Media Innovation Lectures
The goal of this series is to introduce students interested in Computer Science, Engineering and Media to what's possible and probable when it comes to media innovation. Speakers from multiple
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Events
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Gates 174, 353 Serra Hall, Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA
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Brown Institute for Media Innovation Presents Nicholas Thompson
Paul G. Allen Building 101X 330 Serra Mall, Stanford, United StatesPhoto by: Mark Mann/WWD Editor-in-Chief of WIRED magazine, Nick Thompson will discuss media trends with Brown Institute Director Maneesh Agrawala. RSVP: BIT.LY/BIMITHOMPSON
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Lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters
Casa Refugio Citlaltepetl Citlaltépetl 25, Hipódromo Condesa, Ciudad de México, Mexico City, MexicoEl Brown Institute for Media Innovation, el Comité de Protección a Periodistas, Artículo 19, y Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl cordialmente te invitan al lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters, un archivo viviente. Esta
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Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation featuring Stephanie Hankey, Tactical Tech
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States"Go to The Glass Room. If Black Mirror Had a Showroom, This Would Be It." - Baratunde Thurston Nearly 150,000 people in 30 countries have visited the Glassroom; an interactive
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The Quest for Balance: Technology, Innovation and the Public Good in Higher Education
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesTalk and discussion with Dr. Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez, Ph.D. Executive Director of Foundation Relations and researcher at The University of Texas at Austin. Technical skills are paramount to succeed
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Brown Welcomes Washington Post Director of Engineering Jeremy Bowers
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,
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2019 Brown Institute Annual Showcase
FeaturedBrown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesMark Hansen and Maneesh Agrawala cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2019 Showcase! Join us for a reception and exhibition of our 2018-2019 projects. October 17,
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How Charts Lie – A Talk by Alberto Cairo
Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesWe’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Charts, infographics, and diagrams are ubiquitous. They are useful
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The Transparency Series – Natural Language Processing
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesPresenter Allison Parrish, NYU Workshop Description Much like other forms of data, documents and text provide enormous potential as a form of data to be analyzed and visualized. This workshop
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Mapping Data Flows – How the Largest Tech Firms Use Your Data
International Affairs Building 1501 420 W 118th St, New York, NY, United StatesJoin John Battelle — Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at SIPA, and Co-Founder & CEO of Recount Media — and a team of researchers from the Brown Institute for
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Points Unknown Mapping Module I: Intro to Mapping / QGIS
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of
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Points Unknown Mapping Module II: Annotated Maps / Illustrator
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of
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Points Unknown Mapping Module III: Web Maps / Mapbox.js
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of
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The Transparency Series – Reporting on Twitter
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesPresenter Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed Workshop Description Twitter is not just a source of updates from friends and happenings in the local community. Instead, it is a dense network embedded with
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The Transparency Series – Artificial Intelligence
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesPresenter John Keefe, Quartz Workshop Description Data, code and algorithms are changing systems of power in our world, often without sufficient critical assessment or accountability. Today’s journalists need to understand
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Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation – Travis Oliphant
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThe Brown Institute and the Foundations for Research Computing program welcomes Travis Oliphant, CEO at OpenTeams and Quansight, founder of Anaconda, and creator of NumPy, to deliver a Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation at the Brown Institute on February 13th, 2020. About Travis Oliphant Travis E. Oliphant is a Founder and CEO/CTO of Quansight, an
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Immersive Storytelling – Photogrammetry & Augmented Reality
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesFrom augmented, mixed and virtual reality, to 3D storytelling, immersive technologies provide new opportunities for journalists to broaden their stories and engage readers. While these technologies have been deployed in museum spaces, game design, and architecture/planning, journalism has been slow to move beyond 360-degree video and basic implementations of augmented reality. When outlets such as
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Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram, Host of Vox’s Today, Explained
Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram, host of Today, Explained, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox, Today, Explained is your all killer, no filler, Monday to Friday news. Sean, a veteran of the podcast space, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director
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The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesCan climate fiction help overcome political friction? When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable
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The Transparency Series – Data Visualization
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesPresenter The Pudding Workshop Description Graphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data, and is an important tool for finding stories. Also, outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and FiveThirtyEight are publishing data visualizations that push the