The Brown Institute for Media Innovation has awarded seed funding to teams of students, post-docs and faculty from Stanford and Columbia universities to develop new technologies that could transform the
1 1/2 months until our opening!
Work on the Brown Institute space at Columbia hit a milestone today as the floor started to be installed! We are on schedule to take occupancy in June, but this
Brown Fellow David Chen wins Capocelli Award
David Chen’s paper, “Interframe Coding of Global Image Signatures for Mobile Augmented Reality,” presented in March at the Data Compression Conference, has been selected to receive the prestigious Capocelli Award, given
Brown/Tow Award
We are pleased to announce The Award for Excellence in Computational Journalism co-sponsored by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. It honors work
Bushwig at PCA/ACA
Adam and Jessa from the Bushwig Magic Grant will present their work at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Meeting in Chicago this week. They will speak on identity curation, or rather,
A Second Hard Hat Dinner
Last night, the Institute hosted its second Hard Hat Dinner. We invited 19 media scholars, educators, journalists, entrepreneurs, and friends for the second in a series of events to celebrate
CityBeat: Real-time Social Media Visualization of Hyper-local City Data
Authors Xia C., Schwartz, R., Xie K., Krebs A., Langdon A., Ting J. and Naaman M. Abstract With the increasing volume of location-annotated content from various social media platforms like
Ethics of Data Conference Announced!
The recent influx of big data has surfaced a multitude of ethical questions centered around the use of digital data for social good. The first Ethics of DataConference, which will bring