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By : mkrisch January 30, 2015September 13, 2017

BBC visits Brown and Stanford, features Magic Grantee in story

Editors from the BBC visited Stanford last fall armed with questions about the future of news. The BBC spoke to Brown’s leadership team, students and Magic Grantees to learn about

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By : mkrisch December 20, 2014September 13, 2017

Brown Institute Fellow makes new Bedfellows

Nikolas Iubel, Brown Institute Fellow for 2013-2014 and graduate of the Dual Degree program between Journalism and Computer Science at Columbia University, is currently an intern with The New York Times’ interactive

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By : mkrisch November 11, 2014September 18, 2017

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

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By : mkrisch October 23, 2014September 18, 2017

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

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By : mkrisch October 22, 2014September 18, 2017

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

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By : mkrisch August 23, 2014September 18, 2017

XRay featured in the NYT Bits Blog

The New York Times Bits Blog featured a long piece by Steve Lohr on XRay, “a reverse-engineering machine that models the correlations made by web services.” As you browse the web, shop

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By : mkrisch March 8, 2014September 18, 2017

CJR Article on ‘Bit by Bit’

From the Columbia Journalism Review (read the full article.) On Friday, Ellen Weinstein, an award-winning illustrator based in New York, found herself in unusual company. She was in one of

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By : mkrisch December 16, 2013September 18, 2017

Two Brown Fellows Defend Ph.D. Research

Congratulations to Brown Fellows David Chen and Sam Tsai who successfully defended their Ph.D. research in November. Both went to the studio afterwards for a clean recording of their presentations. You

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By : mkrisch November 1, 2013September 18, 2017

ACM’s Multimedia Grand Challenge

Congratulations to 2012-2013 Magic Grant team members Brendan Jou, Hongzhi Li, Joseph G. Ellis and faculty advisor Shih-Fu Chang for winning the Grand Challenge 1st Place Award at ACM Multimedia. Their paper, “Structured

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