Events

Upcoming Events

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.

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.

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

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?

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?

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Documentary Film: Emanuel Goldberg and the First Search Engine

Apr 7, 2017, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Join Michael Buckland for the North American premiere of a documentary about Emanuel Goldberg, the forgotten developer of the first electronic search engine.

Social Cybersecurity: Reshaping Security Through An Empirical Understanding of Human Social Behavior

Apr 5, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

In the era of pervasive, connected smart things, cybersecurity depends on the complex social consequences of our security behaviors.

The Untapped Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline

Apr 4, 2017, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Cybersecurity talent is more needed than ever, but the pipeline to fill these jobs is sorely lacking. Emily Reid will illustrate the problem and provide recommended strategies to address the challenge.