Computational Journalism 4803 CJ / 8803 CJ

MSN Newsware

Nick — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:21:54 +0000

MSN recently launched a set of interactive applications meant to enhance the news experience: Newsware.

Blog brings human face to big-city murder - CNN.com

Irfan Essa — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:17:49 +0000

Blog brings human face to big-city murder - CNN.com

Summer R&D Opportunity

Nick — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:29:18 +0000

We have an opening for a paid Research Assistant (RA) to work on topics related to Computational Journalism over the Summer (starting May 12th). This will primarily involve development, testing, and user evaluation of an online interface for analyzing video. Other aspects of development include game design and evaluation and elements of web information extraction and analysis such as sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and semantic web (Web 3.0). Exceptional work may lead to academic publication.

Interested students should have experience with the following:

Flash 9 (AS3) programming
PHP programming
MySQL databases

Ideally, students would also have some experience with usability testing and evaluation although this is not mandatory.

Interested students (graduate or undergraduate) should contact Nick (nad@cc.gatech.edu) with your resume and interest in the position.

Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008

Irfan Essa — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:25:39 +0000

Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times

Irfan Essa — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:59:03 +0000

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times

Pew Research Center: The News You Choose

Irfan Essa — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:00:20 +0000

Pew Research Center: The News You Choose

The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com

Irfan Essa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:29:17 +0000

The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com

Images in NEWS

Irfan Essa — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:20:58 +0000

GUEST SPEAKER: Ramesh Raskar (MIT & MERL)

Irfan Essa — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:53:53 +0000

“Less is More: Coded Computational Photography”

Speaker: Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time: 2p - 3p
LOCATION: TBD (Somewhere in TSRB or in CoCB 102)
Relevant URL: http://raskar.info

Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at
the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision,
electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field is
evolving through three phases. The first phase was about building a
super-camera that has enhanced performance in terms of the traditional
parameters, such as dynamic range, field of view or depth of field. I call
this Epsilon Photography. Due to limited capabilities of a camera, the scene
is sampled via multiple photos, each captured by epsilon variation of the
camera parameters. It corresponds to the low-level vision: estimating pixels
and pixel features. The second phase is building tools that go beyond
capabilities of this super-camera. I call this Coded Photography. The goal
here is to reversibly encode information about the scene in a single
photograph (or a very few photographs) so that the corresponding decoding
allows powerful decomposition of the image into light fields, motion
deblurred images, global/direct illumination components or distinction
between geometric versus material discontinuities. This corresponds to the
mid-level vision: segmentation, organization, inferring shapes, materials
and edges. The third phase will be about going beyond the radiometric
quantities and challenging the notion that a camera should mimic a
single-chambered human eye. Instead of recovering physical parameters, the
goal will be to capture the visual essence of the scene and analyze the
perceptually critical components. I call this Essence Photography and it may
loosely resemble depiction of the world after high level vision processing.
It will spawn new forms of visual artistic expression and communication.

Bio
Ramesh Raskar will join the Media Lab, MIT in Spring 2008 as head of the
Camera Culture research group. Dr. Raskar received the TR100 Award,
Technology Review’s 100 Top Young Innovators Under 35 worldwide, 2004 and
Global Indus Technovator Award 2003, instituted at MIT to recognize the top
20 Indian technology innovators on the globe. He holds 30 US patents and has
received Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards in 2003, 2004 and 2006. He is
currently co-authoring a book on computational photography (with Jack
Tumblin).

Broadcast News Workshop at Grady (UGA)

Nick — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:35:26 +0000

Some may be interested to learn more about broadcast news at this CNN sponsored event at the Grady College of Journalism this Saturday. Check out the flyer or the website for more details