The Brown Institute began it’s 2016-2017 Transparency Series with a day-long workshop on opinion polls. Harry Enten and Neil Paine from FiveThirtyEight introduced 25 students to the complexities of modern polling. Many organizations conduct
Brown welcomes Distinguished Media Innovator, DJ Spooky
Every year, Brown seek new ways to connect research with leading media innovators, and we are happy to announce that we named DJ Spooky, aka That Subliminal Kid, Paul D. Miller, as
#Rio2016 meets #NYCML16 at the Brown Institute
The Brown Institute was delighted to host a portion of the New York Media Lab Summit 2016. The day-long event featured talks, demonstrations and workshops, and was billed as a
Joanna Coles visits Brown
On September 15, the Brown Institute welcomed Joanna Coles, Hearst’s first Chief Content Officer. Coles spoke to about 100 students on the lawn outside the Mathematics Building on the Columbia
Art++ wows Cantor, Stanford Daily
Brown’s magic grant team, Art++ is wrapping up their two-year project with a bang. On September 16, an exclusive VIP Reception was held as a preamble to the Cantor Art
Brown welcomes Joanna Coles, September 15 @5:30pm
The Brown Institute is pleased to welcome Joanna Coles, newly named chief content officer at Hearst (pictured above in the construction site that was the Brown Institute 2 years ago). We
Brown to host first Media Innovation Showcase
The Brown Institute will be hosting its first ever Media Innovation Showcase on September 29. We’ll be celebrating another year of stellar Magic Grant projects with presentations, demos, food and
Generating Semantically Precise Scene Graphs from Textual Descriptions for Improved Image Retrieval
Actual results using a popular image search engine (top row) and ideal results (bottom row) for the query a boy wearing a t-shirt with a plane on it. Authors Sebastian
Maneesh Agrawala featured at the Commonwealth Club
As a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grantee, Stanford Brown Director Maneesh Agrawala, together with digital artist Camille Utterback, were welcomed by the Commonwealth Club of California as guest speakers this past week in