So much fun!!!

For this week's The New Yorker, I wrote about the strange world of restaurant reservations—and the table scalpers, bots and mercenaries who have made it almost impossible to dine out
newyorker.com/news/our-local…

This has been so much fun watching develop. That's to Eric Chen, our Director of Creative Research, for his help on this.

If you can make it to American Museum of Natural History next Saturday, it will be a lot of fun! Carbon Catchers!

Our hackathon with Hacks/Hackers and Hugging Face and Codingscape (with additional support from the NSF) was just written up in CJR! Thanks to everyone who made this such a great weekend! (Cue the spacey blue graphic 🙂)

cjr.org/the_media_toda…

What a spectacular weekend!!! Thanks to Burt and Jenny and all our partners on this! Great weekend! So inspiring!

This is so exciting! We're hitting the ground running with this second-place win.

A short writeup of our Venture Challenge. Congratulations to all our participants!

brown.columbia.edu/the-winners-of…

AI x Journalism hackathon hosted by Hacks/Hackers and The Brown Institute April 5-7, with Hugging Face and Codingscape. Apply here! lu.ma/hh-ai-hackatho…

We made 100!!

Calling all devs! 🚀 From Apr 5-7, Columbia University's The Brown Institute & @hackshackers are hosting an exciting open-source AI hackathon focused on journalism and civic information with support from Hugging Face.🤗

Register now! ➡️ tinyurl.com/mbcdadtm

So proud of the team! Including Katie Watson from @browninstitute. Great work everyone!!

Tomorrow night! Our next “dine and design” event. Generative AI prototyping time… and dinner!

Next Wednesday from 6-9pm we are hosting another gen AI “dine and design”. Come for dinner, stay to build something! Pulitzer Hall The Brown Institute!

The last episode of 'Reaching for Air' is out! Congrats to Alixel Cabrera, Saige Miller, Katie Watson & Michael Krisch of the The Brown Institute! The series involved an enormous number of interviews--What do Salt Lake residents think about their air quality? reachingforair.sltrib.com

The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge is open for submissions! The The Brown Institute sponsors a 'Media Track' for new ventures in journalism and media.

The deadline is February 9! The competition is open to @columbia students and recent alums.

brown.columbia.edu/announcing-the…

Some photos from the recent #WikipediaDay #Bias in #ArtificialIntelligence Panel Monday.

1️⃣ - AfroCROWD ED Sherry Antoine speaking at the Columbia University Journalism School's The Brown Institute in Pulitzer Hall on a panel focused on bias in artificial intelligence.
2️⃣ - Featured panelist

CATCHUP WEBCAST - Wikipedia Day NYC 2024 Track 2 #Wikipedia23 #wikipedia #wikipedia day #AI #journalism Wikimedia NYC The Brown Institute isoc.live/17212 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Yesterday we helped Wikimedia NYC celebrate Wikipedia Day! 237 Wikipedians and the people who love their work talked Wikipedia, journalism and AI. This image was taken just before we carved the special Wikipedia cake at the end of the day. Thanks to everyone who participated!