User:Az42
Welcome to my Homepage!
Hey there! My name's Ananya (Uh-naan-yah) Zutshi (Zoot-she) and I'm a freshman in Pratt, woooo!
Here are some of my interests:
- Good movies
- Good food
- Funny people
- Quotes
- Volleyball
- Soccer
- Chocolate
- Long walks on the beach
- Actually... I'm a bigger fan of the mountains, but I thought I'd throw that in there for a laugh. Haha?
Basically, if you give me chocolate and make me laugh, we can be best friends.
MATLAB Demos
My favorite of the MATLAB demos was the Traveling Salesman demo, in which the demo animates the solution of the "Traveling Salesman" problem of how to form a closed circuit with a given number of cities while traveling the shortest total distance along the way. It was my favorite because it actually seems pretty practical, even though the cities were chosen at random. It's interesting to press "Start" and watch MATLAB figure out the shortest total route, and it's just a small reminder of how powerful technology can be and how it makes our lives so much easier. The demos were pretty cool in general, though!
Grand Challenges
So for my EGR 103 class, I have a homework assignment about the Grand Challenges for Engineering. Since I'm planning on doing Biomedical Engineering (and being pre-med), I was drawn to the challenge of engineering better medicines! The article I found discussed how the future of biomedicine lies in getting computers to mimic brain chemisty, internal organs, and the interactions of drugs and viruses. This could change the way we test potential medication and could lead to a new era of personalized medicine. But we still have a long way to go before this dream becomes a reality, including figuring out problems like how the human body has billions of neurons, minicking the environment, and more.
To go this article by Bryn Nelson, refer to the external links section.
External Links
The future of biomedicine: virtual humans, Bryn Nelson, MSNBC, updated March 17 2008, accessed 22 September 2011 (Grand Challenges)
