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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, September 13, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Eric T. Meyer is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

When identifying organ transplant recipients — and in other matching problems — is it better to find a match more quickly, or more slowly and carefully? Afshin Nikzad’s research weighs the tradeoffs in different circumstances.

Friday, September 20, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Digital technologies have reshaped the movie industry. What are the implications for the industry’s future?

Friday, September 27, 2024, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 106th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Friday, October 4, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The recent discovery of hundreds of letters from our alumnus Robert Gitler ’31 sheds new light on his experiences in founding the Japan Library School in 1951.

Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How the economics of trademarks contributed to the spread of modern notions of “information”.

Friday, October 18, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Deirdre K. Mulligan served for the past year in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy U.S. chief technology officer for policy.

Friday, October 25, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Clifford Lynch explores the problems and questions AI poses for preserving the digital cultural record.

Friday, November 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Do economies of scale render cloud services inherently monopolistic? Nick Merrill’s new research suggests otherwise.

Friday, November 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Günter Waibel is associate vice provost & executive director of the California Digital Library.

Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

Friday, November 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

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.

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.

Previous events

Monday, March 6, 2023, 5:10 pm - 6:30 pm

Dr. Jason Reinhardt discusses the nuclear deterrence challenges facing the United States and the world.

Friday, March 3, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

The Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifies affiliations in research outputs and tracks research outputs at the institutional level.

Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 4:10 pm - 5:15 pm PST

Nina Beguš will introduce “artificial humanities,” an approach that integrates the study of humanities into the creation of technologies

Monday, February 27, 2023, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Hakeem Oseni shares strategies for using diplomacy and personality to achieve good security outcomes.

Saturday, February 25, 2023, 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program with fun and informative activities, networking, a dinner event, and more.

Friday, February 24, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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

Friday, February 17, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm PST

Formerly incarcerated Berkeley students discuss technology-mediated harms that disproportionately affect communities impacted by the criminal legal system.

Friday, February 10, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, February 3, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Short research presentations and proposals from seminar students.

Friday, January 27, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday, January 23, 2023, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm

Anne Jonas’s dissertation research explores the promises of online schools even before the Covid-19 pandemic, revealing how virtual schools are fueled by social inequality, precarity, and destruction of public infrastructure.

Friday, January 20, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

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

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

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.

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Join Cyversity and the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity for this special end-of-year event!

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Friday, December 2, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Stewardship and preservation issues related to social media.

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 4:10 pm - 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.

Monday, November 28, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The international security challenges posed by emerging technologies and how to best to govern them.

Friday, November 18, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm