Computer Science
The human brain is an organ of vast, remarkable, and mind-boggling complexity. The elaborate information-processing control system we refer to as the brain is the network that makes you mentally who you are. Your thoughts, decisions, motions, personality, and emotions are all tied to this one organ, without which you are nothing and with which you can be any number of possibilities. In this same vein, the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer is very similar to a human brain in that it controls and monitors everything that the computer does and is capable of doing. It is the main (hence ‘central’) entity that organizes, computes, and processes information as it comes in. Information is then remembered momentarily by the random-access-memory (RAM), and then perhaps stored for permanent keeping on the hard drive of the machine. All of these separate components are joined together through the motherboard, which allows everything to work in harmony. In this way, the different components making up the human brain and the different components making up a computer are very similar in regard to basic function. The science behind the different processes and functions that allow a computer to carry out certain tasks is very important in the world today.
In order to gain a complete understanding of this field, a rundown of what it is exactly and how it operates is necessary. To begin, a basic perception of the origination of the computer science field is required. Early computation in general began as early as the 24th century BCE, with tools such as the abacus; however, devices like the abacus only carried the general concept of computation that would soon be interlocked with the concept of modern computers today. Alongside this, the processes involved in molding and creating these computation machines evolved gradually over time, gaining complexity as they went. If one was to pursue a degree in this field of study, a basic to advanced...