Prof. Girod, the East Coast Director of the Brown Institute, has just been elected to the National Academy of Engineering “for his contributions to video compression, streaming and multimedia systems.” At Stanford Prof.
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Why should we care about Light Field Displays?
What if your mobile phone’s display would correct your vision deficiency instead of your glasses? Light field display technology can assess and correct user vision. Prof. Gordon Wetzstein will be
BBC visits Brown and Stanford, features Magic Grantee in story
Editors from the BBC visited Stanford last fall armed with questions about the future of news. The BBC spoke to Brown’s leadership team, students and Magic Grantees to learn about
Boots Up! First Brown Institute Base Camp Takes Place
Jan.16-18: They came, they met, they brainstormed, they prototyped, they presented. It was the Brown Institute’s first West Coast Base Camp, designed to bring together 10 students from Columbia and 10
Looking back on 2013-2014!
We are pleased to release the first of our annual reports, describing the work done by the Brown Institute over the previous year. This is essentially an adaptation of a
2015-16 Brown Magic Grant Applications Open!
Wa are now accepting applications for 2015-16 Brown Institute Magic Grants. The full process is documented on this page, but here’s our timeline for the season. Proposal submission deadline: March 8,
Brown Institute Fellow makes new Bedfellows
Nikolas Iubel, Brown Institute Fellow for 2013-2014 and graduate of the Dual Degree program between Journalism and Computer Science at Columbia University, is currently an intern with The New York Times’ interactive
@Brown: World Press Photo Multimedia Awards
From December 12-19 (Monday-Friday) and again from January 19-February 6 (again, Monday-Friday), the Brown Institute at Columbia will host the 2014 World Press Photo Multimedia Award Winners. The institute has
Institute members get crash course in Design Thinking
Stanford Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Michael Bernstein, led Magic Grant teams in a Design Thinking-style “Crash Course” at the Brown Institute’s second All Hands meeting of 2014, December 2