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Tawana Petty
Beyond the Ouch: Activating Anti-racists in Data and Digital Spaces
Apr 14, 2021, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Tawana Petty responds to the racial bias baked into our data, digital, and technological systems
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Cybersecurity Spring 2021 Capstone Project Showcase
Apr 14, 2021, 4:00 pm to 6:00 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.
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Two Talks: The Elsevier Agreement and Stewardship of the Cultural Record
Apr 16, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Cliff Lynch discusses cultural stewardship & “cancel culture” and Ivy Anderson of CDL discusses UC’s landmark open access contract with Elsevier.
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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.
Ron Day
“Living Document”: from Mimesis to Indexicality, from Documentation to Documentality
Apr 23, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Rob Day explores the concept of the “living document” as joining knowledge and experience, science and literature.
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Roundtable Discussion: Refusal of Surveillance Tech, Part 2
Apr 26, 2021, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm
Clifford Lynch
Post-Covid Planning
Apr 30, 2021, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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MIMS Final Project Showcase
May 13, 2021, 4:00 pm to 8:00 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.
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School of Information 2021 Virtual Commencement
May 16, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Honor the classes of 2020 and 2021 with keynote speaker Brad Smith, president of Microsoft; faculty tributes; and presentation of capstone awards.

Previous Events

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Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data
Mar 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Hoyt Long
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.
Rosalie Lack
UCLA Library’s International Partnerships and Projects
Feb 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Morgan G. Ames
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?
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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.
Yifan Sun
Optimization for Machine Learning
Feb 14, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How good data models facilitate optimization and generalization in machine learning.
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Ph.D. Research Reception
Feb 13, 2019, 4:10 pm to 8:00 pm
School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.
Michael Buckland
Information Flows and Cultural Disruption
Feb 8, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
A change to a society’s pattern of communication, coordination, trust, and coercion is culturally disruptive.
Karen Chapple
Towards an Equitable Data-Driven Urbanism: Transforming Urban Theory and Practice via Data Science
Feb 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
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The Times They Are A-Changin’: The Influence of Scandal and Experience on Users’ Attitudes to Social Media Data Control
Feb 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Has widespread news of abuse made people more protective of their personal data?
Micahel Rivera
Does Email Suppress Turnout on Election Day? Experimental Evidence from the 2016 General Election
Jan 30, 2019, 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm
Massive impersonal unsolicited email campaigns might actually backfire.
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5th Year MIDS Data Science Panel
Jan 29, 2019, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Join current MIDS students and alumni for a discussion on data science roles and career resources.
Clifford Lynch
Climate Change and Some Possible Surprises
Jan 25, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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School of Information 2019 Winter Commencement
Jan 12, 2019, 2:00 pm
Honor summer and fall I School graduates with keynote speaker, student speaker, and presentation of the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.
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Data Science Fall 2018 Capstone Project Showcase
Dec 17, 2018, 5:00 pm to 8:00 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.
Jen King
Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory
Dec 12, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Jen King explores how people think about information privacy in online settings.
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Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition
Dec 5, 2018, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
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Natural Language Processing Poster Presentations
Dec 4, 2018, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Join us for the final project poster presentations from the course Info 259. Natural Language Processing.
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Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition
Dec 3, 2018, 9:30 am to 11:00 am
Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.
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Developments in 2018 and Prospects for 2019 and Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing
Nov 30, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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