English @ SUNY Geneseo | Zachary Veith | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/zacharyveith/activity/ Activity feed for Zachary Veith. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7ee20295826c244c88f13ff89761f729 Zachary Veith's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9356/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:18:31 -0500 0 a580d432619964fb8b49450f7659d931 Zachary Veith wrote a new blog post A Tour of the Historic Wadsworth Homestead in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9322/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:35:36 -0500 Historical Homestead is an examination of the Wadsworth Homestead and its connection to larger historical contexts through the use of virtual reality technology.

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]]> 0 591f0f939af3406476e40a5b278eb291 Zachary Veith wrote a new blog post Historical Homestead in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8960/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:13:10 -0500 As the homepage of my Omeka site states, the overall goal of Historical Homestead is to utilize “virtual representations of the objects and rooms of the Wadsworth Homestead” to ” illustrate a larger con […]

]]> 0 0b91064747a0da523dfbd747b51b4dd6 Zachary Veith edited the blog post A Vision of Britain through Time in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8707/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:55:49 -0500

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A Vision of Britain through Time, a digital project based at the University of Portsmouth, aims to illustrate social and geographic changes in Britain’s counties over time by utilizing records and maps. To quote their official mission statement, the project “brings together historical surveys of Britain to create a record of how…[Read more]

]]> 0 5789f1ef51537ce52bd3132dbc0dc214 Zachary Veith replied to the topic Vannevar Bush's Memex in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/vannevar-bushs-memex/#post-1087 Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:15:32 -0500
  • These challenges that Bush describes are twofold; access to information and retrieving that information in a streamlined manner. Access to information is the most obvious challenge. Instead of scouring for new research (taking longer to find it than it would take to read it), the current thought on any subject could be right at one’s f…

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    ]]>         a014af3942c1740d96a7a4f35e6b1649 Zachary Veith replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/gleick-on-information/#post-1074 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:48:35 -0500
  • Unlike, say, a typewriter, I never really thought of a computer as a physical, mechanical machine. For me, they were always just this box that contained a virtual realm outside the physical world. But reading Gleick’s descriptions of Turing’s and Shannon‘s early “computers,” built to perform mechanical tasks, changed that. I can view computers…

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    ]]>         c25d1efedc9ff0aa32da783d4e31f665 Zachary Veith replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/gleick-on-words/#post-1063 Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:59:20 -0500
  • Cawdrey’s book, and the long history leading up to the modern OED, really interested me. What I found most surprising was the egalitarian nature of Table Alpabeticall. In such a class orientated society as early-modern Britain, this book was written for women and unskilled workers just as much as aristocratic gentlemen. This sort of u…

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