The Institute at Columbia has two open positions — one for a creative technologist and one for a database aficionado. The first person will conduct original “creative research” that expands
NewCounts Is Hiring Two 2020 Census Reporters
NewsCounts, a Knight Foundation funded project, is seeking two Research Scholars to help report on the 2020 U.S. Census and its role in American democracy — from privacy in the
Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video
Authors O. Fried, A. Tewari, M. Zollhöfer, A. Finkelstein, E. Shechtman, D. B Goldman, K. Genova, Z. Jin, C. Theobalt and M. Agrawala Image: We propose a novel text-based editing
Puppet Dubbing
Given an audio file and a puppet video, we produce a dubbed result in which the puppet is saying the new audio phrase with proper mouth articulation. Specifically, each syllable
Information Maximizing Visual Question Generation
Example questions generated for a set of images and answer categories. Incorrect questions are shown in grey and occur when no relevant question van be generated for a given image
Project NOAH
NOAH is a mapping application created by Disha Shetty, Maya Miller, Pankhuri Kumar and Ravie Lakshmanan, alumni of Columbia Journalism School, and Pietro Ceccato of SPACEBEL. It was made possible
Casting the Vote
By Alex Calderwood. Justin Hicks’ deep voice rolls through the microphone, sending blue light across the dark chamber like a waveform, illuminating on the table in front of me a
Thinking with Computation
“The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.” Hamming, 1962. Fernando Perez, one of the creators of the Jupyter Notebook, began his talk at the Brown Institute Thursday with this
The Brown Institute Welcomes Prof. Fernando Perez
Thursday, May 9, Fernando Perez, a co-founder of Project Jupyter, will be the last speaker in our Distinguished Lecture Series in Computational Innovation. His team is responsible for the Jupyter