Jillian Leary

In this class I learned a lot about the importance of knowing how to harness new digital tools, and gained a better worldly perspective on the job market and my future after Roger Williams.  I had fun attending this class and have learned a lot of interesting facts...

When we hear the word digital, we usually think of phones, computers, or the internet. But being digital isn’t just about screens or Wi-Fi — it’s about how information is represented. By definition- something is digital when it can be broken down into a fixed set of...

Ever wonder how we got from carving into rocks to tapping on touchscreens? For most of human history, everything was analog—real, physical, and mechanical.   Around 3400 BC, people in Mesopotamia wrote on clay tablets by hand, pressing symbols into wet clay to...

The viral photo of “the dress” — the one some people saw as white and gold while others swore it was black and blue — is a great example of how digital images can change how we experience an object. The real, physical dress actually is blue and black. In person, its...

A lot of people worry that artificial intelligence will take over jobs, especially creative ones like art or design. But I don’t think AI can ever truly replace what art means. In my opinion, art is everything and everywhere—it’s how we express our thoughts, feelings,...

This project began not with scissors or strips of paper, but with a line of code—binary code to be exact. Before weaving anything, I first imagined my initials “JL” in a system of 0s and 1s, assigning pink the value of 1 and blue the value of 0. What at first looked...

Digitization is how we turn things from the real world, like text and sound, into numbers that computers can understand. For text, this might mean scanning a page, using special software to recognize the letters, and then turning those letters into codes (like...

Exploration of the Inside the Mind podcast   Think of the most advanced, complicated system you can imagine. A spaceship? A supercomputer? The internet itself? Here’s the twist: the most powerful system isn’t built by humans at all—it’s inside your head. Your...

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