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Courtney Trutna

Year: Pratt '17

Interested in Studying: Biomedical Engineering

Interests: Ultimate Frisbee, Theater Tech

Grand Challenges for Engineering

The article below is about a virtual "version" of a brain-- possibly bringing us one step closer to being able to fully understand the real thing.

Bringing a Virtual Brain to Life, Tim Requarth, NY Times, 3/18/13, Accessed 9/5/13 (Reverse Engineer the Brain)

MATLAB Demo

My favorite MATLAB demo was the "Traveling Salesmen" problem demo. I didn't immediately associate the problem with the title, so when I opened the GUI, the instant recognition of the posed challenge was entertaining. This demo was a proof to me of potential applications for MATLAB programming I hadn't previously considered-- beyond graphing and calculations that could be done inside another interface, but something where having a script-like control over the computer is useful. It was fun to see how the first random guess is so poor, lacking the intuition a person solving this problem would have, and get a glimpse into the time taken to run the calculations when obvious (graphically) pathways switches took so long to reach computationally. Opening the code, it was interesting to