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Dinner & Data: Open Data, Open Government, and Social Impact

Oct 24, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Alan Steremberg (Weather Underground co-founder and former Presidential Innovation Fellow) and Corinna Zarek (Mozilla Senior Tech Policy Fellow and former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer). Advance registration required.

Digital Security Crash Course

Oct 25, 2018, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Hands-on digital security training for people at all levels of expertise.

Florilegia: Organizing Scholarly Annotations in PDFs

Oct 26, 2018, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

ECAI Workshop: Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage, and Opportunities of New Technology

Oct 27 2018 - All-day event

Equitable Algorithms: A Social Welfare Function Approach

Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how and why algorithms can be designed for fairness.

GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.

Detecting Discrimination: What Eddie Murphy Teaches Us about Theory and Method

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Issa Kohler-Hausmann studies the methodological and theoretical issues in stating and proving discrimination claims.

Facilitating Diverse Collection and Curation in Web Crawling and Indexing and Blockchain: What's Not To Like?

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

Denver Data Science Meet-up

Nov 5, 2018, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

MIDS students and alumni are invited to join us for snacks, cold beverages, and refreshing conversation.

Dinner & Data: Privacy, Security, and Fairness: the Challenges of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Nov 7, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Colleen Chien, former White House Senior Advisor on Intellectual Property and Innovation, and Terah Lyons, former Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Data in the Higher Education Curriculum

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

Dinner & Data: Data, Technology, and Governance for Public Good

Nov 14, 2018, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

A seminar-style conversation led by Kristie Canegallo, former Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Implementation; DJ Patil, the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist; and Nicole Wong, former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Advance registration required.

Women in Tech: The Future of AI

Nov 16, 2018, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

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.

DataEDGE 2019

Apr 23 2019 - 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

Rob Sanderson (photo: Sarah Waldorf/Getty Center)

Every Identity, its Ontology

Feb 24, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Rob Sanderson is a semantic architect at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, and a passionate advocate for open culture, linked open data, and the digitization of cultural heritage.

Forecasting Tech Policy in the Face of Uncertainty

Feb 23, 2017, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

How will the government address cybersecurity or privacy legislation? Will net-neutrality be reversed? Our all-star panel weighs in on what technology policy can we expect in 2017.

Post and Trauma: The Use of Social Media by Sexual Assault Victims

Feb 15, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How can online social media communities support and empower victims of sexual violence?

Intel AI Academy Deep Learning Workshop

Feb 15, 2017, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Learn the fundamentals of machine learning, deep learning & artificial intelligence focused on newly optimized frameworks for Intel Architecture like Neon, Caffe, and Theano from professional and academic experts.

Fighting Organized Online Crime

Feb 15, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

The world of computer security keeps changing. Mikko Hypponen will look at the latest big hacking cases and reveal what really went on.

Tech Policy Forecast: Digital Privacy & Net Neutrality under the Trump Administration

Feb 14, 2017, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Heather West works on security, cybersecurity, data governance, and privacy in the digital age as a senior policy manager at Mozilla.

The Center for Technology, Society & Policy

Feb 10, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

New York Reception for MIDS Students & Alumni

Feb 9, 2017, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Where Does the Study of Information Lead?

Feb 3, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

What if we take the central concept of information science and see where it leads?

Reading Analytics and the Emerging Calculus of Reader Privacy

Jan 27, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Reading analytics are a relatively new development but are being deployed in many contexts and at a variety of scales.

Crypto Party 2017

Jan 26, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

A fun, informal event to learn computer security tools to protect yourself and others from hacking and surveillance.

Why Library Catalog Design is Obsolete

Jan 20, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Library and bibliographical practices for discovery and access are based on now-obsolete assumptions that pre-date digital networks. So we need to go back to basics and build more useful designs based on contemporary assumptions.

Reimagining Enterprise Computing through Design

Jan 18, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Satish Ramachandran is the global head of design at Nutanix, where he applies design to reimagine enterprise computing.

School of Information 2017 Winter Commencement

Jan 14, 2017, 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.

Data Science Capstone Project Showcase

Dec 19, 2016, 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.

Defending Dissidents from Targeted Digital Surveillance

Dec 9, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Bill Marczak researches nation-state information controls employed against dissidents and government malware tools.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 7, 2016, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Applied Natural Language Processing Project Showcase

Dec 7, 2016, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

Thirteen student projects, including a joke recommender, an analysis of Hillary's emails, and a predictor of drug to drug interactions.

Biosensing Project Presentations

Dec 6, 2016, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Final project presentation and feedback session for the course Info 290. Sensors, Humans, Data, Apps.

Tangible User Interfaces: Student Project Exhibition

Dec 5, 2016, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

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