“I disdain green eggs and green ham.” Easy enough to simplify this sentence down to the classic Dr. Seuss: “I do not like green eggs and ham.” The leap from complexity to simplicity is easy for the human brain. But it’s an entirely different story for a computer, which has no “first language.” To ...
Alfred Hitchcock and randomized clinical trials seem like two entirely separate topics. The former is considered to be one of the greatest directors of all time, and the latter is necessary to make sure a certain medical treatment is safe and effective. It may seem preposterous to compare the two, but ...
Kid Millions, aka John Colpitts ’95, has played with the experimental rock band Oneida for 15 years. His current solo act, Man Forever, incorporates local talent from the locations where he has performances. The Campus had the privilege of speaking with him before he began his weeklong residency ...
343 Studios has quite the boots to fill. This studio, which no one had never heard of before, was tasked with creating the long-awaited true sequel to one of the most beloved series of our time: Halo. I was skeptical. Bungie had put their hearts and souls into this amazingly fun (if a bit campy) universe, ...
This past weekend, the Vermont Collegiate Choral Consortium performed Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem at three locations around Vermont, including a Thursday night performance in Mead Chapel. The Consortium includes five choirs from Castleton State, Johnson State, Middlebury and Saint Michael’s Colleges ...
The hallway of the sixth floor of the McCardell Bicentennial Hall, home to the computer science department, is lined with posters with titles like “3D Capture of Complex Real-World Images” and “Game Development in Java.” The department proudly displays the accomplishments of past and present ...
Starting Nov. 15 and running until the 17, The Theater department will be running a production of Shakespeare’s classic comedy As You Like It, as well as hosting events with both the cast and audience members. On Nov. 13, there will be a behind-the-scenes lunch and discussion at 12:30 p.m. where ...
Department of Music Chair Peter Hamlin ’73 was honored on Tuesday, Nov. 6 with the title of “Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music.” In addition to receiving this honor, Hamlin presented an accompanying inaugural lecture that focused on his interest in electronic and computer music. Hamlin’s ...
Earlier this year this brilliant man released Break It Yourself, to which this Hands of Glory serves as a companion. Perhaps less experimental as 2010’s Useless Creatures, Hands features some of Bird’s least erratic vocals and neatest fiddling. He puts a delightful, atmospheric spin on songs by ...
Both the neuroscience and biology departments are looking to add faculty members to start in the fall of 2013. The two departments are working together to find a single candidate to fill positions in both departments. The biology department is looking for a candidate independently who will fill the ...
This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz’s latest work of fiction since his widely-acclaimed, Pulizer-Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, consists of nine beautifully interrelated, confessional short stories. They do not disappoint. Most of the stories occur at different points ...
This past weekend, Greater Tuna ran in the Hepburn Zoo from Oct. 25 - 27. The show was directed by Teddy Anderson ’13.5 and performed by Nathaniel Rothrock ’12.5 and Nicholas Hemerling ’15. This play was Rothrock’s 700-level senior work for the theater major. The highlights of the two-man show ...
Pianist Paul Lewis performs Schubert's Klavierstücke in E Flat Major, D. 946 No. 2 in a previous recording. On Friday, Oct. 26, he performed the powerful finale to his Schubert cycle. Last Friday night Paul Lewis performed to a packed concert hall in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. ...
Outside the Seeler Studio Theater on Friday night, a palpable excitement filled the air. Students, professors and community members crowded the upper lobby of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts, all grinning and whispering to each other, “that was great.” And it was. They were talking ...
Standing in front of a crowd of some 50 faculty, students and community members during lunch last Thursday, Oct. 25, Executive Director of Équiterre and Ashoka Fellow Sidney Ribaux explained how his organization, Équiterre, built the greenest building in Canada with no money, land or building experience. The ...
Something strange has happened to the stealth game genre this generation. While there have been plenty of stealth games, from entirely new franchises (Assassin’s Creed) to new installments of older series (Splinter Cell and Hitman), all these games had something in common: they weren’t really stealth ...
Of any of the isolated silos in the world of academia disciplines that seem to have little overlap — the natural and physical sciences and the social sciences seem quite disparate. One gave us “Team of Rivals” and the study of constitutional law and the other gave us the title: “Intrahippocampal ...
On Friday, Oct. 22, Wyatt Cenac, with his opening act Jermaine Fowler, came to the McCullough Social Space to bring laughter to those within, a goal they completed gloriously. Cenac is well known for his reoccurring role as a correspondent on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” as well as pat work ...
Jazz has been called America’s music, and looking at its history, one can see how interconnected it is with the country’s past. Its backbone incorporates features of ragtime, the American Negro spiritual and the blues — all forms of music developed by African Americans. It also incorporates musical ...
This coming weekend, Greater Tuna will play in the Hepburn Zoo. The two-man satirical show, directed by Teddy Anderson ’13.5, will run from Oct. 25 - 27. Greater Tuna is part of a series of four comedic plays written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Set in the fictional Texas town of ...