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
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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
Announcing our 2019-20 Magic Grants!
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, is pleased to announce its 2019-20 Magic Grant recipients. Each year, the
Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher
On May 2, Brown welcomed technology journalist Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street
Nicholas Diakopoulos @ Stanford: “Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the News”
From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos, an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, and an expert
“Follower Factory” by NYT & CJS Comp Journalism Class is Finalist for Pulitzer Prize
On Monday, a package of stories including The Follower Factory — an in-depth investigation of purchased followers on twitter — along with other reporting on how Facebook and the big