Nov 30 - More Williamstown

Williams College

In the morning I gave a short talk to Jim's class about Windows NT, and afterward we toured around.

A view out a Williams window in the Morley Science Lab - the construction is the work on Spring Street. There should be mountains in the distance but it was overcast.

Another view out of the Morley Science Lab - to the back of Physics and the black glass of the Schow Science Library.

A view out another window at Art. Might be a torch, might be an ice cream cone, might be something else. No one is sure.

When Williams renovated and formed the Unified Science Center they set up a number of alcoves with white (or black) boards and chairs for students to sit and work. This is one.

A view down the hallway from that alcove. It looks like a Star Trek set to me - the hallway is really a matte painting that people would be acting in front of. But no, at Williams its real.

Morley (of Michaelson and Morley - the speed of light people) was an alumnus of Williams and donated a lot of his stuff. In these cabinets, among other things, are glass bulbs and a balance he used to determine the densities of hydrogen and oxygen.

Across from the Morley exhibit was one of glassblowing. I thought the 3D snowflake was neat.

In another connection made between existing buildings (note the brick exterior of one of the buildings) they put computers and a library. Note they have to point you to where the books are.

The library. Yes, the lights point upward rather than downward. If that's not Art, it must be Architecture.

A view into Jim's windows. As new faculty his view looks like this, but from the other direction.

The whiteboard in the CS lounge in the Computer Science department after apparently a long night of students working on a project. Note the sinking class ship in the sea of CS. CS is fun.

The front door of the CS department.

Near the door is a really big bathroom - the picture doesn't begin to convey how cavernous it really is. Apparently it has been a subject of meetings at Williams for what to do with such a large space. Other than the obvious I guess.