A story scene showing (a) the winning draft for a scene. (b) Tabs can be used to switch to different drafts, with the winning draft being shown by default. (c) The scene prompt helps focus contributors on specific writing goals. (d) Contributors can make comments discussing the scene at a high level. Authors Joy Kim,
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A platform for journalism
The Brown Institute invaded an otherwise unsuspecting eating establishment in the West Village to meet with an awesome group of journalists, linguists, and technologists. The goal: discuss the state of computation in journalism and explore the creation of a computing platform specific to the field. It was, hands down, the geekiest event you’ve ever attended,
Magic Grant CityBeat accepted to WWW 2014
Congratulations to members of the 2013/14 Magic Grant CityBeat, whose paper was accepted to the demo track at WWW 2014. Their paper, “CityBeat: Real-time Social Media Visualization of Hyper-local City Data,” presents City Beat, a real-time visualization of hyper-local content, including event detection and trends, for cities. Explore all of the WWW 2014 Accepted Demos! Abstract:
Panel Discussion Video Available
In December, the Stanford side of the Institute played host to a livel discussion on the future of journalism. As reported in The Daily Dish, “To a room full of journalists and techies, panelists spoke on what they believe to be the pros and cons of the budding marriage between data and journalism.” A video of the panel
Two Brown Fellows Defend Ph.D. Research
Congratulations to Brown Fellows David Chen and Sam Tsai who successfully defended their Ph.D. research in November. Both went to the studio afterwards for a clean recording of their presentations. You can see both Sam Tsai’s “Mobile Visual Search with Text and Image Features, and David Chen’s Memory Efficient Image Databases for Mobile Visual Search.
ACM’s Multimedia Grand Challenge
Congratulations to 2012-2013 Magic Grant team members Brendan Jou, Hongzhi Li, Joseph G. Ellis and faculty advisor Shih-Fu Chang for winning the Grand Challenge 1st Place Award at ACM Multimedia. Their paper, “Structured Exploration of Who, What, When, and Where in Heterogenous Multimedia News Sources,” can be seen here.
Digital security panel, October 28th
Revelations about how much of our online activity is under surveillance have left many people wondering what’s left for digital security- or where the next frontier is. But digital security is not one-size-fits-all, and it never has been. For journalists, encyrption, digital security and privacy issues are perhaps more important now than ever before. The Frontline
Magic Grant Ensemble launches Arrowhead
The Human-computer Interaction group at Stanford University presents Arrowhead, a story that will be collaboratively written by Tom Kealey (Jones Lecturer of the Creative Writing department), Chris Baty (founder of NaNoWriMo), and people from all over the web! Arrowhead will be written using Ensemble, a new and experimental collaborative writing platform coming out of the HCI group with the goal
HGB’s Trust Donates $15 Million for College Prep
From the NY Times ArtsBeat Blog: “Helen Gurley Brown didn’t care only about the Cosmo girl. She was also concerned with underserved children in New York City. As a result, her trust is giving $15 million to the New York Public Library for a new educational and anti-poverty program based at library branches that was announced on