How does computer network related to biology?

Computer networks have become an integral part of many people’s lives. The most widely used of all networks, the internet, connects millions of people cross countries. More importantly, it has fulfilled H.G. Wells’ dream: to create a system making human knowledge available to all. One important thing is that internet is not owned by any one person or corporation. Internet survives only because everyone participates in this network. All the computers are linked to the internet and people are contributing news, pictures, and videos to the internet everyday. When the internet contains more information, more people would continue to use it. This trend would continue and more and more people would end up using the internet.

In biology, the natural system works in a similar way. An environment is suitable for a group of animals to live in. Therefore, that group and any other animals would congregate to this area. These animals by themselves are the contribution to the environment. The forest or desert is now filled with a large number of animals. Each predator in this environment has prey to eat just like every user on the internet has knowledge to gain. The predators contribute to the environment by being there, diversifying the environment. With an open system like internet or forest, there would be those people who would abuse it. The virus writer and spammers would create problems on the internet. The human who abusively cut down all the trees without giving back the nutrients are similar to the virus writers and spammers. All of them create problems and make the environment a terrible place.

Another major similarity is the self organization of both the natural environment and internet. As the environment becomes too packed, the animals die naturally or they leave the area physically. As the population becomes too low, the available resources increases naturally and population returns to normal. These self regulating activities prevent the whole population from dying. The internet works similarly. As the number of virus writers increases, there would be more demand for protection software or firewall. With this demand for jobs, people would filled up these jobs and therefore fight the virus writers. The internet would become a safer place again.

How does network related to art?

The network and art have close connection. Network in any aspect is connections or relationships among many entities. If these entities were represented by an object and the connections be represented by a line, then the resulting graph would generate a picture of web. By using software to generate such behaviors or any continuous behaviors, there would be an art. For example, a software program that we saw in class on Monday shows many bubbles and lines among them. Each of the bubbles represents a website that people have visited and the line represents the connection of the websites. After the program has been executing for minutes or seconds, the resulting picture is a tree-like web. This picture can continue to grow as more websites are visited. Like any paintings in the world, this active picture is an art.