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  • Brown Institute for Media Innovation Presents Nicholas Thompson

    Paul G. Allen Building 101X 330 Serra Mall, Stanford, United States

    Photo 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        

  • Lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters

    Casa Refugio Citlaltepetl Citlaltépetl 25, Hipódromo Condesa, Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico

    El 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 plataforma es un archivo digital que agrega y conserva los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México. Desde el año 2000, han sido asesinados 111

  • 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 public intervention reflecting on the impact of technology on society. As the doors of the Glassroom open in San Francisco, its co-curator Stephanie Hankey gives

  • The Quest for Balance: Technology, Innovation and the Public Good in Higher Education

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Talk 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 in the modern labor market – but the question remains, what are the attributes and skills needed to make an impact on the social good?

  • 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, congressional votes and campaign finance. Bowers spoke on October 15 to an interdisciplinary group of Stanford students (compute science, engineering and business, among others). He

  • 2019 Brown Institute Annual Showcase

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    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Mark 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, 2019 - 6:00pm at the Brown Institute at Columbia University Descriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place in the

  • How Charts Lie – A Talk by Alberto Cairo

    Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    We’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 because they can reveal patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. Good charts make us smarter—if we know how to

  • The Transparency Series – Natural Language Processing

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter 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 will introduce and discuss the ways in which textual materials (news articles, government records, social media, and other primary sources) can be worked with as

  • Mapping Data Flows Flier

    Mapping Data Flows – How the Largest Tech Firms Use Your Data

    International Affairs Building 1501 420 W 118th St, New York, NY, United States

    Join 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 Media Innovation, the Journalism School and SIPA, in understanding how the largest technology companies collect, use, and share user information across the internet. We’ve transformed

  • Points Unknown Mapping Module I: Intro to Mapping / QGIS

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    News 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 the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories.

  • Points Unknown Mapping Module II: Annotated Maps / Illustrator

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    News 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 the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories.

  • Points Unknown Mapping Module III: Web Maps / Mapbox.js

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    News 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 the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories.

  • The Transparency Series – Reporting on Twitter

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter 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 narratives of how the world is structured, including how information flows and spreads, both within and outside of communities. The platform is host to policy

  • The Transparency Series – Artificial Intelligence

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter 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

  • Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation – Travis Oliphant

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The 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

  • Immersive Storytelling – Photogrammetry & Augmented Reality

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    From 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

  • Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram, Host of Vox’s Today, Explained

    Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

    The 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

  • The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Can 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

  • The Transparency Series – Data Visualization

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter 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

  • Magic Grant Information Session (Columbia)

    Online Webinar NY

    The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our first Magic Grant Information Session taking place virtually for the Columbia side of the Brown Institute on March 10, 2020 at 4:30PM.