On Saturday, November 15, the Brown Institute hosted the Digital Storytelling Lab’s meeting on “Narrative Medicine.” In the picture above, Rita Charon, a physician, literary scholar and the Founder and
Synapp/Widescope receives Notable Paper Award at HCOMP 2014
David Lee, Ashish Goel, Tanja Aitamurto and Hélène Landemore’s paper, “Crowdsourcing for Participatory Democracies: Efficient Elicitation of Social Choice Functions,” received a Notable Paper Award at HCOMP 2014, the second Association for
Announcing – Stories Told, Beautifully
Illustration by Ellen Weinstein On Thursday, November 20 at 6pm, the Brown Institute is pleased to sponsor a conversation between Ellen Weinstein, world renown illustrator, and Len Small, the Art
Cannabis Wire at Demo Day
The Cannabis Wire Magic Grant team, Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian, were selected as one of five projects to pitch at the New York Media Center’s Demo Day. Alyson and
3rd Symposium on Computation+Journalism
The 3rd Journalism+Computation Symposium started with a great set of talks and demos. Greg Linch offers a great summary of Jon Kleinberg’s keynote about the ways information flows through networks and how the media
Art++ Magic Grant featured in the New York Times
Colleen Stockmann and Jean-Baptiste Boin are featured in a lovely piece in the New York Times on the digital revolution’s touch on museums. Colleen describes their Magic Grant project Art++ as giving “you more
Stanford Magic Grant Team Earns City Recognition
The Magic Grant team Crowdsourced Democracy Team at Stanford was recognized on Oct. 15 by the City of Vallejo, Calif., for a digital voting system and their work on crowd
Magic Grants take top prizes at NYC Media Lab Summit
One hundred students and faculty from nearly a dozen NYC area universities participated in a demo session during the NYC Media Lab Annual Summit hosted at The New School in
Brown Media Innovation Base Camp – Call for Applications
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the School of Engineering at Stanford University and the Graduate School for Journalism at Columbia University invites you to apply for the inaugural