User:Xd6

About Me

My name is Xavier de Gunten. I'm a freshman at Duke and I plan to double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

Name Pronunciation

I've seen my name pronounced and spelled in many different ways. In english, my name would be pronounced "Eggs-AY-v-er de GUN-ten". In spanish, it would be pronounced "Ha-V-er de GOON-ten".

Interests

My interests include drums, percussion, water skiing, wake boarding, skydiving, kitesurfing, and snow skiing.

Grand Challenge

I found this really awesome article on reverse engineering the brain of a fruit fly. The amount of memory space it takes to store all the processed images taken of the brain of a fruit fly is unimaginable and is in the petabytes(1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes). Ultimately, the idea is to be able to reverse engineer the human brain which is a daunting task but researchers and scientists are slowly making progress in this field.