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Reimagining Enterprise Computing through Design – Satish Ramachandran
February 03, 2017 11:00 - 42 minutes - 12.2 MBSatish Ramachandran is the global head of design at Nutanix, where he is dedicated to applying design to reimagine enterprise computing. In this role he ensures the products being built serve the users’ intent, with very minimal, simple, and delightful interactions. Additionally, he focuses on scaling the design organization across geos and implementing processes to keep pace with rapid growth. Prior to Nutanix, Satish held a variety of management and technical leadership roles over the pa...
Student Speech: January 2017 Commencement (Ronald Cordell)
January 30, 2017 11:00 - 12 minutes - 5.89 MBMIDS graduate Ronald Cordell delivered the student speech at the UC Berkeley School of Information’s January 2017 commencement ceremony. Ron completed his MIDS degree in summer 2016. Ron also holds an MBA from Georgia State University and currently serves as staff software engineer at Sentient Technologies, which focuses on breakthrough artificial intelligence products.
Your Own Bias is Your Worst Enemy: Judd Antin's 2017 Commencement Address
January 24, 2017 20:00 - 12 minutes - 5.89 MBJudd Antin delivered the keynote address at the UC Berkeley School of Information's January 2017 commencement ceremony. Judd Antin is the director of research at Airbnb. In his research, Judd uses the methods and practices of UX and data science to study mediated interactions and the connections between attitudes and behaviors. His research draws from UX, HCI, social psychology, communication, behavioral economics, anthropology, and sociology. Judd was previously the manager of the Engagement...
Art Of The Start: Launch Your Startup Career (Dhawal Mujumdar)
April 15, 2016 09:38 - 1 hour - 34.4 MBFast growing startups can launch your career. But breaking into one can sometimes feel like learning a new language. Join Dhawal Mujumdar, MIMS alum 2011 and founder of AdsNative, as he shares insider tips and first-hand experience on making your career in the startup world. Learn how to find interesting startups and evaluate their worth, what roles are most sought after from founders at various stages of the company, how to determine what you bring to the table, and finally - how to connect...
Pace of Change: Silicon Valley and the West Wing (Nicole Wong & Greg Nelson)
April 08, 2016 10:36 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBTech entrepreneurs and policy wonks share a common desire to understand and shape the world, but often have different views, tools, and models for impact. Hear an inside perspective from two former members of President Obama’s White House team about how tech policy and presidential priorities intersect, and how technology will increasingly drive the decision-making process and implementation in the years to come. . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Wong Former U.S. Deputy Chief Technolog...
Locking the Web Open: A Call for a New, Distributed Web (Brewster Kahle)
April 01, 2016 09:01 - 57 minutes - 29.6 MBTwenty years after the World Wide Web was created, can we now make it better? How can we ensure that our most important values — privacy, free speech, and open access to knowledge — are enshrined in the code itself? In a provocative call to action, entrepreneur and Open Internet advocate Brewster Kahle challenges us to build a better, decentralized Web based on new distributed technologies. He lays out a path to creating a new Web that is reliable, private, but still fun — in order to lock th...
Power, Accountability, and Human Rights in a Networked World (Rebecca MacKinnon)
March 25, 2016 16:08 - 55 minutes - 28.8 MBWill Facebook play a decisive role in the 2016 presidential primaries? Should Twitter be blamed for the rise of the Islamic State? Has the Chinese government successfully marginalized political dissent by controlling the companies that run China’s Internet? The fast-evolving power relationships — and clashes — among governments, corporations, and other non-state actors across digital networks pose fundamental challenges to how we think about governance, accountability, security, and human rig...
Challenges for the Data Ecosystem (Doug Cutting, Chief Architect, Cloudera)
December 18, 2015 10:18 - 56 minutes - 28.9 MBUse of new data technologies now pervades our institutions, both private and government. But this data-driven revolution is far from complete. We can still influence where it takes us. I will discuss some of the current challenges we face, both technical and social, and how we might address them. Doug Cutting (@cutting) is the founder of numerous successful open-source projects, including Lucene, Nutch, Avro, and Hadoop. Doug joined Cloudera in 2009 from Yahoo!, where he was a key member of ...
“I'm Very Concerned About the Privacy of My Users:” Privacy as a Practice in Mobile App Development (Katie Shilton, University of Maryland)
December 11, 2015 10:32 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBPrivacy is a critical challenge for mobile application development. Mobile applications are easy to build and distribute, and can collect diverse personal data. US policy approaches to data protection in the mobile ecosystem rely on privacy by design: approaches that encourage developers to proactively implement best-practice privacy features to protect sensitive data. But we don’t know what factors motivate developers to implement privacy features when faced with disincentives such as longer...
Communications, Community, and Celebration: Co-creating the Maker Movement (Dale Dougherty)
December 04, 2015 23:28 - 54 minutes - 27.7 MBDale Dougherty is the founder and executive chairman of Maker Media, Inc. which launched Make: magazine in 2005, and Maker Faire, which held its first event in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. Dale’s vision and mission continue to be the guiding force for the family of brands. “The maker movement is contributing to a thriving market ecosystem, serving the needs of makers as they seek out product support, startup advice, and funding avenues. Make: plays an important role as a collaborator ...
Remember When Nobody Knew You Were a Dog? Anonymity, Identity and Location in Online Social Environments (Jeremy Birnholtz)
October 02, 2015 10:38 - 1 hour - 31.8 MBOnce upon a time, interacting anonymously online meant talking to strangers who could be anywhere in the world and knew very little about you, and about whom you knew very little. Thanks to GPS, ubiquitous mobile devices and an array of recent apps, however, we can now very easily connect anonymously with friends and strangers who are physically nearby. And as anybody who has read reports of (or experienced) cyberbullying or used apps like Grindr/Tinder/Scruff to meet, um, friends can tell yo...
Can We Afford Privacy from Surveillance? Do We Want To? (Jeffrey MacKie-Mason)
September 24, 2015 22:28 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBThe extent to which we are subject to surveillance — the collection of information about us, by government, commercial, or individual agents — is in large part an economic question. Surveillance takes effort and resources — spend more and we can do better surveillance. Protecting against surveillance also takes effort and resources. Given the state of technology, the amount of effort and money each side expends determines what is surveilled and what is kept private. As technology changes, bot...
Graduation 2015: Ph.D. student speeches (Bob Bell & Stuart Geiger)
June 19, 2015 09:54 - 14 minutes - 6.83 MBBob Bell & Stuart Geiger (Ph.D. 2015) look back on their years of doctoral study and what they've learned.
Graduation 2015: MIDS student speech (Sharon X. Lin)
June 12, 2015 09:27 - 14 minutes - 6.83 MBSharon X. Lin (MIDS 2015) reflects on being the very first class of the School's data science master's program.
Graduation 2015: MIMS student speech (Robyn Perry)
June 05, 2015 09:08 - 14 minutes - 6.83 MBRobyn Perry (MIMS 2015) gives her classmates “one last good ideological brainwashing” and challenges them to “combine idealism with entrepreneurialism and find practical ways to make the world a better place — instead of just devising new ways to make people click on ads.”
Graduation 2015 Keynote (Carl Bass)
May 29, 2015 09:40 - 14 minutes - 6.83 MBCarl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, reflects on the power of information and challenges the I School's 2015 graduates to use that power for good.
(Really) Knowing Your Customer (Hugh Williams)
February 27, 2015 12:32 - 55 minutes - 27.1 MBIn this talk, Hugh Williams shares over ten years of experience in using customer data to improve product experiences and drive business results. He shares stories of both quantitatively and qualitatively understanding customers, and how the large Internet giants experiment, measure, and improve their experiences. He talks about flaws and stories of failed experimentation, and the pitfalls of large scale measurement. He also discusses his career as an executive at Microsoft, eBay, and Pivota...
I'm In the Database (But Nobody Knows) (Cynthia Dwork)
February 20, 2015 12:00 - 51 minutes - 27.3 MB“Your data will only be used in aggregated form.” What does this statement mean, and why is it so often included in privacy policies? Drawing from examples in the popular press and the technical literature, the talk will scrutinize the common intuition that privacy is ensured by aggregation and show that information — and hence privacy loss — flows in mysterious ways. Arguing that the situation demands a mathematically rigorous treatment of privacy, the talk will introduce “differential priva...
How to Make Data Science Not Functionally Useless (Kimberly Stedman, Motiga)
February 06, 2015 12:22 - 19 minutes - 9.49 MBYou can buy the best hardware in the world, and hire the best mathematicians. You can write brilliant machine learning algorithms. However: if you do not have a way to produce information that is relevant to your organization and successfully communicate it to them, your entire data science department is the functional equivalent of a paperweight that costs more than raw plutonium. So let’s take a minute to talk about organizational structure, information flows, hiring, training, and data’s ...
Practical Privacy: Incorporating Privacy into Engineering and Business Decision-making (John Grant, Palantir)
January 30, 2015 11:00 - 19 minutes - 9.49 MBProtecting privacy and civil liberties cannot and should not be left to the lawyers. Given the rapid pace of technological innovation and the glacially slow development of corresponding legal doctrine, it falls to engineers and technologists to consider privacy and civil liberties issues as they design, build, and sell their ideas. In the course of this audience discussion, we will explore a hypothetical situation involving both business and design choices and consider the challenges in chart...
Experiments in Action (Elena Grewal, Airbnb)
January 23, 2015 11:00 - 19 minutes - 9.49 MBMaking decisions based on correlation can be risky. At Airbnb, a two-sided marketplace with both an online and offline travel experience, engineers have found that experiments provide powerful insights to act upon, by making it possible to distinguish correlation from causation. However, it’s important to be especially thoughtful about the design and implementation of experiments, given the complexity of the Airbnb system. Elena Grewal, data scientist at Airbnb, will discuss how the Airbnb da...
Broadening the Value of Open Data (Joy Bonaguro, City and County of San Francisco)
January 16, 2015 11:00 - 19 minutes - 9.49 MBThe movement known as “open data” started with a handful of governments releasing their data to the public. On one hand, open data has spurred innovative uses of government data, particularly with transit data and apps. But to expand the use and value of open data, we must go beyond mobile apps to leveraging open data as a means to inform public dialogue and decision-making in cities. Learn how San Francisco is migrating from simply pushing data out the door to enabling use of our (that is, y...
Data Science in Mixed-Methods Research (Judd Antin and Andrew Fiore, Facebook)
January 09, 2015 11:00 - 19 minutes - 9.49 MBThe data science toolkit encompasses powerful approaches for detecting and clarifying patterns in social or behavioral data. But when it comes to the interpretation of those patterns, it sometimes falls short — the data may convey “what” and “how much” with great precision, but it is often silent on “why” and “how.” Complementary research methods can fill in these gaps and paint a fuller picture of the phenomena at hand. At Facebook, we combine data science with qualitative and quantitativ...
Electronic Health Records: Designing for Collaborative Reflection (Gabriela Marcu, Drexel University)
December 11, 2014 19:14 - 58 minutes - 30.9 MBA rise in chronic conditions has put a strain on our healthcare system. Treatment for chronic conditions spans time, agencies, and providers. Information systems such as electronic health records should be helping with the challenge of coordination, but too often they do not. My research aims to alleviate this problem by designing health information systems that fit social practices and workflow. In this talk I will describe my research agenda around collaborative reflection – an informal, un...
TV Live-Tweeter: An Empowered TV Viewer (Kai Huotari)
October 17, 2014 10:22 - 52 minutes - 26.8 MBIn his doctoral dissertation, Kai Huotari studied how TV live-tweeting influenced the TV viewing experience. He interviewed 45 live-tweeters and analyzed more than 4,000 TV live-tweets sent in the U.S. in 2011–12. The study identified four distinct groups of users live-tweeting about TV programs (fanatic TV live-tweeters, systematic TV live-tweeters, sporadic TV live-tweeters, and active Twitter users), four main categories of TV live-tweets (courtesy tweets, outlet tweets, selection tweets, ...
Data Analytics at Facebook (Jake Peterson)
October 10, 2014 08:36 - 34 minutes - 17.9 MBJake Peterson discusses the Facebook analytics team and how they perform large scale data analysis, identify actionable insights, suggest recommendations, and influence the direction of the business. The Facebook analytics team serves as the voice of data that drives success throughout the company, including product development, user engagement, growth, revenue, and operations. Learn about their typical day-to-day responsibilities, challenges, and how best to succeed as a data scientist in a...
Patent Reform: Lessons Learned and What's Next for Startups (Julie Samuels)
October 03, 2014 08:23 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBWhat does the recent battle for patent reform mean for startups and for the future of tech policy? Julie Samuels is executive director and president of the board of Engine, a young and influential advocacy group working to ensure startups have a voice in D.C. Through policy analysis, economic research, and close relationships with policymakers and startups, Engine is helping to elevate the interests of technology entrepreneurship in American policy. Julie gives an overview of the recent bat...
Technology for the Greater Good: Careers in Data Science
September 26, 2014 09:46 - 57 minutes - 30.1 MBA panel of women data scientists discuss their career trajectories in the emerging and rapidly evolving field of data science. Panelists: Katharine Matsumoto, Data Scientist in Product Intelligence, Salesforce.com Vesela Gateva, Sr. Data Scientist, Eventbrite Emi Nomura, Data Scientist, Jawbone Elena Grewal, Data Scientist, Airbnb Pinar Donmez, Chief Data Scientist, Kabbage, Inc Anno Saxenian, Dean, School of Information (moderator)
Technology for the Greater Good: Meet Bayes Impact (Eric Liu and Paul Duan, Bayes Impact)
September 19, 2014 19:22 - 57 minutes - 30.1 MBMeet Eric Liu and Paul Duan of Bayes Impact, a non-profit organization deploying data science teams to work with civic and nonprofit organizations to solve big social impact challenges. They’ll talk about how Bayes Impact’s full-time fellowship programs bring together domain experts and data scientists from top technology companies and academic institutions and how I School students can get involved.
Graduation 2014: MIMS Student Speech (Deb Linton)
May 30, 2014 09:15 - 7 minutes - 3.78 MBMIMS student speaker Deb Linton, from the UC Berkeley School of Information 2014 Commencement (May 17, 2014).
Graduation 2014: Keynote Address (Nicole Wong)
May 23, 2014 09:15 - 7 minutes - 3.78 MBFrom the UC Berkeley School of Information 2014 Commencement (May 17, 2014). Keynote Speaker Nicole Wong is the deputy US chief technology officer, advising on Internet policy and privacy. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Nicole was the legal director at Twitter and vice president and deputy general counsel at Google, primarily responsible for the company’s product and regulatory matters. She is also a former partner at the law firm of Perkins Coie. Nicole is a frequent speaker and ...
Is the Web a Threat to Our Culture? (Paul Duguid & Andrew Keen)
May 12, 2014 10:13 - 42 minutes - 22.5 MBWhen Time Magazine named “YOU” as their 2006 Person of the Year, it highlighted what has been deemed the democratization of the media. The term “Web 2.0” was coined to describe this transformation on the internet, where individual volunteers, not institutions, control its content. But many people share doubts about the hype around Web 2.0 and have different ideas about what's significant, what's trivial, and what's irrelevant. Protagonists, such as Andrew Keen, believe that it is not only sig...
Changing the Nature of Work (Arnold Lund)
May 05, 2014 09:05 - 59 minutes - 31.2 MBExperience designers and researchers are working on their most ambitious challenge yet that represents a new frontier in user interfaces: creating a constellation of systems, machines, and people — including wearable gadgets, tablets, smart phones, and appliances — that can communicate with one another in an autonomous fashion. We are constantly adding new functions to gadgets and new devices to the ecosystem without much thought as to their totality or cumulative complexity. In the coming er...
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (danah boyd)
April 28, 2014 09:30 - 59 minutes - 31.6 MBWhat is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? Youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens’ use of social media. In her new book, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, boyd explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, she argues that society fails young people when paternalism and...
Big Data: Values and Governance - Closing Keynote (John Podesta)
April 21, 2014 09:34 - 29 minutes - 14 MBThis workshop was the last in a series of three events co-hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and academic institutions across the country in response to President Obama’s call for a review of privacy issues in the context of increased digital information and the computing power to process it. --- Hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the UC Berkeley School of Information, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. --- ...
Toward Reproducible Computational Science: Reliability, Re-Use, and Readability (Victoria Stodden)
April 14, 2014 18:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBThe dissemination of reproducible computational research — where the code and data that generated the results are made conveniently available — is now widely recognized as a transformative movement within the scientific community. It is attracting attention not only from researchers but also from librarians and repository managers, journal editorial boards, funding agencies and policy makers, and scientific software developers. This talk motivates the rationale for this shift, and presents s...
Advancing Cyberinfrastructure through Metadata Research (Jane Greenberg)
April 04, 2014 10:30 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBOngoing national and global cyberinfrastructure initiatives pose significant information organization challenges. Research targeting metadata helps address these challenges. This presentation covers a set of studies investigating technical, conceptual, and semantic-driven metadata solutions for organizing the deluge of digital data. The presentation introduces the Dryad data repository and the HIVE ontology environment; outlines motivating research questions and methods; and highlights key fi...
Transforming Health Care in the Information Age (Jack Cochran, MD)
March 28, 2014 09:34 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBFor most of history, health care was centered around the doctor’s office or hospital. It was the era of the lone practitioner, the omniscient physician to whom patients turned to treat their ailments. That was the industrial age of medicine. Today, health care is much more complex. The proliferation of information available to physicians and to their patients has fundamentally shifted the locus of information and power to patients. In the information age of medicine, we must optimize the use...
Analytics 3.0: Big Data and Small Data in Big and Small Companies (Thomas H. Davenport)
March 21, 2014 11:50 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBMany companies and observers are excited about the possibility of competitive advantage from analytics on "big data," but many don’t understand the differences between big and small data analytics. There are also substantial differences in how large, established organizations and startups approach big data. In this presentation, Tom Davenport will describe what organizations are attempting to accomplish with big data. Several leading examples of companies—large firms and startup—that are aggr...
Sprinting with the Community (Jon Whittle)
March 14, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 70 MBCatalyst is a £1.9M UK funded research project looking at how digital technologies either promote or act as a barrier to social change. Catalyst has developed a novel approach to such research which involves building partnerships of academics and non-academics (community organizations, charities, social enterprises etc.) to jointly imagine and develop digital technologies to address particular social agendas. Catalyst is run as a framework of projects — or sprints — in which teams form and ve...
Civil Liberties, Privacy, and National Security: A Conversation with The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
March 10, 2014 11:56 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBHow should we strike the right balance between national security and privacy and civil liberties in federal counterterrorism programs? Join members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to discuss the importance of government transparency regarding counterterrorism efforts, international issues raised by US surveillance programs, the impact of NSA programs on US industry and the Internet, and the Board’s role going forward. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Boa...
Online Ads and Offline Sales: Measuring the Effects of Online Advertising via a Controlled Experiment on Yahoo! (David Reiley)
March 07, 2014 12:09 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBDavid Reiley presents the results of a randomized experiment with 1.6 million customers measuring positive causal effects of online advertising for a major retailer. The advertising profitably increases purchases by 5%. 93% of the increase occurs in brick-and-mortar stores; 78% of the increase derives from consumers who never click the ads. This large sample reaches the statistical frontier for measuring economically relevant effects. Econometric efficiency was improved by supplementing exper...
NSA Spying, Snowden, and Sparking Change
March 03, 2014 12:31 - 1 hour - 67.6 MBA timely and engaging conversation with Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties director at the ACLU of Northern California. We will be exploring the latest updates related to NSA spying — what we now know, what we still don’t know, and opportunities in Congress, the courts, companies, and in communities to rein in warrantless surveillance and better safeguard privacy and free speech.
Connecting Big Data Semantics (Ying Ding)
February 27, 2014 22:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBBig data brings us challenges, but also hopes. This talk discusses these challenges and hopes from the semantic perspective. I will present two use cases to demonstrate the potential of semantic technologies for data integration and data analysis. The first use case discusses how to integrate researcher profiling data from different universities using their faculty annual report data. The second use case focuses on how to integrate public knowledge embedded in experimental data and literature...
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana (Jenna Burrell)
May 04, 2012 00:29 - 59 minutes - 54 MBHow is the Internet experienced in the margins of the global economy? In her new book, Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, I School professor Jenna Burrell presents a user study set initially in the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana but gradually expanded to include roadside youth clubs, churches, secondhand computer shops, and electronic waste dumps. This talk offers two threads of analysis from the book. First, an examination of the youth who used the Internet in thes...
Empowering Libraries, Archives, and Museums with Crowd-sourced Human Computation and Linked Open Data (Todd Carter)
April 25, 2012 23:15 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBWhat role will museums and libraries play in the information technology landscape of the future? Todd Carter presents his vision of museums and libraries empowered by Web 2.0 and crowd-sourcing technologies. He will focus on improving media annotation with open-sourced anthologies, linked open data, tagging with linked data URIs, semantics, machines, and crowd-sourced human computation. Todd Carter is the CEO and co-founder of Tagasauris, Inc., a metadata curation platform that incorporates...
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (Howard Rheingold)
April 20, 2012 17:56 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBJoin us for a discussion with author Howard Rheingold. In his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, Rheingold asks, how can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers; grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking neurotics? In Net Smart, he demonstrates how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing ...
Social Substrates: People and the data they make (David Ayman Shamma)
March 02, 2012 23:31 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBEverything we do online leaves traces: our tweets, Facebook likes, and YouTube views. Currently, Big Data is all about sifting through cloud stores of these traces with little question as to why those traces exist. Big Data analyses are based on data that are already collected; they are not about asking what should be collected to answer important social and motivational questions. I ask: What motivates people to do what they do? And how can we build predictive models of what people do based ...
Beyond Global: Learning from Many Voices (Chris Riley)
February 17, 2012 23:48 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBThere is a great realignment happening that is changing the way the world sees itself. This realignment is the product of economic globalization, amazing advances in technology and the end of a monistic media age. The world has, for a generation, been dominated by massive Western media companies who control the most influential media: television. In the coming years, television will realign alongside social media to a pluralistic world media culture within which many new narratives will vie ...
Consent of the Networked (Rebecca MacKinnon)
February 16, 2012 01:35 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBA global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy, and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Rebecca MacKinnon, author of the new book Consent of the Networked, moves the debate about the Internet’s political impact to a new level. It is time, she says, to...