Window on Williams: Student Speeches from LEAD250: Political Leadership 2014
Students from Governor Jane Swift's LEAD250 class at Williams College speak about topics that concern them.
Producer: Jim Kolesar / Williams College Office of Public Affairs and Media Services
Window on Williams: Amy Holzapfel: Acts of Seeing: Art, Vision & Realist Theatre
Amy Holzapfel, associate professor of theater, presents 'Acts of Seeing: Art, Vision & Realist Theatre' as part of the Williams College 2014 Faculty Lecture Series. Holzapfel spoke about her new book, 'Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing' (2013), which explores the impact of modern theories of vision on the rise of realism in nineteenth-century theater.
Window on Williams: Jeannie Albrecht: Detecting and Predicting Occupancy in a Smart Home
The first talk in 2014's Faculty Lecture Series at Williams. Associate Professor of Computer Science will be presented by Jeannie Albrecht summarizes a project called Smart, which aims to optimize energy consumption in homes. Albrecht and her research team designed and installed a system that continuously gathers environmental and operational data in three homes, including Albrecht's. The data collected includes many important aspects of the home environment, such as average household electricity usage per second; usage at every circuit and plug load; electricity generation data from on-site solar panels and wind turbines; outdoor weather data; temperature and humidity data from indoor rooms; and data for wall switches, doors, and motion sensors.
Window on Williams: Amy Levine TEDx
Over the course of an afternoon, six Williams faculty members and two students presented short talks on such wide-ranging topics as galaxy collisions, the philosophy of the mind, and pop Orientalism.
Window on Williams: Joe Cruz TEDx
Over the course of an afternoon, six Williams faculty members and two students presented short talks on such wide-ranging topics as galaxy collisions, the philosophy of the mind, and pop Orientalism.
