects ranging from computer-generated sonnets to detecting common technical interview questions, from identifying an elite Yelp reviewer to emojineering.

Biosensing Project Presentations

Dec 7, 2015, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Projects use brainwave, heart rate, body movement, and other bio-sensing technologies for affective computing, context-aware security, e-commerce, neuro-marketing, privacy, quantified self, sentiment analysis, user interfaces, and more.

Information Access: the last 25 years and the next 25 years

Dec 4, 2015, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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