On March 5, the Tow Center and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation hosted the MINDS Innovation Challenge at Columbia Journalism School. Columbia students from different disciplines, including journalism, data science, and statistics, came together for a
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Magic Grants Due Today
This is a reminder that applications for Brown Institute Magic Grants are due TODAY (3/7) by midnight Pacific time! As many of you might know, one of our current team of
Behind the scenes of “On the Brink”
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This week, Peter DiCampo, a fellow in the Photography Expanded program — a joint effort of the Magnum Foundation and the Brown Institute — launched his site “What Went Wrong”. DiCampo
“On the Brink of Famine”: Full Doc Released
The Drop Posted by FRONTLINE Today we are proud to announce the release of the full documentary “On the Brink of Famine.” “On the Brink” takes you inside South Sudan in 360° to meet people
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Second VR Trailer for “On the Brink”: The Camp
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Visual Genome: A new interface for image search and retrieval
Visual Genome is a dataset, a knowledge base, an ongoing effort to connect structured image concepts to language. It allows for a multi-perspective study of an image, from pixel-level information
Announcing the MINDS Innovation Challenge!
On Saturday March 5, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation are teaming up to host the MINDS Innovation Challenge. Working with text, photo and