User:Jjh38
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About Me
My name is James Hong, I am a ECE major and I am a foreign student from Brazil.
Name Pronunciation
"James" should be straightforward. "Hong"... I guess it kinda is too. Just pronounce it as if it were a English word. The stress is on the "o". Maybe a phonetic comparison with "James Bond" will help...
Grand Challenges for Engineering page
- Reinventing the Leaf: Artificial Photosynthesis to Create Clean Fuel, Antonio Regalado, Scientific American, updated September 23, accessed September 23 (solar energy)
Favourite MATLAB demo
The "Game of Life" demo is my favourite. I like how that very basic approach to a computational problem (i.e life simulation) ended up having way more complex consequences and gave rise to advanced studies about the game's behavior. Strangely enough, I find it somewhat similar to the Mandelbrot fractal, a highly complex figure generated from a very simple equation. Also, I find it very interesting that the "glider" ended up being adopted as a hacker culture symbol and that the game itself is a simulation of a Turing complete machine.
