1!

$15,000 + Magic Grant finalist placeMagic Grants up to $300,000

2!

Helen Gurley Brown and David Brown

"David and I have long supported and encouraged bright young people to follow their passions and to create original content. Great content needs useable technology. Sharing a language is where the magic happens. It's time for two great American institutions on the East and West coasts to build a bridge."!

Magic Grants

Art++

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Ensemble Collaborative Writing with the Crowd

•  Idea: collaborative story writing platform that combines leader-provided constraints and the generative power of the crowd

•  Team: Stanford PhD students, supervised by Prof. Michael Bernstein (Computer Science)

Digital voting system for Participatory Budgeting

8!

Dispatch: A Mobile Publishing Protocol for Conflict Reporting

•  Idea: wireless adhoc real-time platform for (citizen) journalists to exchange information and publish securely and anonymously

•  Team: CS PhD students at Stanford and Columbia, supervised by Professors Monica Lam and Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia Journalism students supervised by Professor Susan McGregor

1 Personalized Television News

Personalized Television News A Project Supported by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation

DVMM Lab Columbia University

IVMS Group Stanford University

Eigen News

EigenNews: Personalized TV News

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Providing)storytelling)pla1orm)to)a)vibrant)

sub5culture)

Access)point)to)ques9ons)of:)iden9ty)poli9cs)+)online)

alterity)+)iden9ty)cura9on))+)online/offline)public)space)

“Queen”)Page) “Boy”)Page)

Technology at the Margins Tools for Online Identity Construction

Magic Grants• $150k-300k (one-coast/bi-coastal)!

• $500k for second year (Flagship project)!

• Students in all levels: undergrad, Master’s, PhD, postdoc!

• Deadline in Feb-March 2015!

• Good if a prototype exists!

• The best applicants will present in an application review meeting to review committee

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Guiding Principles •  Relevance: seek broad impact on media

production, delivery, presentation, and consumption •  Openness: let the best ideas compete •  Intellectual merit: to thrive in a university setting •  Project focus: the best way to collaborate in multi-

disciplinary bicoastal teams •  Entrepreneurship: help viable ideas grow beyond

the Institute

$15,000 + Magic Grant finalist place

Magic Grants up to $300,000

Jan 16th-18th, 2015. Deadline Nov 20th

Questions? !

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@tanjaaita!www.tanjaaitamurto.com!

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brown.stanford.edu!!!!!!!

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