Last night, September 26, the Brown Institute hosted a group of journalism and science students for an evening of collaboration. We began with a panel led by Ros Donald, a PhD student at the Journalism School studying communication of climate change in Miami. Before beginning her PhD she was deputy editor of Carbon Brief, a
Frameworks for Predicting the Next Big Trends in Tech
Industry-shifting opportunities come along about every five-to-ten years. In this Sept. 24th conversation at Stanford, Ceci Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing, outlined her methodology for detecting platform shifts before it’s too late to jump on a trend. Given that the media industry is incredibly trend-driven and that the impact of innovation seems
How we spent our summer
… if only it was just a little longer! But the end of summer means that the 2018-2019 cohort of Magic Grants are coming to a close — the teams have spent nearly a year on their projects and this summer was the time to wrap-up prototypes, refine code, and finish their reporting. While all
Announcing Fall Programming Lineup at Columbia
We’re excited to announce our Fall programming lineup at the Brown Institute at Columbia! We have a diverse set of journalists, designers, and technology experts coming to our space to lecture, teach, and engage. Can’t wait for you to join us! A Science-Media Meetup for Climate Stories With Impact For Climate week, the Brown
Announcing the 2019 Brown Institute Showcase
Mark Hansen and Maneesh Agrawala cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2019 Showcase! Join us for a reception and exhibition of our 2018-2019 projects. October 17, 2019 – 6:00pm at the Brown Institute at Columbia University Descriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place in the
We’re Hiring!
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 on traditional forms of journalism and storytelling. They should work easily with teams of journalists, other members of the Brown Institute, and the larger creative
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 decennial count, to its impacts on funding across the country, to how journalists find and tell stories in the numbers. NewsCounts was just featured on
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 We propose a novel text-based editing approach for talking-head video. Given an edited transcript, our approach produces a realistic output video in which the dialogue of the speaker has been modified and
Puppet Dubbing
Authors O. Fried and M. Agrawala 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 of the input audio matches a closed-open-closed mouth sequence in our dubbed result. We present two methods, one semi-automatic