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
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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
World Press Photo Multimedia 2014
From December 12-19 The Brown Institute will host the World Press Photo Multimedia awards from 2014. In all, 6 films and 3 interactives will be on display in the Institute
Brown Bags kick off at Stanford
On November 7, the Stanford arm of the Institute hosted the second in a series of “Brown Bag” lunches launched earlier this fall. The Institute welcomed David Cohn, head the
Documentary about crowdsourced constitution in Iceland
Iceland, that small and mighty island nation in the middle of the Atlantic, decided to crowdsource its constitution in 2010, making it a pioneer in policy-making. Join us for the
Brown Institute Concert Series
Friday November 14, the Columbia arm of the Brown Institute held the first of its concerts mingling data, code, journalism and music. The series is curated by Charlotte Mundy, a soprano
Narrative Medicine Meeting
On Saturday, November 15, the Brown Institute hosted the Digital Storytelling Lab’s meeting on “Narrative Medicine.” In the picture above, Rita Charon, a physician, literary scholar and the Founder and
Synapp/Widescope receives Notable Paper Award at HCOMP 2014
David Lee, Ashish Goel, Tanja Aitamurto and Hélène Landemore’s paper, “Crowdsourcing for Participatory Democracies: Efficient Elicitation of Social Choice Functions,” received a Notable Paper Award at HCOMP 2014, the second Association for
Announcing – Stories Told, Beautifully
Illustration by Ellen Weinstein On Thursday, November 20 at 6pm, the Brown Institute is pleased to sponsor a conversation between Ellen Weinstein, world renown illustrator, and Len Small, the Art