Eve Weston, CEO and founder of Los-Angeles based VR studio Exelauno told Stanford students that she has developed a way to talk about VR — what she calls a “taxonomy” for
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Office Hours Announced for CJS Students
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce appointment-based office hours for students needing help in all things digital. This includes (but is not limited to) students seeking assistance with data
View-Dependent Video Textures for 360° Video
Authors Sean J. Liu, Maneesh Agrawala, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann Image: In 360◦ video, viewers can look anywhere at any time. In the opening scene of Invasion!, a rabbit emerges
Rethinking Audio @ Stanford with Google News
Rethinking Audio: Michael Mellody and Liz Gannes, Google News The rise of virtual assistants increasingly allows us to be informed, enlightened and entertained when our hands and eyes are busy.
AI-based Request Augmentation to Increase Crowdsourcing Participation
Authors Junwon Park, Ranjay Krishna, Pranav Khadpe, Li Fei-Fei, Michael Bernstein Abstract To support the massive data requirements of modern supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms, crowdsourcing systems match volunteer contributors
Stanford Welcomes Washington Post’s Director of Engineering
Stanford welcomed Jeremy Bowers, Director of Engineering, at The Washington Post. Bowers and his team are ramping up for the 2020 election, focusing on political data projects including election restyles,
Stephanie Hankey of Tactical Tech Speaks at Columbia
On October 10, 2019, Brown at Columbia hosted Stephanie Hankey for its inaugural 2019-2020 Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation. Stephanie Hankey is a designer, technologist, and social entrepreneur who has
Stanford Welcomes Wired Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson
On October 8, The Brown Institute at Stanford welcomed Wired magazine Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson who joined Stanford Brown Director, Maneesh Agrawala, for an in-depth conversation about the state of the
Stanford Welcomes Neil Chase, CEO of CalMatters.org
How to Create a Culture of Innovation – especially in a legacy media company? That was the question Neil Chase, CEO of the nonprofit news site CalMatters.org, addressed at Stanford