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Grand Engineering Challenges

Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: A Progress Update , Matthew Bunn , Harvard University , October 22, 2003 , September 22, 2003 (Prevent nuclear terror)

Name and Pronunciation

Noel Vera-Gonzalez = no-ELL VEER-ruh gon-SAH-les

MATLAB Demo

The MATLAB demo that drew my attention the most was the one titled Earth's Topography. The program works by loading data containing the topography of Earth and data containing the colormap for the different altitudes. Then the command 'contour' creates a contour plot of the Earth's surface which delineates the continents' borders. The command 'image' creates a 2D image from the data loaded earlier. Finally the 'sphere' function converts the previous graph into a 3D topographic model of Earth. It is amazing all the diverse functions and commands MATLAB has to simplify the creation of such a complex graph. This was what captivated me most from this demo, the easiness with which you can analyze large amounts of data and present them graphically.