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About Me
Pursuing a BSc. Eng. in biomedical engineering and minors in mathematics and chemistry at Duke University. Academic interests include electrophysiology, tissue engineering, programming, and real analysis. Other interests include tennis and golf, although success in competition has yet to catch up to player's ambition.
Name Phonetic
Cole Arora = "Coal" "Ah-Roar-Ah"
Note: the pronunciation of my last name is equivalent to that of Aurora in Aurora Borealis.
"Grand Challenges" article (Homework 1)
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/grand-plans-for-engineers/
This article, printed in the New York Times, discusses the Grand Challenges, with a slight focus on the exponential growth that the field of medicine will experience as it delves more into information technology.
A second article I found elaborates on these medical aspects - specifically, the Grand Challenge of "reverse-engineering" the brain (posted below). The article discusses how neuroscience and artificial intelligence are beginning to mix, and goes into detail on some current projects at MIT.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17111
Matlab Demo Discussion (Homework 2)
The demo I found to be most interesting was the one titled "Inverses of Matrices" under the "Graphics" category. While not the most visually captivating of the demos, it highlighted how matrices can actually be visualized - something I had never thought of before. Seeing in color the differences between a matrix and its inverse, and then being able to see (pictorially) how the multiplication of the two can produce the graph of the identity matrix really served to strengthen my understanding of the concept. Additionally, the "2-D Plots" demo came in second for me, since it went through the exact steps necessary to produce a variety of different graph formats. The "2-D Plots" demo was such a nice repository of information that I will probably go back and refer to it when I do the 4th lab.
