Events

Upcoming Events

WiDS Berkeley: Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley

Mar 8 2021 - All-day event

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Ph.D. Research Reception, Part 1

Mar 10, 2021, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

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

Big Give

Mar 10, 2021, 9:00 pm to Mar 11, 2021, 9:00 pm

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

Ph.D. Research Reception, Part 2

Mar 12, 2021, 12:00 pm to 2:30 pm

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

Post-Covid Issues

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

Social Media Is Too Important to Leave Up to the Market

Mar 15, 2021, 10:30 am to 11:30 am

Ethan Zuckerman explores a model for rethinking and rebuilding social media and digital institutions as public goods.

Applied Trustworthy Digital Repositories and Risk Assessment

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: Ryan Shaw

Apr 2, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Ryan Shaw is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Local to Global: E-Reserves at UC Berkeley

Apr 9, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How Berkeley’s University Library rose to the challenge of providing course materials to all students in a fully virtual global environment.

Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 1

Apr 12, 2021, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm

Cybersecurity Spring 2021 Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 14, 2021, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects.

Data Science Spring 2021 Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 22, 2021, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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.

Information Access Seminar: Ron Day

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

Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 2

Apr 26, 2021, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm

Post-Covid Planning

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

Previous Events

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.