User:Klh49
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About Me
I am from Houston, Texas. No, I do not have a Southern accent. I played soccer but now I've gotten involved in running. I'm completely pumped to be here at Duke, and I especially can't wait for basketball season.
Name Pronunciation
Kirsti Harlan. Not Kirsten, not Kristie, not Kirsty. It rhymes with thirsty...that usually helps people remember. Phonetically: KUR-stee HAR-len.
Grand Challenges for Engineering Article
Reverse-Engineering the Brain, Fred Hapgood, Technology Review, updated 11 July 2006, accessed 22 September 2011
MIT researchers are blending the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. The project: a monkey with the ability of object recognition, immediate recognition, and cognative thinking. Thanks to this new technology, reverse-engineering the brain is one step closer.
MatLab Demonstration
My favorite demonstration is the one on 3-D graphing. I'm most interested in this topic because I have trouble visualizng objects in three dimensions. Anything that helps me with this, is interesting to me. Also it's just cool looking.
