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By : mkrisch November 9, 2015September 12, 2017

Information Cartography

Former Magic Grantee Dafna Shahaf, a post-doc in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, together with researchers from Stanford, the University of Washington, and Microsoft, has just published a paper

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By : mkrisch October 22, 2015September 12, 2017

Cannabis Wire Launches

Today, Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian formally launched Cannabis Wire, “a news startup that will document the end of a prohibition and the birth of an industry” — a site that focuses “on

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By : mkrisch October 19, 2015September 12, 2017

Brown at the American Society of News Editors Conference

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation made a splash at the American Society of News Editors conference, held Oct. 16-18 on the Stanford University campus.  Magic Grant recipients discussed and

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By : mkrisch September 14, 2015September 12, 2017

First All Hands Meeting of 2015-16 Season

On September 11 and 12, both halves of the Brown Institute came together for the first “All Hands” meeting of its 2015-16 granting period. The event started with a wrap

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By : mkrisch December 29, 2014September 13, 2017

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

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By : mkrisch December 20, 2014September 13, 2017

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

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By : mkrisch December 9, 2014September 13, 2017

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

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By : mkrisch November 11, 2014September 18, 2017

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

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By : mkrisch November 1, 2014September 18, 2017

Cannabis Wire at Demo Day

The Cannabis Wire Magic Grant team, Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian, were selected as one of five projects to pitch at the New York Media Center’s Demo Day. Alyson and

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