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The TechCons

Mar 24, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Congames are as old as human society, but the internet has made congames much more powerful.

Stewardship in the Digital Age (Continued)

Apr 7, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Stewardship in the Digital Age (Continued)

Apr 14, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Cybersecurity Spring 2023 Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 19, 2023, 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

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

Returning to “Rumoring” for Understanding and Responding to Misleading Content Online

Apr 19, 2023, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Kate Starbird is a leading expert on how people use social media to seek, share, and make sense of information and misinformation.

Short Reports

Apr 21, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Short research presentations and updates.

Data Science Spring 2023 Capstone Project Showcase

Apr 27, 2023, 5:00 pm to 7:30 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.

Priorities for Shrinking Academic Research Libraries

Apr 28, 2023, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Funding for academic research libraries has been declining for at least two decades. Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason presents critical choices facing research libraries.

MIMS 2023 Final Project Showcase

May 11, 2023, 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Graduating master’s students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

School of Information May 2023 Commencement

May 15, 2023, 2:00 pm

Honor the class of 2023 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Previous Events

How to Care About Information

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.

I School Faculty Panel: Women in Tech

Mar 23, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

I School faculty members discuss their research and the importance of including the perspective of women and underrepresented minorities at the frontiers of information technology.

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.

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.

Post-Covid Issues

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

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.

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 1

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

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

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.

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.

Context and Relevance

Feb 26, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

Prediction Games: Using Evidence and Data-based Forecasting to Pique Interest in Complex Topics and Real-world Events

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

Prediction games pit players against one another as they use open data and news stories to forecast the outcome of real-world events.

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: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Bloc by Bloc. Image courtesy of Harvard University Press.

Authors Meet Critics: Bloc by Bloc

Feb 11, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Steven Weber puts forward a compelling new model for global organization that integrates modern developments in technology and governance.

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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