BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Brown Institute - ECPv6.15.1.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://brown.columbia.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Brown Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181106T133000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20180921T174956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T181553Z UID:3282-1541505600-1541511000@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: On Algorithmic Bias with Jeff Larson DESCRIPTION:Larson\, formerly a Senior Reporter for ProPublica and now co-founder of TBA\, a new journalistic site that will report on how algorithms work and influence media. In his talk Larson will discuss the formation of his new venture and explain what innovations are needed when it comes to understanding how algorithms work and influence the information we receive. URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/media-innovation-seminar-on-algorithmic-bias-with-jeff-larson/ LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305 ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T140000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20181019T132831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T132831Z UID:3420-1541678400-1541685600@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Reproducible Data Journalism without Code DESCRIPTION:Join Krishna Bharat\, creator of Google News and Jonathan Stray\, designer of Workbench to discuss reproducible data journalism without code. \nReproducibility allows readers and journalists to see how you produced your data-driven story\, and colleagues to learn from your work. But until now\, reproducibility has required programming. Workbench is a new platform for data journalism that combines scraping\, cleanup\, analysis\, and visualization in one app\, without any coding required. In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to use Workbench to scrape pages\, load social media data\, clean campaign finance records\, create live updating charts\, and more. \nRegister URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/reproducible-data-journalism-without-code/ LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States CATEGORIES:Trainings ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181108T180000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20180802T142031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T204535Z UID:2600-1541692800-1541700000@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Eric Xing DESCRIPTION:At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor\, Pulitzer Hall)\, the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight programmers\, data scientists\, and other practitioners from the private sector who lead cutting-edge technology initiatives such as Python\, C++\, and the Open Source Initiative. \nThis lecture features Dr. Eric Xing\, Professor\, Department of Machine Learning\, Carnegie Mellon University; Founder\, Chief Executive Officer\, and Chief Scientist\, Petuum\, Inc. \nThe event will include a presentation\, Question & Answer session\, and post-event networking reception. \nDr. Eric P. Xing is Founder\, CEO and Chief Scientist at Petuum Inc. He is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the Associate Department Head for Research of the Machine Learning Department and the Founding Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at CMU. For his distinguished contributions in AI/ML\, he was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). \nDr. Xing is a thought and innovation leader in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. His principal research interests are in the development of machine learning and statistical methodology and large-scale computational system and architectures\, for solving problems involving automated learning\, reasoning\, and decision-making in high-dimensional\, multimodal\, and dynamic complex systems. His pioneering research has created numerous AI/ML foundational techniques\, such as the Parameter Server\, distance metric learning\, distributed network inference\, dynamic networks\, dynamic nonparametric Bayesian models\, spectral graphical models\, and variational inference. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications\, while receiving multiple Best Paper Awards. \nDr. Xing is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society\, program chair and general chair of the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML)\, and a former member of the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Advisory group. He is the recipient of numerous awards including: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science; United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award; and the IBM Open Collaborative Research Faculty Award. \nRegister Here URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-dr-eric-xing/ LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T180000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20180921T171929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T214507Z UID:3267-1542126600-1542132000@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times DESCRIPTION:New York Times graphics editor Kevin Quealy will join the Brown Institute for Media innovation in conversation about innovations in data visualization and his work at The Upshot\, the Times’s site about politics\, economics\, and everyday life. \n  \nRSVP is requested but not required. URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/brown-2018-2019-speaker-series-data-visualization-at-the-new-york-times/ LOCATION:Packard 101\, Stanford University\, 350 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20181026T185317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T205012Z UID:3434-1542218400-1542227400@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Free Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect” DESCRIPTION:This panel is the second in a series of events examining the role that the First Amendment should play in assessing the lawfulness of government surveillance. The first panel addressed legal doctrine and the skepticism with which courts view the claim that surveillance “chills” free speech. This second panel will assess the chilling effect. Does surveillance chill speech and dissent? How so? And can we measure the chilling effect? \nThe panel answering those questions will include Jon Penney and Elizabeth Stoycheff\, two professors who’ve tried to quantify the chilling effect\, and Alex Abdo\, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. \nFreedom of Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect” \nWednesday\, Nov. 14\, 2018\n6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.\nReception to follow \nPulitzer Hall\, Brown Institute\nColumbia University \nFeaturing:\nAlex Abdo\, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University\nThomas Kadri\, Yale Law School Information Society Project\nJon Penney\, Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University\nElizabeth Stoycheff\, Wayne State University \nHosted by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School\, Information Society Project at Yale Law School\, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/free-expression-in-an-age-of-surveillance-measuring-the-chilling-effect/ LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://brown.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/surveillance-std-p5d1-nov-14.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181116T183000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20180921T010036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T152026Z UID:3196-1542387600-1542393000@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Voice Interfaces with Joseph Price of Washington Post and Tommy O'Keefe\, Vincent Farquharson & Nara Kasbergen of NPR DESCRIPTION:Voice assistants are changing the way people search for and consume content. By one estimate\, half of the adults in the US make use of voice interfaces — for now\, mostly on their smartphones. But with the steady improvement of voice recognition\, smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo\, Google Home\, Apple’s HomePod constitute new platforms for accessing information. How will journalism fare in this new ecosystem? Obviously\, a direct reading of news stories written for the print or the web will tax the capabilities of current speech synthesis — not to mention the patience of a listener. In this discussion\, we will get an overview of the current voice experience ecosystem and hear about the voice promised land: why voice interfaces are so powerful and alluring and what the future will look like. We will also hear about first hand experiences from folks at The Washington Post and NPR. \nFor registration and more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu. URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-voice-interfaces-with-joseph-price/ LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States CATEGORIES:Transparency Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://brown.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/VoiceInterfaces.png ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20180921T010050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181116T142354Z UID:3203-1542450600-1542474000@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Voice Interfaces with Washington Post & NPR DESCRIPTION:Authoring experiences for a voice assistant or smart speaker is a combination of several distinct skillsets. Some conversational interfaces are driven by keywords\, depending on users stating specific terms\, while others involve artificial intelligence to create more natural conversations around content. The content itself is a product of both editorial work as well as programming effort to implement the conversation in code. In this workshop\, students will prototype a journalistic application for a smart speaker. We will focus on Amazon’s Alexa platform and use simple graphical interfaces to design content delivery. Emphasis will be on developing insights into what makes a good conversation\, reformatting and focusing on journalism that translates well to the platform. URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-voice-interfaces-with-npr/ LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States CATEGORIES:Transparency Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://brown.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/VoiceInterfaces.png ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181127T133000 DTSTAMP:20260424T023305 CREATED:20180921T175609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180921T181656Z UID:3284-1543320000-1543325400@brown.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Media Innovation Seminar: Innovations in Computational Photography with Josh Haner DESCRIPTION:Josh Haner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and Senior Editor for Photo Technology at The New York Times. In this talk Josh will discuss the latest innovations in computational photography\, including the use of drones. URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/media-innovation-seminar-innovations-in-computational-photography-with-josh-haner/ LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305 CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR