Faculty Notes
Morgan McGuire: Delivers Banquet Keynote Talk
Posted April 10, 2013: Morgan McGuire delivered the invited banquet keynote talk at the 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games. His talk, “The Augmented Artist: Computation & Content Creation” (http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/ArtistI3D13/) described a crisis of exponentially rising costs in the entertainment industry. He gave case studies of techniques used in recent productions more »
Brian Martin: Awarded the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
Posted Feb. 4, 2013: Brian Joseph Martin, associate professor of French and comparative literature, has been awarded the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies for his book “Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France” (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2011). Recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes in the more »
Anne Skinner: Named a Senior Scientist Mentor by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Posted Nov. 15, 2012: Anne R. Skinner, Senior Lecturer emerita, has been named a Senior Scientist Mentor by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The award includes $20,000 over two years to support undergraduate research through summer stipends and other expenses. Dr. Skinner’s research applies electron spin resonance to the dating of archaeological and paleontological more »
Amanda Wilcox: New book, The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome
Posted Nov. 13, 2012: The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles, a book by Amanda Wilcox, assistant professor of classics, came out August 6, 2012 from the University of Wisconsin Press. This study offers an innovative approach to two major collections of Roman letters that have more »
Morgan McGuire: Announces New Journal, "The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques"
Posted June 28, 2012: This May, Morgan McGuire founded the open-access international Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques for scholarly articles on 3D graphics and will serve as its first editor-in-chief. His cofounders on the editorial board span academia and industry, including Google, Harvard University, Pixar, University of Tokyo, and Autodesk. This is an important step more »
Morgan McGuire: Publishes New Research Paper on "Scalable Ambient Obscurance"
Posted June 28, 2012: Associate Professor of Computer Science Morgan McGuire published a new research paper on Scalable Ambient Obscurance with Michael Mara ’12 and David Luebke of NVIDIA Research. SAO is a technique for creating realistic lighting for interactive 3D applications such as video games, medical visualization, and architectural design software. He presented the more »
