Brown Institute Magic Grantee Jessa Lingel co-authored a piece for The Atlanticon Facebook’s recent public apology. According to their article After aggressively suspending the accounts of dozens of drag performers, in
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Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things
This weekend the Brown Institute hosted Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things, an experiment, led by the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia, in new forms and functions of storytelling. Roughly 25 storytellers, game developers,
Latour week at Columbia
Last night, Prof. Latour spoke to an audience of 500 people on his recent work is on climate change, on global ecological crisis. You can see a video of the event here.
Gaia Global Circus concludes Latour Week
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening, Compagnie AccenT and Soif Compagnie presented Gaia Global Circus at The Kitchen in Chelsea, followed by Q&A sessions with the troupe and Prof. Latour.
2013-2014 Magic Grant Wrap-ups
THE DECLASSIFICATION ENGINE is a partnership between faculty and students in Columbia’s Departments of History, Statistics and Computer Science. The goal was to probe the limits of official secrecy by applying natural
Brown at Columbia’s new fellows
The Brown Institute at Columbia is pleased to announce three fellows for 2014-2015. Each has a very different kind of engagement with narrative – from new experiments in longform storytelling, to
XRay featured in the NYT Bits Blog
The New York Times Bits Blog featured a long piece by Steve Lohr on XRay, “a reverse-engineering machine that models the correlations made by web services.” As you browse the web, shop
Crowdsourcing experts by Michael Bernstein
Michael Bernstein’s work about crowdsourcing expertise and problem-solving is featured on a new video. He shows how to dynamically assemble and manage paid online experts. Bernstein is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford,
Our new Columbia home!
Today the Brown Institute moved into its new home at Columbia University. I (Mark Hansen) can report that the space is more lovely than I could have ever imagined. While