Events

Upcoming Events

Matrix on Point: Humanitarian Technologies

Sep 26, 2022, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

How does the shift from in-kind and in-person assistance to cash- and information-based assistance change humanitarian work?

Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Looking Around the Corner

Sep 27, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Leading experts discuss how cybersecurity is set to radically change over the next 5 to 7 years.

Disinformation and Deepfakes

Sep 28, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

We are awash in disinformation of lies, conspiracies, and now a new form of manipulated media — so-called deepfakes. Hany Farid explains how deepfakes are created and how to tell truth from fiction.

Kilolanguage Learning, Projection, and Translation

Sep 30, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Arya McCarthy is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University working on massively multilingual natural language processing

Stewardship: The Scope of the Challenge

Sep 30, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Infrastructures, Assemblages, and Ecosystems

Oct 7, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

How infrastructures, assemblages, and ecosystems spread and contribute to harm and how justice can work in complex, interconnected systems.

Contexts, Works, and Catalogs

Oct 7, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Michael Buckland & Wayne de Fremery propose context-based changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery.

Citizen Clinic Pizza Information Session

Oct 11, 2022, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Citizen Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

Book cover: “The Political Lives of Information Information” by Janaki Srinivasan

The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India

Oct 12, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

Natural Language Processing Seminar with Alex Tamkin

Oct 14, 2022, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm

Who Broke Mechanical Turk?

Oct 14, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Crowdsourcing data has recently become mostly unusable. Catherine Marshall uncovers what’s happening.

Series on Justice and Content Governance: Restorative Justice Workshop

Oct 21, 2022, 9:30 am to 11:00 am

A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.

Student Progress Reports

Oct 21, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Jeff Hancock

Oct 26, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jeff Hancock is a leading expert on technology’s role in deception and trust. Hancock is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in Communication.

104th Birthday Celebration

Oct 28, 2022, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 104th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Stewardship Lecture #3

Nov 4, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

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

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Jessica Hullman

Nov 9, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jessica Hullman is a leading expert in information visualization and uncertainty. Hullman is an information scientist and computer scientist by training, and an associate professor at Northwestern University.

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: Kate Starbird

Nov 16, 2022, 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. Starbird’s training is in technology, media, and society, with an emphasis on HCI, and she is an associate professor at the University of Washington.

Student Final Reports

Nov 18, 2022, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Trustworthy Information Lecture Series: David Rand

Nov 30, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

David Rand is a leading expert in the psychology of misinformation. Rand is a systems biologist and psychologist and runs MIT’s Human Cooperation Lab.

Previous Events

Rob Sanderson (photo: Sarah Waldorf/Getty Center)

Tiers of Abstraction and Audience in Cultural Heritage Data Modeling

Mar 13, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Rob Sanderson is a semantic architect at the J. Paul Getty Trust and a passionate advocate for open culture, linked open data, and the digitization of cultural heritage.

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.

I School students rally for Big Give. (Taken in February 2020)

Big Give 2020

Mar 11, 2020, 9:00 pm to Mar 12, 2020, 9:00 pm

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

Howard Besser (photo by Dan Streible: http://flic.kr/p/7Wbqr8)

Archiving the Non-Organizational Born-Digital: The Challenges Posed by Material from Individuals, Communities, Social Movements, and Events

Mar 6, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

How archives and special collections can address the transition from analog to digital creation and the digital deluge.

Green NLP

Mar 6, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Roy Schwartz is a research scientist at the Allen institute for AI and at the computer science and engineering department at the University of Washington.

Ph.D. Research Reception

Mar 4, 2020, 4:10 pm to 8:00 pm

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

WiDS Berkeley

Mar 2, 2020, 8:45 am to 4:30 pm

Women in Data Science is 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.

Seminar Project Progress Reports

Feb 28, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

What is Wrong with my Model? Detection and Analysis of Bugs in NLP Models

Feb 28, 2020, 11:10 am to 12:00 pm

Marco Ribeiro is a researcher at Microsoft Research, focused on helping humans interact with machine learning models meaningfully.

Repairing Innovation: The Labor of Integrating New Technologies

Feb 24, 2020, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Madeleine Clare Elish uncovers the hidden labor behind automated aviation, driverless cars, small scale agriculture, grocery retail, and emergency healthcare.

Assessing the Reliability of Clothing-Based Forensic Identification

Feb 21, 2020, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

A 2009 report was highly critical of many forensic practices. This is the first thorough analysis of the purportedly distinct patterns on the seams of denim pants.

Veridical Data Science

Feb 19, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of statistics and EECS. Her research focuses on practice, algorithm, and theory of statistical machine learning and causal inference.