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  • 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 your data-driven story, and colleagues to learn from your work. But until now, reproducibility has required programming. Workbench is a new platform for data journalism

  • 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 site about politics, economics, and everyday life.   RSVP is requested but not required.

  • 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 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

  • Transparency Series Seminar: Reporting on Devices with Surya Mattu

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

    More than ever, objects in our homes and on our person are connected, sharing data about our lived experience with companies and with the public. How do we measure what

  • Knowing Together – Exhibition

    Offit Gallery | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor, New York City, NY, United States

    Knowing Together is a project exploring the dimensions of intimacy through 3D scanning. The exhibition was born out of a workshop and commissioned by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Reporting on Devices with Consumer Reports

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

    Most consumer advocacy is based on a definition of consumer rights anchored on two things: value and safety. While these issues are perennial concerns for consumers, they don’t capture the

  • 2018-2019 SPEAKER SERIES: FELICE FRANKEL

    Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

    SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHER & MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST On January 30, the Brown Institute welcomes celebrated science photographer and MIT Research Scientist Felice Frankel. She will offer a masterclass on "Image and Meaning" and discuss her new book "Picturing Science and Engineering" (MIT Press) in which she offers a guide for creating science images that are both

  • Mapping Module 1 – Introduction to Mapping

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

    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

  • Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Yi-Min Chee

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

    Blockchain: A Solutions Perspective Yi-Min Chee Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect, IBM Food Trust Blockchain Solution Abstract. Blockchain technology has moved beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies to start to address