For my first project in this class, we had to colorize a photography pre-1890. The picture that I choose was a picture of Gen. J.M. Corse who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. With the original black and white photography, it was hard to tell what the hair color would be on him […]
History 427: History of the Information Age
Weekly Blog Post
With our new topics that we are discussing this week about Morse Code, I am definitely excited to learn Morse Code and see how it works. I have to say that the soldier that was captured in Vietnam, the video that was part of the announcements was really cool and interesting to me because I […]
We got two things to look at
The previous class assignments that have been a part of this class that interests me at the moment would be the Live Tweeting Past Historic Events because that could modernize obviously a historic event that occurred where it could be used as a learning experience with it. Allowing us to learn a better way of […]
History of Communication and Information
With the first article that I read through, The Information by James Gleick, where he talks about a person by the name of Claude Shannon who was one of the main works for the Transistor and the bit. Early in the mid-1950s, Shannon was at the center piece when the Cybernetic Movement that burst onto […]
Introduction for the Class
Hi, my name is Hunter Dykhuis and I am a Senior this year at Mary Washington. I am a History Major and am going after a Computer Science Minor as well and I am hoping to be able to finish up school and work somewhere in D.C. like the Archives or work for the NPS. […]
Introduction for the Class
Hi, my name is Hunter Dykhuis and I am a Senior this year at Mary Washington. I am a History Major and am going after a Computer Science Minor as well and I am hoping to be able to finish up school and work somewhere in D.C. like the Archives or work for the NPS. […]