Events

Upcoming Events

Demographics, Social Networks, and Mobile Phone Usage: Introduction and Take up of Community Cellular Networks in the Philippines

Dec 13, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

School of Information Winter 2020 Commencement

Jan 13, 2020, 12:00 pm

Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of capstone awards.

How to (Machine) Read a Novel: Modeling Events and Information in Literary Fiction

Jan 14, 2020, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Novels pose unique challenges overlooked by current natural language processing systems.

WiDS Berkeley

Mar 2 2020 - All-day event

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.

Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing

Mar 12, 2020, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Discover how the Organization for Transformative Works built a model for non-corporate, user-driven, online participatory cultures.

DataEDGE 2020

Apr 28 2020 - 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.

Previous Events

Addressing Social Media Harm in the Internet Age

Apr 23, 2018, 2:10 pm to 4:00 pm

How do we address social media’s role in harm and conflict?

Reasons and Rights to be Brave: Rescripting Search to Respect the Right to Truth

Apr 20, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Image courtesy of btckeychain/Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/o3qhRn

Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It With Fire

Apr 20, 2018, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Nicholas Weaver explains why cryptocurrencies must die.

Two Presentations: PrivSec-F1: Compliance Focused Toolkit and Using CAPTCHAs to Measure Internet Fragmentation

Apr 13, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

New York MIDS Happy Hour

Apr 3, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

MIDS students and alumni are invited to a fun happy hour.

Mistaking Minds and Machines: How Speech Affects Dehumanization and Anthropomorphism

Mar 22, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Recent research explores how the voice can affect the likelihood of mistaking a person for a machine or a machine for a person.

Design for Collective Action

Mar 21, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Niloufar Salehi introduces social computing systems to support collective action.

Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness

Mar 19, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

What does it mean for algorithmic classification to be fair, and how can we promote algorithmic fairness?

InfoCamp Berkeley 2018

Mar 17, 2018, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

The premier student-run conference for the information community, with a focus on augmenting society and the vanishing divide between digital and physical worlds.

Consumer Law for the 21st Century

Mar 16, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Internet of Things will be tethered, blurring the lines between physical goods, digital goods, and digital services.

Capturing Human Behavior and Language for Interactive Systems

Mar 14, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

We imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors, but today’s systems fall short of these visions.

The Means Don’t Quantify the Ends: Criteria and Metrics for Evaluating Digital Preservation Success

Mar 9, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Cultural preservation is a form of communication with the future. So how can we measure its success?

Stewardship of the Cultural Record: How do we approximate cultural “production”?

Mar 9, 2018, 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

The challenge of cultural stewardship when everyone is a content producer.

A Conversation on Big Data, Surveillance, and Policing

Mar 8, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Catherine Crump & Andrew Guthrie Ferguson discuss issues related to surveillance, policing, and civil liberties.

Big Give

Mar 7, 2018, 9:00 pm to Mar 8, 2018, 9:00 pm

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

Self-Disclosure and Response Behaviors in Socially Stigmatized Contexts on Social Media

Mar 7, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How can social media platforms better foster well-being when people experience distress and stigma?

WiDS Berkeley: The Global Women in Data Science Conference

Mar 5, 2018, 8:30 am to 5:15 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.

Three Progress Reports

Mar 2, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Algorithms in Practice: Comparing Web Journalism and Criminal Justice

Feb 26, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Angèle Christin documents a gap between the intended and actual effects of algorithms in two professions.

Migration and the Value of Social Networks

Feb 23, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Joshua Blumenstock uses novel data and methods to understand the economic lives of the poor.

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