C++ is one of the key foundations of our software. It is invisible to most people because they use it only indirectly. It’s in your computer and your phone. It’s in the machines that manufacture, your computer, and your phone. It’s in most cars, including all the self-driving ones. It’s on Mars, and in deep

The “Charleston Reconstructed” team is in Charleston interviewing community members and mapping Confederate monuments through photogrammetry with a drone. The team consists of Columbia Documentary Journalism student Robert Tokanel, Stanford Computer Scientist Kyle Qian, and Stanford undergraduates Khoi Le and Hope Schroeder. The team is looking to “digitally transform public spaces” in Charleston using augmented

At the end of September, the Brown Institute, along with the Heyman Center, SIPA, and the Libraries, are honored to announce a week of events featuring Cory Doctorow, blogger, journalist and science fiction writer. The week includes an intimate conversation with Dennis Tenen about science fiction and contemporary authorship, a talk about digital copyright and

Knowing Together is a workshop and exhibition on collaborative 3D photography and embodied experience hosted and supported by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College in collaboration with the Brown Institute’s Creative Technologist Rosalie Yu.  Seminar September 19, 2018 – 12:00-1:30pm The Smith Learning Theater  | Teachers College Register at knowing-together.rosalieyu.com Yu uses 3D capturing techniques to explore the

In June, the Brown Institute and the UN-DESA’s Statistics Division announced a call for projects pairing journalistic outlets and official statistics offices to better inform the public. In some ways, it was our approach to combatting misinformation — figure out ways to provide “facts where opinions are formed,” to quote the OECD. We had an

On September 6, from 9am-5pm, the Brown Institute is proud to host a day devoted to public data. It is designed for students in journalism, statistics and data science — essentially anyone who has an interest in understanding their neighborhoods, their cities, their state and even the nation through data. Throughout the day, students will