Events at Stanford
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21:33 Oct 12, 2021
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: https://ohyay.co/s/2021-showcase Maneesh Agrawala and Mark Hansen cordially invite you to the 2021 Magic Grant Showcase, highlighting projects from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation! Join us for a virtual reception starting at 7:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm PDT) on October 14, 2021 to be held in a special space hosted by ohyay.co and designed by the Brown Institute. The event features a unique mix of journalists and technologists, all funded through the 2020-21 Magic Grant program. The projects this year are incredibly strong. One team has built an audio storytelling platform that uses geolocation to connect participants to stories of people, places, and things that they walk by. Another has assembled a repository of email chains from officials in local and state governments, capturing how they addressed the COVID-19 pandemic — this database has led to almost 100 publications. One Magic Grant has built high-level abstractions for understanding and describing s...