B1 Database and Network in Future Construction Work

Before the reading of the materials, the database and network in my mind are the support tool and the foundation to develop the future automation work for not only construction work but also every industry. Database will be a storage dictionary to help the system designer analysis the information about the system. Network will be a layer to help the system to transfer the information.

My first reading about the database is Cringey's thinking about the big data. In his article, he believes that the big data transform the world. Also, he brief describes the database development history. Thousands year before, because people wanted to record their religion data, they tried to writing and drawing. Once people had knowledge and writing, it was in our nature to seek ways to hide these data from others. This led to codes and cyphers and to statistical techniques for breaking them. A 9th centuries Abu Yusuf al-Kindi, wrote A Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages, marking the beginning of statistics — the finding of meaning in data — and of cryptanalysis or code-breaking.In 19th century, instead of only storage data, IBM created the way to process the data to help people improve their system. Later, Oracle created the relational model to use the database in the productive system.[1] From the database development history, I find that people developed the database because they really need it. For the future construction work, I believe that the database will be very helpful. In my coop experience, when we did the building energy simulation, we always need lots of data to do the analysis, like the weather historical data, soil data and the materials data. The database is helping the construction work, it will be more useful in the future.   

Also, I think the database is the foundation of the robot and AI. In March 2016, the Alphago won 4-1 against the Lee Sedol, the top Go player in the world over the past decade. [2] Alphago almost won all the top players in the world. One of the main reason is that Alphago has a strong database with abundant of historical go game information to help them analysis and win. 

Network is a transmission tool. I read an article is about TCP/LP. TCP is a basic communication language of the internet. IP is responsible for defining exactly where data needs to be sent and ensuring that packets of data are sent and received to the same place. The network is the tool to transfer the information and to bring the programmer's design to all the world. [3]

The social in my mind in the future is one sentence. The world is not mine, the world is yours, but the programmer will own the world. 

Resource

1. http://www.cringely.com/2016/07/05/thinking-big-data-part-one/

2. https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/

3. https://www.pcmech.com/article/what-is-tcpip-and-how-does-it-work/