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Upcoming Events

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?
Rosalie Lack
UCLA Library’s International Partnerships and Projects
Feb 22, 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.
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Computational Bibliography and the Sociology of Data
Mar 1, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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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.
Victoria Coleman
Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development
Mar 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Hany Farid
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?
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
University of California - California Digital Library
Community-Owned Data Publishing: California Digital Library’s new partnership with Dryad
Mar 15, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
InfoCamp
InfoCamp Berkeley 2019
Mar 16, 2019, 9:00 am to 6:30 pm
The premier student-run conference for the information community.
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Information Access Seminar: Daniel Kluttz
Mar 22, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
Information Access Seminar: Jeff MacKie-Mason
Apr 19, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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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.
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Women Leaders in Tech: Shattering Ceilings and Scaling Cliffs
Apr 24, 2019, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
A panel of women in senior leadership roles in the technology sector discuss their experiences in an industry that continues to be largely male-dominated.
AnnaLee Saxenian
Information Access Seminar: AnnaLee Saxenian
Apr 26, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Niloufar Salehi
Information Access Seminar: Niloufar Salehi
May 3, 2019, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
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School of Information May 2019 Commencement
May 19, 2019, 10:00 am
Honor the class of 2019 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards and the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Awards.

Previous Events

Frank L. Smith III
Quantum Technologies and International Security
May 3, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
What quantum technologies are on the horizon and how will they influence the future of international security?
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Information Visualization Final Project Showcase
May 3, 2017, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Class projects in information visualization.
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Data Mining and Analytics Project Presentations
May 2, 2017, 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Final project presentations for the course Info 290T. Data Mining and Analytics.
Ignacio Arnaldo
AI for Enterprise Security: The Challenges From a Data Scientist’s Perspective
May 2, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
The challenges of using advanced analytics to monitor cybersecurity threats.
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Data Science Capstone Project Showcase
May 1, 2017, 5:00 pm to 7:00 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.
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Data-Intensive International Development Poster Session
May 1, 2017, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm
Analyses of real-world data with the potential benefit the world’s poor.
Cathy Marshall
Personal Digital Archives: From Accumulation to Legacy
Apr 28, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor at the Texas A&M University Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.
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Digital Dissent: Commons Conversations: Technology and Public Life in Changing Times
Apr 25, 2017, 6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
A panel discussion of the role of digital media in political action, advocacy, and public life, from the Berkeley campus to the national stage.
Tom Lowenthal
Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Journalists?
Apr 25, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
How is the information revolution affecting the future of journalism and an informed society?
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Hands-On Biosensing Demo at Cal Day
Apr 22, 2017, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Join the BioSENSE research group and experience Virtual Reality while exploring signals from your body like heart beat, brainwaves, and more, at Cal’s annual Open House.
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Mapping & Visualization of Cultural Data: Native California, Mosques in China, Maritime Buddhism
Apr 21, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Mapping and visualization of transdisciplinary data with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.
Tarleton Gillespie
At Scale and under Pressure: How Social Media Moderate, Choreograph, and Censor Public Discourse
Apr 19, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How should social media police inappropriate speech and anti-social behavior?
Serge Egelman
From Theory to Practice: Empowering Users to Make Privacy Decisions in Mobile Environments
Apr 19, 2017, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm
How can your phone’s operating system help you make smart decisions about personal privacy?
Ron Deibert
Cyber Espionage and Civil Society: A Silent Epidemic
Apr 18, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Ron Deibert is director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and a leading scholar of global security, ICTs, and human rights.
Photo courtesty of Nic McPhee (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/385btc
Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS): a toolkit supporting humanities research
Apr 14, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Berkeley Prosopography Services is an open-source digital toolkit supporting prosopographical research and generating interactive visualizations of the connections that link individuals.
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Data Science and User Research at Facebook: The Two Cultures and the Hacker Way
Apr 12, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Insight from data science director Danny Ferrante and user research manager Umer Farooq.
Nithya Sambasivan
Human Systems as Design Tools in Resource-constrained Environments
Apr 12, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
As technology finds new users in developing countries, alternative interactions emerge that challenge our design assumptions. Nithya Sambasivan presents her research on designing for human collectives in developing countries, with examples from her prior work in India.
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After “Awareness and Action”: From today’s cyberpolicy to tomorrow’s digital environment
Apr 11, 2017, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
A panel discussion about the impact of CSIS’s cybersecurity recommendations in the years to come
Justin Cheng
Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online
Apr 11, 2017, 9:40 am to 11:00 am
New computational methods for understanding and predicting antisocial behavior and misinformation in online communities.
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Social Norms Hackathon
Apr 7, 2017, 4:00 pm to Apr 8, 2017, 3:30 pm
Calling all Berkeley STEM students to promote positive social norms and make a difference for good.

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