History of computer science: penetrating into personal life

Computer, when it is first developed more than 60 years before, is a giant monster which takes over the big area with several rooms of diodes and connecting wires. Today, computers can be found in every home and anywhere, even in your wrist watch or glasses. The fast progresses of computer hardware provide computer science good opportunities to penetrate into personal life in everywhere.

 

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In the earlier stage of computer science, the emphasis is on the automation of industry manufacturing and big engineering projects. You might know that the first computer is designed to aid calculating the rocket track to be more accurate. The quickly increasing demands on more precise instruments and more efficient product lines contribute to the big power of the development of computer science. Computer scientists around the world have developed countless of computational solutions to develop smart Robot to perform complex manufacturing actions in Automobile assembly line, and developed the extensible network model to populate information around the world with internet. Although these progresses in computer science haven’t directly interactive with humans’ daily life, it did profound impacts to our approaches for changing the world. With more and more automation adopted in various industries, people’s ability to create is largely improved.

With the popularization of personal computers, computing resources are easily obtained by each person. How to aid people to better handle important affairs in their daily life and work is the new motivation to computer science. The invention of Office Kits like Microsoft Office software largely improved people’s productivities in editing and publications. It also let the paperless office to be possible and save lots of natural resources. The same time, computer science has large progress in graphical computations and brought us vivid 3-dimensional animations which are hard to tell which is real or not. With innovative research in human-computer interface, computing resources are becoming much easier to normal people who don’t have professional knowledge in computer science.  Cloud computing and mobile computing are two recent big breakthroughs in computer science, which help to equip small mobile devices with the powerful computing ability to aid people’s daily life by the most convenient way. 

Computer science is still a flourishing field with lots of potentials to be identified. As a student in statistics, I also wish to take the benefit of the big achievements in computer science and combine statistical analysis methods with powerful computing algorithms to explore valuable unknowns beneath the big data.