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  • 2018 Brown Institute Showcase

    2018 Brown Institute Showcase

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Maneesh Agrawala and Mark Hansen cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2018 Showcase! Join us for a reception and exhibition of our 2017-2018 projects. October 5,

  • Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Lorena Barba

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall), the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight

  • d.school Pop Up: reDesigning Local Media

    Hasso Plattner School of Design 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA, United States

    In this three-session workshop, we will explore the intersection of media and design through both a publishing and technology product design lens. Teams will work in partnership with local media

  • Transparency Series Seminar: Polling with Amanda Cox

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Join us for a discussion with Amanda Cox from the Upshot at the New York Times who will discuss polling and its importance in the political races. As the 2018

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Polling with FiveThirtyEight

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The first workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Janie Velencia and Dhrumil Mehta who lead Pollapalooza at

  • Media Innovation Seminar: Whither VR? with Kate Parsons and Ben Vance

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Video artist and educator Kate Parsons and VR Veteran Ben Vance explore art and design through emerging technology at FLOAT, a collaborative entity focusing on the intersection of art and

  • Blockchain in Journalism: Promise and Practice

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Brown Institute and the Tow Center have collaborated on an event for students, reporters, editors, scholars, and entrepreneurs about the current state of blockchain technology and how it can

  • Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics, Privacy, and Data

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    In the current political climate, opening up access to research and research data can be both a moral imperative and a careless decision that puts the lives and livelihood of

  • 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Google’s Simon Rogers

    Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

    RSVP In the run-up to the midterm elections, Google’s data editor, Simon Rogers, will join the Brown Institute at Stanford for a conversation about his book “Facts are Sacred” as

  • Media Innovation Seminar: On Algorithmic Bias with Jeff Larson

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Larson, formerly a Senior Reporter for ProPublica and now co-founder of TBA, a new journalistic site that will report on how algorithms work and influence media. In his talk Larson

  • Reproducible Data Journalism without Code

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Join Krishna Bharat, creator of Google News and Jonathan Stray, designer of Workbench to discuss reproducible data journalism without code. Reproducibility allows readers and journalists to see how you produced

  • Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Eric Xing

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall), the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight

  • Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times

    Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

    New York Times graphics editor Kevin Quealy will join the Brown Institute for Media innovation in conversation about innovations in data visualization and his work at The Upshot, the Times’s

  • Free Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect”

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    This panel is the second in a series of events examining the role that the First Amendment should play in assessing the lawfulness of government surveillance. The first panel addressed legal doctrine and the skepticism with which courts view the claim that surveillance “chills” free speech. This second panel will assess the chilling effect. Does

  • Transparency Series Seminar: Voice Interfaces with Joseph Price of Washington Post and Tommy O’Keefe, Vincent Farquharson & Nara Kasbergen of NPR

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Voice assistants are changing the way people search for and consume content. By one estimate, half of the adults in the US make use of voice interfaces — for now, mostly on their smartphones. But with the steady improvement of voice recognition, smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, Apple’s HomePod constitute new platforms for

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Voice Interfaces with Washington Post & NPR

    Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    Authoring experiences for a voice assistant or smart speaker is a combination of several distinct skillsets. Some conversational interfaces are driven by keywords, depending on users stating specific terms, while others involve artificial intelligence to create more natural conversations around content. The content itself is a product of both editorial work as well as programming