“The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.” Hamming, 1962. Fernando Perez, one of the creators of the Jupyter Notebook, began his talk at the Brown Institute Thursday with this
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The Brown Institute Welcomes Prof. Fernando Perez
Thursday, May 9, Fernando Perez, a co-founder of Project Jupyter, will be the last speaker in our Distinguished Lecture Series in Computational Innovation. His team is responsible for the Jupyter
Announcing our 2019-20 Magic Grants!
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, is pleased to announce its 2019-20 Magic Grant recipients. Each year, the
Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher
On May 2, Brown welcomed technology journalist Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street
Nicholas Diakopoulos @ Stanford: “Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the News”
From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos, an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, and an expert
“Follower Factory” by NYT & CJS Comp Journalism Class is Finalist for Pulitzer Prize
On Monday, a package of stories including The Follower Factory — an in-depth investigation of purchased followers on twitter — along with other reporting on how Facebook and the big
Open Source Investigation
This post contains reports from two Columbia Journalism School students who attended Bellingcat’s five day Open Source / Digital Research Training Workshop, hosted by Graphika, Inc. The workshop taught students how
Casting the Vote – An American Dinner Party
As part of the Hacking Voter Suppression 2018-2019 Magic Grant, Columbia Journalism School Professor June Cross and Charlotte Braithwaite, a Theater Director and Assistant Professor of Music and Theater Arts
Final Transparency Series Event
As the semester starts to wind down, we have one remaining Transparency Series event — this one on Drone Photography. If you are interested, register at brwn.co/tx. Friday April 12,