User:Jl452

About Me

My name is Jianan Li. I am from Beijing, China. I'm currently a member of Duke's class of 2016 and a prospective ECE/CS major.

Name Pronunciation

Since there is no equivalent sound of "J" in English, you can pronounce it like chia-nan.

Personal Webpage @Duke

http://people.duke.edu/~jl452/

Grand Challenge for Engineering Article

Reverse-engineering the brain for better computers, Clive Maxfield, EE Times, updated 18 September 2007, accessed 15 August 2008 (Reverse-engineer the brain)

Favorite MATLAB Demonstration

My favorite one is the Traveling Salesman problem demonstration. I have heard about this computer science related optimization problem for a long time. It's an intriguing yet complicated problem, and seeing a graphical demo of it in MATLAB is truly exciting.

Creating a Remote Connection from a Mac

xhost +
ssh -XY NetId@ComputerName.oit.duke.edu

In my case, for example,

xhost +
ssh -XY jl452@teer17.oit.duke.edu