Authors Sean J. Liu, Maneesh Agrawala, Stephen DiVerdi, Aaron Hertzmann In 360◦ video, viewers can look anywhere at any time. In the opening scene of Invasion!, a rabbit emerges from a cave (a). In sequential playback, a viewer looking at the cave (green box) will see the rabbit emerge, whereas a viewer not looking at
Rethinking Audio @ Stanford with Google News
Rethinking Audio: Michael Mellody and Liz Gannes, Google News The rise of virtual assistants increasingly allows us to be informed, enlightened and entertained when our hands and eyes are busy. Demand is high: home assistants commanded a 40 percent year over year growth. Increasingly, people want news through these mediums, throughout the day – especially
AI-based Request Augmentation to Increase Crowdsourcing Participation
Authors Junwon Park, Ranjay Krishna, Pranav Khadpe, Li Fei-Fei, Michael Bernstein Abstract To support the massive data requirements of modern supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms, crowdsourcing systems match volunteer contributors to appropriate tasks. Such systems learn “what” types of tasks contributors are interested to complete. In this paper, instead of focusing on “what” to ask,
Stanford Welcomes Washington Post’s Director of Engineering
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
“Democracy Fighters” – Coverage in Mexican Media
On the evening of October 9, Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul unveiled her project “Democracy Fighters” at Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl in Mexico City. The launch event was picked up by news outlets in Mexico. Mexico City’s leading daily newspaper, La Jornada, posted a video, featuring an interview with Alejandra. “Defensores de la Democracia reúne el trabajo de
Stephanie Hankey of Tactical Tech Speaks at Columbia
On October 10, 2019, Brown at Columbia hosted Stephanie Hankey for its inaugural 2019-2020 Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation. Stephanie Hankey is a designer, technologist, and social entrepreneur who has worked internationally at the intersection of technology and human rights for the past 20 years. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Tactical Tech,
“Democracy Fighters” Opens in Mexico City
On the evening of October 9, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Article 19 gathered at Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl in Mexico City for the launch of Democracy Fighters, a digital archive that aggregates and preserves the works of journalists killed in Mexico. Since 2000, 111 journalists and media workers have been
Stanford Welcomes Wired Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson
On October 8, The Brown Institute at Stanford welcomed Wired magazine Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson who joined Stanford Brown Director, Maneesh Agrawala, for an in-depth conversation about the state of the media and technology. The two discussed the trajectory of Thompson’s journalistic career – from The Washington Monthly, to The New Yorker.com, The Atavist, to Wired and
Stanford Welcomes Neil Chase, CEO of CalMatters.org
How to Create a Culture of Innovation – especially in a legacy media company? That was the question Neil Chase, CEO of the nonprofit news site CalMatters.org, addressed at Stanford on October 1. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of The San Jose Mercury News, Chase spoke about the local newspaper as an essential utility whose various core functions have