Ashish Goel and Tanja Aitamurto represented the Stanford Crowdsourced Democracy Team last week at a White House conference organized by Lynn Overmann, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. They gave a small presentation
Brown at ITP Summer Camp
The Brown Institute is proud to sponsor 10 Columbia Journalism alums for a month at ITP Camp. This is the fifth summer that ITP, the Interactive Telecommunication Program at the NYU
Participatory Democracy Trial
The Participatory Democracy team at Stanford, led by Professor Ashish Goel from MS&E and Tanja Aitamurto from Stanford, UC Berkeley and University of Tampere, Finland, conducted a successful trial of their online
2014-15 Magic Grants Awarded!
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation has awarded seed funding to teams of students, post-docs and faculty from Stanford and Columbia universities to develop new technologies that could transform the
1 1/2 months until our opening!
Work on the Brown Institute space at Columbia hit a milestone today as the floor started to be installed! We are on schedule to take occupancy in June, but this
Brown Fellow David Chen wins Capocelli Award
David Chen’s paper, “Interframe Coding of Global Image Signatures for Mobile Augmented Reality,” presented in March at the Data Compression Conference, has been selected to receive the prestigious Capocelli Award, given
Brown/Tow Award
We are pleased to announce The Award for Excellence in Computational Journalism co-sponsored by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. It honors work
Bushwig at PCA/ACA
Adam and Jessa from the Bushwig Magic Grant will present their work at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Meeting in Chicago this week. They will speak on identity curation, or rather,