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SUMMARY:2020 Brown Institute Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join the Event! \nThe event features a unique mix of journalists and technologists\, all funded through the 2019-20 Magic Grant program — this is their moment to show off a year’s worth of work. The event will take place on a unique virtual platform allowing visitors to mingle with directors and staff\, and meet individually with grantees while they demo their projects. \nThe projects this year are incredibly strong. Each one addresses an important contemporary question\, be it political\, cultural or technical — from a tool that can assist in analyzing the last ten years of 24/7 TV news coverage; to a solutions journalism approach to tracking and reporting on maternal mortality in Nigeria; to a new tool that securely transforms a smartphone into a socially-minded diagnostic device offering insights into digital behavior; to the first comprehensive database of human rights violations in Pakistan.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/2020-brown-institute-showcase/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200514T163000
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. \nTo join\, please use the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/911667097\nPassword: 751054 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-12/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162350
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200506T164840Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. \nTo join\, please use the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/911667097\nPassword: 751054 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-11/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162350
CREATED:20200406T144153Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. \nTo join\, please use the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/911667097\nPassword: 751054 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-10/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200425T160000
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Political Polling
DESCRIPTION:Presenter\nDhrumil Mehta\, FiveThirtyEight \nWorkshop Description\nThe last workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Dhrumil Mehta who leads Pollapalooza at FiveThirtyEight to get exposed to sources\, tools\, and strategies for working with polls — starting at the very beginning with simple random samples\, and leading to the detailed models that are employed today. All the while\, the workshop will emphasize how to find and tell interesting\, novel stories with polls. No prior experience in statistics or data analysis is needed. \nRegister to Attend
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-transparency-series-political-polling/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T163000
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. \nTo join\, please use the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/911667097\nPassword: 751054 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-9/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T163000
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. \nTo join\, please use the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/911667097\nPassword: 751054 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-8/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200409T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200409T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20200406T143710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200406T143710Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is hosting virtual Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place each Thursday on Zoom at 4:30PM EST. \nTo join\, please use the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/911667097\nPassword: 751054 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-7/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session (Columbia)
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our second Magic Grant Information Session taking place virtually for the Columbia side of the Brown Institute on March 26\, 2020 at 4:30PM. \nTo join\, please click the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/861228398 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16468769923\,\,861228398# or +16699006833\,\,861228398#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833\nWebinar ID: 861 228 398 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-6/
LOCATION:Online Webinar\, NY
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T173000
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our first Magic Grant Information Session taking place at Stanford Engineering via a virtual webinar on March 12\, 2020 at 4:30PM. \nTo join the meeting\, please visit stanford.zoom.us/j/249681708. \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at brown_institute@stanford.edu. \nWe hope you can join!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-stanford-2/
LOCATION:Online Webinar\, NY
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20200306T190624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200308T233840Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session (Columbia)
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our first Magic Grant Information Session taking place virtually for the Columbia side of the Brown Institute on March 10\, 2020 at 4:30PM. \nTo join\, please click the link below:\nhttps://zoom.us/j/900839288 \nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16468769923\,\,900839288# or +16699006833\,\,900839288#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write us at browninstitute@columbia.edu. \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-5/
LOCATION:Online Webinar\, NY
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200229T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200229T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20190917T211906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191212T204445Z
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Data Visualization
DESCRIPTION:Presenter\nThe Pudding \nWorkshop Description\nGraphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data\, and is an important tool for finding stories. Also\, outlets like The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and FiveThirtyEight are publishing data visualizations that push the idea of story telling\, creating new data-driven ways to inform and entertain. In this day-long workshop\, students will review some basic data visualization skills–guiding you through the design process. Students will work with charts and annotation layers and learn to exploit what’s unique about data. During the day\, students will also help you think critically about visualizations\, making them a better consumer of data graphics. \nRegister for the Workshop
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-transparency-series-data-visualization/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
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SUMMARY:The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Can climate fiction help overcome political friction? \nWhen climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction\, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why\, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable communities encounter off-the-charts climate extremes. A notable exception is the prize-winning work of Kim Stanley Robinson\, one of the planet’s most lauded living novelists of science fiction—and one who builds sweeping visions of profoundly altered\, but functioning\, civilizations on (and off) a deeply disrupted planet.  \nIn a rare stop at Columbia\, Robinson will shift his focus to the present and speak on shaping public imaginations toward an embrace the Green New Deal\, released one year ago. \nHe’ll then have a climate conversation with the audience; Kate Wagner\, architecture critic at the New Republic and contributor to Curbed\, The Atlantic\, and other publications; and Dr. Maureen Raymo\, a paleoceanographer at Columbia’s Earth Institute who studies the history of climate change and sea level rise. The moderator will be Andrew Revkin\, who’s been writing on global warming since the 1980s and is now directing a new Earth Institute initiative on communication and sustainability. \nRegister at brwn.co/kst \n\nAbout our partners\n \nThe Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability\, launched in 2019\, is testing and spreading communication and media innovations that can cut climate risk and foster sustainable human progress. For more information\, see sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu.  \nThe Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture was founded in 1982. Its mission is to advance the interdisciplinary study of American architecture\, urbanism\, and landscape. A separately endowed entity within the Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation\, it sponsors research projects\, workshops\, public programs\, publications\, and awards. For more information\, see buellcenter.columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-green-new-deal-shaping-a-public-imagination-with-kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20200205T202949Z
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SUMMARY:Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram\, Host of Vox's Today\, Explained
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram\, host of Today\, Explained\, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox\, Today\, Explained is your all killer\, no filler\, Monday to Friday news. Sean\, a veteran of the podcast space\, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director Maneesh Agrawala in conversation about the state of podcasts. Before joining Vox to host its daily news podcast\, Sean was a correspondent for Radiolab’s More Perfect. He has also made radio for the CBC\, NPR\, and WNYC\, where he hosted the fondly remembered Sideshow podcast for Studio 360. \nTuesday\, February 18 – 5pm\nAllen 101x\, Cypress Auditorium \nPaul G. Allen Building\n330 Jane Stanford Way \nRSVP for the Event
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-speaker-series-featuring-sean-rameswaram-host-of-voxs-today-explained/
LOCATION:Cypress Auditorium\, Allen Extension\, 420 Via Palou Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200216T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20200127T191038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200127T191038Z
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SUMMARY:Immersive Storytelling - Photogrammetry & Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:From augmented\, mixed and virtual reality\, to 3D storytelling\, immersive technologies provide new opportunities for journalists to broaden their stories and engage readers. While these technologies have been deployed in museum spaces\, game design\, and architecture/planning\, journalism has been slow to move beyond 360-degree video and basic implementations of augmented reality. When outlets such as the Washington Post and The New York Times experiment with these technologies\, they have been met with excitement and adoption. Some examples include Ashley Graham Unfiltered\, See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City’s\, and the Economist’s Snapchat Lenses on future food. \nJoin Ziv Schneider\, Creative Technologist at the Brown Institute\, for a two-day weekend to learn about and employ photogrammetry and augmented reality in a storytelling capacity. In the workshop\, students will be introduced to the techniques\, affordances\, and promise of immersive technologies\, and will leave with a working prototype on their personal smartphone/tablet. No prior experience is required. \nThe workshop will take place on Saturday and Sunday\, February 15-16\, from 11AM – 3PM. You must be able to attend both days in order to apply. \nOn Saturday\, participants will learn about 3D capture\, using smartphones to create 3D models for immersive visual experiences. Students will be introduced to basic terminology and will get an up-to-date view into the tools and technologies currently available. On Sunday\, students will take 3D assets developed on day 1 and put them to use\, creating custom augmented reality experiences.  \nSign up at brwn.co/photo-ar. If you have any questions\, contact Ziv Schneider at zs2460@columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/immersive-storytelling-photogrammetry-augmented-reality/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20191212T205848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191212T205911Z
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation - Travis Oliphant
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute and the Foundations for Research Computing program welcomes Travis Oliphant\, CEO at OpenTeams and Quansight\, founder of Anaconda\, and creator of NumPy\, to deliver a Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation at the Brown Institute on February 13th\, 2020. \nAbout Travis Oliphant \nTravis E. Oliphant is a Founder and CEO/CTO of Quansight\, an innovation incubation company that builds and connects companies with open-source communities to help both gain actionable\, quantitative insight from their data. In 2019\, Travis Co-founded OpenTeams\, a partner company of Quansight\, which aims to enable sustainable funding opportunities for open source software. Travis previously co-founded Anaconda Inc. and is still a Director. Since 1997\, he has worked in the Python ecosystem\, notably as the primary creator of the NumPy package and as a founding contributor of the SciPy package. Travis also started the Numba project and organized and led the teams that built Conda\, Dask\, Bokeh\, and XND. Travis has a Ph.D. from the Mayo Clinic and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-in-computational-innovation-travis-oliphant/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200201T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200201T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20190917T211913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190917T211913Z
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Presenter\nJohn Keefe\, Quartz \nWorkshop Description\nData\, code and algorithms are changing systems of power in our world\, often without sufficient critical assessment or accountability. Today’s journalists need to understand how these forces operate\, engaging the underlying computational tools and techniques. At the same time\, the ways journalists understand the world and communicate their observations to audiences are also being reshaped by the abundance of data and accessible software to surface stories. Reporters today have an incredible variety of data to work with – from a spreadsheet of Census data\, to a collection of Tweets\, to frames of videos\, to a compendium of online political ads. This is the raw material of “computational journalism.” The tools for expressing structure in these rich data sources\, for finding and telling stories\, can be grouped under the name “machine learning.” Through this 1-day workshop\, students will work with John Keefe of Quartz to explore the possibilities of Machine Learning as a form of reporting. \nRegister for the Workshop
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-transparency-series-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Reporting on Twitter
DESCRIPTION:Presenter\nCraig Silverman\, BuzzFeed \nWorkshop Description\nTwitter is not just a source of updates from friends and happenings in the local community. Instead\, it is a dense network embedded with narratives of how the world is structured\, including how information flows and spreads\, both within and outside of communities. The platform is host to policy announcements from the President of the United States\, and demonstrated in the previous election to be a hotbed of mis-/dis-information. Therefore\, it is imperative that we\, as journalists\, know how to effectively question and interrogate the platform. This workshop will spend the day teaching students how to report on Twitter\, understanding the network\, individuals\, communities\, and how information propogates and trends. \nRegister for the Workshop
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-transparency-series-reporting-on-twitter/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T130000
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SUMMARY:Points Unknown Mapping Module III: Web Maps / Mapbox.js
DESCRIPTION:News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies\, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories. But these interactions haven’t always been easy to produce. \nPoints Unknown will train journalism students in GIS and mapping techniques\, and will prompt them to ask questions such as: What data are made public? What do they say about life in the city? How are neighborhoods rendered in data and what are the consequences of those representations? What undiscovered stories can be found in visualizing geographies of data? The module will focus on introducing core methods to engaging with / producing both static\, annotated\, and web-based maps — and will provide an introduction to spatial data. Spatial training paired with journalism can serve as a missing “integrator” of data and the real world—providing lessons that travel beyond the boroughs of New York. \nIn Fall 2019\, the Brown Institute will conduct a set of four workshops focused on introducing mapping as a tool for discovery and expression. Details of each of the sessions can be seen below: \nWeek 1 – Intro to Mapping / QGIS\nWeek 2 – Intro to Annotated Maps / Illustrator\nWeek 3 – Intro to Web Maps / Mapbox.js\nWeek 4 – Intro to Satellite Imagery / Google Earth Engine \nYou are not required to attend all sessions\, but it is strongly encouraged as many of the core concepts travel across the technologies. For more information about the program\, see https://pointsunknown.nyc. \nRegister at brwn.co/fall19-map.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/points-unknown-mapping-module-iii-web-maps-mapbox-js/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191111T130000
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SUMMARY:Points Unknown Mapping Module II: Annotated Maps / Illustrator
DESCRIPTION:News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies\, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories. But these interactions haven’t always been easy to produce. \nPoints Unknown will train journalism students in GIS and mapping techniques\, and will prompt them to ask questions such as: What data are made public? What do they say about life in the city? How are neighborhoods rendered in data and what are the consequences of those representations? What undiscovered stories can be found in visualizing geographies of data? The module will focus on introducing core methods to engaging with / producing both static\, annotated\, and web-based maps — and will provide an introduction to spatial data. Spatial training paired with journalism can serve as a missing “integrator” of data and the real world—providing lessons that travel beyond the boroughs of New York. \nIn Fall 2019\, the Brown Institute will conduct a set of four workshops focused on introducing mapping as a tool for discovery and expression. Details of each of the sessions can be seen below: \nWeek 1 – Intro to Mapping / QGIS\nWeek 2 – Intro to Annotated Maps / Illustrator\nWeek 3 – Intro to Web Maps / Mapbox.js\nWeek 4 – Intro to Satellite Imagery / Google Earth Engine \nYou are not required to attend all sessions\, but it is strongly encouraged as many of the core concepts travel across the technologies. For more information about the program\, see https://pointsunknown.nyc. \nRegister at brwn.co/fall19-map.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/points-unknown-mapping-module-ii-annotated-maps-illustrator/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191104T130000
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SUMMARY:Points Unknown Mapping Module I: Intro to Mapping / QGIS
DESCRIPTION:News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies\, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories. But these interactions haven’t always been easy to produce. \nPoints Unknown will train journalism students in GIS and mapping techniques\, and will prompt them to ask questions such as: What data are made public? What do they say about life in the city? How are neighborhoods rendered in data and what are the consequences of those representations? What undiscovered stories can be found in visualizing geographies of data? The module will focus on introducing core methods to engaging with / producing both static\, annotated\, and web-based maps — and will provide an introduction to spatial data. Spatial training paired with journalism can serve as a missing “integrator” of data and the real world—providing lessons that travel beyond the boroughs of New York. \nIn Fall 2019\, the Brown Institute will conduct a set of four workshops focused on introducing mapping as a tool for discovery and expression. Details of each of the sessions can be seen below: \nWeek 1 – Intro to Mapping / QGIS\nWeek 2 – Intro to Annotated Maps / Illustrator\nWeek 3 – Intro to Web Maps / Mapbox.js\nWeek 4 – Intro to Satellite Imagery / Google Earth Engine \nYou are not required to attend all sessions\, but it is strongly encouraged as many of the core concepts travel across the technologies. For more information about the program\, see https://pointsunknown.nyc. \nRegister at brwn.co/fall19-map.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/points-unknown-mapping-module-i-intro-to-mapping-qgis/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T140000
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SUMMARY:Mapping Data Flows - How the Largest Tech Firms Use Your Data
DESCRIPTION:Join John Battelle — Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at SIPA\, and Co-Founder & CEO of Recount Media — and a team of researchers from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, the Journalism School and SIPA\, in understanding how the largest technology companies collect\, use\, and share user information across the internet. We’ve transformed the “Big Four” (Apple\, Google\, Amazon\, Facebook) terms of service and data policies — the thousands of lines of code that govern their use of your data — into a database powering an interactive visualization\, an initial version of which we invite you to explore and critique. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by SIPA’s TMac\, Management Specialization\, Tech & Policy Initiative\, Entrepreneurship & Public Policy Initiative\, Brown Institute for Media Innovation. \n\nLunch will be served. \nRegister for the event at eventbrite.com.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/mapping-data-flows-how-the-largest-tech-firms-use-your-data/
LOCATION:International Affairs Building 1501\, 420 W 118th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191026T170000
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Natural Language Processing
DESCRIPTION:Presenter\nAllison Parrish\, NYU \nWorkshop Description\nMuch like other forms of data\, documents and text provide enormous potential as a form of data to be analyzed and visualized. This workshop will introduce and discuss the ways in which textual materials (news articles\, government records\, social media\, and other primary sources) can be worked with as data in creative and insightful ways. Participants in this workshop will be exposed to some common techniques for textual analysis and representation of documents common in contemporary practice. Participants will be led through creative exercises around the intersection of computation and language as a way to gain familiarity and comfort with this medium. The workshop will involve a bit of programming in Python to allow participants to work with\, visualize\, and generate text in interesting ways. \nRegister for the Workshop
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-transparency-series-natural-language-processing/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191023T200000
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SUMMARY:How Charts Lie - A Talk by Alberto Cairo
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words\, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? \nCharts\, infographics\, and diagrams are ubiquitous. They are useful because they can reveal patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. Good charts make us smarter—if we know how to read them. \nHowever\, they can also deceive us. Charts lie in a variety of ways—displaying incomplete or inaccurate data\, suggesting misleading patterns\, and concealing uncertainty— or are frequently misunderstood. Many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians\, journalists\, advertisers\, and even our employers present each day. We need to learn to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals\, but also to take advantage of good ones. In this talk\, Alberto Cairo demystifies an essential new literacy\, one that will make us better equipped to navigate our data-driven world. \nRegister for the talk at howchartslie.eventbrite.com \n\n \nAbout Alberto Cairo \nAlberto Cairo is a journalist and designer\, and the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami (UM). He is also the director of the visualization program at UM’s Center for Computational Science. He has been head of information graphics at media publications in Spain and Brazil. The author of several books such as ‘How Charts Lie’ (2019) and ‘The Truthful Art; (2016)\, Cairo currently consults with companies and institutions like Google\, and has provided visualization training to the European Union\, Eurostat\, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, the Army National Guard\, and many others. He lives in Miami\, Florida.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/howchartslie/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T200000
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SUMMARY:2019 Brown Institute Annual Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Mark Hansen and Maneesh Agrawala cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2019 Showcase! \nJoin us for a reception and exhibition of our 2018-2019 projects. \nOctober 17\, 2019 – 6:00pm\nat the Brown Institute\nat Columbia University \n\n\nDescriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place in the Brown Institute\, located in Pulitzer Hall (2950 Broadway) at Columbia University.\n\n\n\nArtistic Vision. The crucial footage for breaking news reports often comes from eye witnesses\, “citizen journalists\,” using their smartphones. While these videos often do not meet the quality standards set by news organizations\, there is a hesitation to perform much post-processing to improve the content — in the spirit of being accurate and truthful. With their Magic Grant\, two Computer Scientists\, Jane E and Ohad Fried\, will help people capture higher quality content and\, ultimately\, contribute more impactful\, immediate\, on-scene documentation of breaking events. E and Fried will create tools that overlay directly on the screen of a traditional camera\, dynamically augmenting the current view of a scene with information that will help people make better photo capture decisions. “Our hope is that such interfaces will empower users to be more intentional about their storytelling and artistic decisions while taking photos.” \n  \nAudiovisual Analysis of 10 Years of TV News. Ten years of U.S. TV News — Since 2009\, the Internet Archive has been actively curating a collection of news broadcasts from across the country\, assembling a corpus of over 200\,000 hours of video. Computer Scientists Will Crichton and Haotian Zhang will perform an in-depth longitudinal study of this video collection\, scanning for patterns in both audio as well as visual trends. How has coverage of different topics changed over the years? How often do women get cut off in conversation versus men? What is the relationship between still images and subject? How does clothing and fashion differ across networks and shows? This project will tackle these and many other difficult questions\, demonstrating the new potential for large-scale video analysis. This Magic Grant will build on a previous grant from Brown\, also led by Will Crichton\, called Esper. That project created an open-source software infrastructure that helped journalists and researchers “scale up” their investigations\, to analyze\, visualize and query extremely large video collections. \n  \nBigLocal News. State patrols stop and search drivers in every state\, but until recently it has been nearly impossible to understand what they’ve been doing — and whether these searches discriminate against certain drivers. The data was scattered across jurisdictions\, “public” but not online\, and in a dizzying variety of formats. In 2014\, Cheryl Phillips began the Stanford Open Policing Project to provide open\, ongoing and consistent access to police stop data in 31 states\, and created a new statistical test for discrimination. This is just one example of how sharing local data an improve local journalism. Phillips — together with Columbia Journalist Jonathan Stray\, Stanford Electrical Engineering PhD student Irena Fischer-Hwang\, and Columbia Journalism/Computer Science MS student Erin Riglin — was awarded a Magic Grant to build on this success\, creating a pipeline that will enable more local accountability journalism and boost the likelihood of big policy impact. The team will collect\, clean\, archive and distribute data that can be used to tell important journalistic stories. The data will be archived in the Stanford Digital Repository\, and the teams work will also help extend Columbia’s Workbench computational platform\, making the analysis of local data broadly available to even novice data journalists. \n  \nCharleston Reconstructed. Particularly in the American South\, historical memory is distorted by outdated structures in public spaces. Antebellum and Confederate era monuments celebrate the oppressive legacy of white men and exclude the contributions of women and people of color to American society\, complicating claims to equality in the present. White supremacists gather around them\, local governments fight over whether to remove them\, and activists tear them down. It’s a slow moving process toward creating a physical space that reflects more current ideas about the past and present. With a seed grant\, Columbia Documentary Journalism student Robert Tokanel\, Stanford Computer Scientist Kyle Qian\, and Stanford undergraduates Khoi Le and Hope Schroeder will help audiences imagine a powerful new reality. The team will work toward digitally transforming public spaces in Charleston\, South Carolina\, using narrative film techniques and augmented reality to flip the power structures of the past\, hoping to expose users to a range of perspectives about the value of monuments as they currently stand. \n  \n \nDecoding Differences in DNA Forensic Software. Imagine testing the fingernail scrapings of a murder victim to determine if a suspect could be the killer\, only to have one DNA interpretation software program incriminate the suspect and a different program absolve them. Such a scenario played out two years ago in the widely-publicized murder trial of Oral Nicholas Hillary\, raising questions that the criminal justice system still cannot answer: why\, when\, and by how much do these programs differ from one another? To answer these questions\, this Magic Grant assembles a multi-disciplinary team — Jeanna Matthews is a Computer Scientist; Nathan Adams\, a DNA investigations specialist; Jessica Goldthwaite with The Legal Aid Society; Dan Krane\, a Biologist; Surya Mattu\, a Journalist; and David Madigan\, a Statistician. This Magic Grant project will systematically compare forensic DNA software\, moving the story beyond anecdotal examples to a systematic investigative strategy. In the process\, they will explore important issues of algorithmic transparency\, and the role of complex software systems in the criminal justice system and beyond. \n  \n \nDemocracy Fighters. Ninety-two journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. Contrary to popular belief\, these reporters did not die as the result of generalized violence. Instead\, they were targeted. Their deaths cannot be understood without reading and listening to their work. Consequently\, the worth of their journalism — and the risks they undertook — cannot be fully comprehended without understanding the rich context and history of the places where they lived\, the social forces they faced\, and the stories they told. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul\, a Journalist want to give these reporters’ work a home and provide that context so that “through this repository\, their fight for democracy will continue.” \n  \n“Casting the Vote: A Call to a Count” is a collaboration between documentary filmmaker June Cross; director Charlotte Brathwaite\, a 2019 Creative Capital Awardee; dramaturg Sunder Ganglani\, writer Janani Balasubramanian and musician Justin Hicks. They are working on a new way to bring journalism to an audience and to engage them in the issues facing our democracy.  They have gathered a formidable group of theatre artists\, young performers\, chefs\, and community organizers to bring my journalistic research on voter suppression to diverse audiences in new ways\, and get them seriously engaged in the urgent issues haunting the very core of our democracy. This FREE evening at La Mama is a dinner\, a party\, a call to action\, a gathering\, a survival guide for troubling times. There’s documentary\, live music\, performance\, food; and most of all\, there’s deep and pluralistic conversation. Together\, they will examine historical and contemporary voter suppression and chew on the upcoming 2020 census–all in an effort to understand ‘who counts’ in America\, and how we might come to count on one another in the struggle for democracy\, justice\, and a more perfect union. \n  \nLearning to Engage in Conversations for AI Systems. People are interacting with artificial intelligence (AI) systems more every day. AI systems play roles in call centers\, mental health support\, and workplace team structures. As AI systems enter these human environments\, they  inevitably will need to interact with people in order to achieve their goals. Most AI systems to date\, however\, have focused entirely on performance and rarely\, if at all\, on their social interactions with people\, and how to balance the AI’s goals against their human collaborators’ goals. Success requires learning quickly  how to interact with people in the real world. Stanford Computer Scientists Ranjay Krishna and Apoorva Dornadula were awarded a Magic Grant to create a conversational AI agent on Instagram\, where it will learn to ask engaging questions of people about the photos they upload. Its goal will be to simultaneously learn new facts about the visual world by asking questions\, and learn how to interact with people around their photos in order to expand its knowledge of those concepts. \n  \nLineage. \nLineage is an artificially intelligent engine that enables the exploration of digitized visual archives in a human-like manner. With Lineage\, the user can input any image\, and get in return visually similar images from thousands of years of art and design. The returned images are not identical to the input but rather give the user the visual context in which it exists\, allowing for a deeper understanding of the input image. Lineage uses the publicly available databases of art and design institutions\, museums\, archives and libraries. It eschews verbal\, keyword-based search\, preferring a visual\, open-ended\, non-definitive result schema. Its similarity algorithm relies on colors\, shapes\, patterns and their layered combinations\, mimicking the way humans look at objects\, and encouraging serendipitous connections across time periods\, location of origin\, creator and mediums: clothing\, craft\, furniture\, architecture\, graphic and industrial design\, visual arts and so on. \n  \n  \nNeverEnding 360. \nNews organizations like The New York Times and The Guardian have experimented with fast-paced\, serial production schedules for 360 videos\, hoping to prove out the medium. While 360 videos offer viewers with more freedom to explore scenes in a story\, that freedom also poses an added challenge to directors and creators. Because users can be looking anywhere at any time\, they might be looking in the wrong direction while important events or actions in a story take place\, outside the user’s field of view. By contrast\, Virtual Reality environments can address this problem by controlling the animation of objects\, perhaps having a scene pause or loop until the user is looking in the right direction. With her Magic Grant\, Computer Scientist Sean Liu will consider how to adapt these strategies to 360 videos\, providing better storytelling without compromising the immersive feeling of these videos. \n  \n  \nParaFrame. \nStories come in many forms\, and in a wide range of detail — from casual anecdotes told among friends\, to epic Hollywood blockbusters\, heavily engineered and rendered in vivid high-definition. But regardless of how they are told\, great stories do not simply appear fully formed in the mind; they are inspired by the work of others\, crafted with familiar tools\, and refined through iteration. The Magic Grant team of Computer Scientists Abe Davis and Mackenzie Leake will provide users with tools that focus on the construction of a narrative (specifically\, through the writing of a script or the posing of rough character sketches) and use algorithms to search the Internet for visuals that can be repurposed or remixed to fit that narrative. In doing so\, their work will offer an accessible way for untrained users to learn from and build on the work of experts. \n  \nWhen Deportation is a Death Sentence. \nSarah Stillman\, Staff Writer at The New Yorker\, will lead a team to build the first-ever searchable database of deaths-by-deportation\, in a manner that is empirically rigorous\, narratively engaging\, and visually stunning. The team will merge cutting-edge data journalism (pursued alongside foreign correspondence in refugee camps\, migrant shelters\, mortuaries) with  technological innovation (focusing on the aesthetic power of the mobile experience) to build a practical but elegant database that turns their massive spreadsheet into an unshakable story. The team includes the powerful data visualization expertise of Giorgia Lupi\, co-founder of Accurat. They will make their findings and ongoing investigation accessible through a website that amplifies the very best of what Lupi calls “data humanism.” In Stillman’s words\, “Absent this new effort to bring these data to light\, the stories will remain buried\, unspoken\, and unaccounted-for in the public record.”
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/showcase-19/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Brown Welcomes Washington Post Director of Engineering Jeremy Bowers
DESCRIPTION:Stanford welcomed Jeremy Bowers\, Director of Engineering\, at The Washington Post. Bowers and his team are ramping up for the 2020 election\, focusing on political data projects including election restyles\, congressional votes and campaign finance. Bowers spoke on October 15 to an interdisciplinary group of Stanford students (compute science\, engineering and business\, among others). He described how his team\, which sits at the intersection of engineering and news\, mesh coding and journalistic skills and the importance of cross-team collaboration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AOkIkfoXA&feature=youtu.be
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-welcomes-washington-post-director-of-engineering-jeremy-bowers/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T111500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T120000
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SUMMARY:The Quest for Balance: Technology\, Innovation and the Public Good in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Talk and discussion with Dr. Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez\, Ph.D.\nExecutive Director of Foundation Relations and researcher at The University of Texas at Austin. \nTechnical skills are paramount to succeed in the modern labor market – but the question remains\, what are the attributes and skills needed to make an impact on the social good? Who determines this and who decides and how does this impact vulnerable students in the U.S.? My first aim is to examine how well our existing higher education system encourages high-quality matches of students to professions in order to maximize national production. This is particularly important in STEM where a focus on investments in innovation and workforce development is paramount. The policies that articulate this importance are based both upon private interests and serving the public good. \nDr. Bradshaw de Hernandez works closely with advancement and academic leadership to prioritize and execute fundraising programs and initiatives that attract significant foundation support. Dr. Bradshaw de Hernandez’ research interests include the intersection of science and technological innovations\, risk perceptions and job security in building a transformational U.S. workforce focused on social good. \nPreviously\, she served as Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Stony Brook University in New York. She graduated from Cornell University\, College of Human Ecology\, with a Bachelor of Science in Human Service Studies concentrating in Social Policy and Community Development. She received her Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University\, Teachers College\, an Advanced Certificate in Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University\, and her Doctorate from Stony Brook University\, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Technology\, Policy and Innovation.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-quest-for-balance-technology-innovation-and-the-public-good-in-higher-education/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation featuring Stephanie Hankey\, Tactical Tech
DESCRIPTION:“Go to The Glass Room. If Black Mirror Had a Showroom\, This Would Be It.” – Baratunde Thurston \nNearly 150\,000 people in 30 countries have visited the Glassroom; an interactive public intervention reflecting on the impact of technology on society. As the doors of the Glassroom open in San Francisco\, its co-curator Stephanie Hankey gives a sneak preview of the conversation they expect to have as they bring this critical exhibition to the home of Big tech. Digging inside some of the issues presented there\, she will talk about Tactical Tech’s groundbreaking work investigating over 350 companies who sell personal data for political influence and why we should care. She will share insights from their latest work ‘Efficiency and Madness’ critiquing blindspots in technology design\, as well as their struggle to answer the most commonly asked question of all\, ‘what can we do?’. \nRegister to attend at brwn.co/tactical-tech \n  \nAbout Stephanie Hankey\nStephanie Hankey is a designer\, technologist\, and social entrepreneur who has worked internationally at the intersection of technology and human rights for the past 20 years. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Tactical Tech\, a Berlin-based NGO that since 2003 has worked with millions of people worldwide\, helping them better understand how to control their data\, digital privacy and security. She is the co-founder of the creative agency Tactical Studios and the co-curator of the exhibition Nervous Systems and the traveling exhibition: The Glass Room. She teaches\, writes and consults to companies\, NGOs and governments on the ethical design of technology\, has a degree in Design History\, and an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art. She was a visiting fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard and a Visiting Industry Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. \n\nThe Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series highlights programmers\, data scientists\, and other practitioners from the private sector who lead cutting-edge technology initiatives such as Python\, C++\, and the Open Source Initiative. The events\, which take place over the fall and spring semesters\, include a presentation\, Question & Answer session\, and networking reception. All Columbia University students\, faculty\, postdocs\, and administrators are welcome to register and attend these events. The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is proud to partner with the Foundations for Research Computing program and the Data Science Institute for the Distinguished Lectures series. \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/steph-hankey/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20191009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20191009T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
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SUMMARY:Lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters
DESCRIPTION:El Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, el Comité de Protección a Periodistas\, Artículo 19\, y Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl cordialmente te invitan al lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters\, un archivo viviente. \nEsta plataforma es un archivo digital que agrega y conserva los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México. Desde el año 2000\, han sido asesinados 111 periodistas y trabajadores de medios\, convirtiendo a México en uno de los países más letales para ejercer el periodismo\, según el Comité de Protección a Periodistas. A la fecha\, Democracy Fighters ha recuperado más de 12\,000 publicaciones de 40 periodistas que abarcan 30 años y documentan una variedad de temas. \nAcompáñanos en la presentación y exhibición de la plataforma que agrega y honra los trabajos de estos periodistas\, seguida de una recepción con Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul\, creadora de Democracy Fighters. \nEste proyecto fue posible gracias a un Magic Grant del Brown Institute for Media Innovation y una donación de Lila Gault y Bill Arp. \nPor favor confirma tu asistencia en brwn.co/df \n  \n\n  \nThe Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, the Committee to Protect Journalists\, Article 19\, and Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl cordially invite you to the launch of Democracy Fighters\, a living archive. \nThis platform is a digital archive that aggregates and preserves the works of journalists killed in Mexico. Since 2000\, 111 journalists and media workers have been killed in the country\, turning it into one of the deadliest to be a reporter in the world\, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Democracy Fighters currently hosts over 12\,000 clips from 40 journalists spanning over 30 years\, which document a variety of topics throughout the country. \nJoin us for a presentation and exhibition of the platform that aggregates and honors the work of journalists killed in Mexico\, followed by a reception featuring Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul\, creator of Democracy Fighters. \nThis project was made possible through a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and a gift from Lila Gault and Bill Arp. \nRegister at brwn.co/df \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/el-lanzamiento-de-democracy-fighters/
LOCATION:Casa Refugio Citlaltepetl\, Citlaltépetl 25\, Hipódromo Condesa\, Ciudad de México\, Mexico City\, 06170\, Mexico
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars,Receptions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191008T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191008T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162351
CREATED:20190920T151546Z
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SUMMARY:Brown Institute for Media Innovation Presents Nicholas Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Photo by: Mark Mann/WWD \nEditor-in-Chief of WIRED magazine\, Nick Thompson will discuss media trends with Brown Institute Director Maneesh Agrawala.\nRSVP: BIT.LY/BIMITHOMPSON\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-institute-for-media-innovation-presents-nicholas-thompson/
LOCATION:Paul G. Allen Building 101X\, 330 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, 94305\, United States
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