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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, September 13, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Eric T. Meyer is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

When identifying organ transplant recipients — and in other matching problems — is it better to find a match more quickly, or more slowly and carefully? Afshin Nikzad’s research weighs the tradeoffs in different circumstances.

Friday, September 20, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Digital technologies have reshaped the movie industry. What are the implications for the industry’s future?

Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 106th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Friday, October 4, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.

Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How the economics of trademarks contributed to the spread of modern notions of “information”.

Friday, October 18, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Deirdre K. Mulligan served for the past year in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.

Friday, October 25, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

Friday, November 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

Friday, November 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Friday, November 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.

Previous events

Friday, October 13, 2006, 8:00 am, – Sunday, October 15, 2006, 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Marc A. Smith, Microsoft Research
Pictures of Traces of Places, People, and Groups
October 11, 2006, 4:00pm-5:30pm
202 South Hall

Thursday, October 5, 2006, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University
What Price Insularity? Dialogs about Computer Security Failings<

Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Judith Donath, MIT Media Lab
Signals, Truth and Design
September 27, 2006, 4:00pm-5:30pm

Friday, September 22, 2006, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Thursday, September 21, 2006, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Friday, September 15, 2006, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Thursday, September 14, 2006, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, August 25, 2006, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, August 18, 2006, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Thursday, May 25, 2006, 9:00 am, – Friday, May 26, 2006, 6:00 pm
Saturday, May 13, 2006, 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Friday, May 12, 2006, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm