Satish 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

Student Speech: January 2017 Commencement (Ronald Cordell)

Jan 30th, 2017 12m 8s

MIDS 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 curre

Your Own Bias is Your Worst Enemy: Judd Antin's 2017 Commencement Address

Jan 24th, 2017 7m 17s

Judd 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 scienc

Art Of The Start: Launch Your Startup Career (Dhawal Mujumdar)

Apr 15th, 2016 1h 8m

Fast 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 yo

Pace of Change: Silicon Valley and the West Wing (Nicole Wong & Greg Nelson)

Apr 8th, 2016 1h 16m

Tech 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

Locking the Web Open: A Call for a New, Distributed Web (Brewster Kahle)

Apr 1st, 2016 57m 53s

Twenty 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 act

Power, Accountability, and Human Rights in a Networked World (Rebecca MacKinnon)

Mar 25th, 2016 55m 41s

Will 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 Chin

Challenges for the Data Ecosystem (Doug Cutting, Chief Architect, Cloudera)

Dec 18th, 2015 56m 15s

Use 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

“I'm Very Concerned About the Privacy of My Users:” Privacy as a Practice in Mobile App Development (Katie Shilton, University of Maryland)

Dec 11th, 2015 1h 4m

Privacy 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

Communications, Community, and Celebration: Co-creating the Maker Movement (Dale Dougherty)

Dec 4th, 2015 54m 50s

Dale 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 gu

Remember When Nobody Knew You Were a Dog? Anonymity, Identity and Location in Online Social Environments (Jeremy Birnholtz)

Oct 2nd, 2015 1h 3m

Once 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

Can We Afford Privacy from Surveillance? Do We Want To? (Jeffrey MacKie-Mason)

Sep 24th, 2015 1h 9m

The 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 ca

Graduation 2015: Ph.D. student speeches (Bob Bell & Stuart Geiger)

Jun 19th, 2015 14m 50s

Bob 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)

Jun 12th, 2015 14m 50s

Sharon 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)

Jun 5th, 2015 14m 50s

Robyn 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

Graduation 2015 Keynote (Carl Bass)

May 29th, 2015 14m 50s

Carl 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)

Feb 27th, 2015 55m 12s

In 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 la

I'm In the Database (But Nobody Knows) (Cynthia Dwork)

Feb 20th, 2015 51m 55s

“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 i

How to Make Data Science Not Functionally Useless (Kimberly Stedman, Motiga)

Feb 6th, 2015 19m 2s

You 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 c

Practical Privacy: Incorporating Privacy into Engineering and Business Decision-making (John Grant, Palantir)

Jan 30th, 2015 19m 2s

Protecting 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

Experiments in Action (Elena Grewal, Airbnb)

Jan 23rd, 2015 19m 2s

Making 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 dist

Broadening the Value of Open Data (Joy Bonaguro, City and County of San Francisco)

Jan 16th, 2015 19m 2s

The 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 an

Data Science in Mixed-Methods Research (Judd Antin and Andrew Fiore, Facebook)

Jan 9th, 2015 19m 2s

The 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 “

Electronic Health Records: Designing for Collaborative Reflection (Gabriela Marcu, Drexel University)

Dec 11th, 2014 58m 59s

A 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 coordina

TV Live-Tweeter: An Empowered TV Viewer (Kai Huotari)

Oct 17th, 2014 52m

In 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 dist