User:Daf26

Daf26's name's Pronunciation

Daf26's name is Diego Alfredo Farias Canepa, according to his birth certificate. However, his maternal last name, Canepa, (See [Spanish Naming Customs]) is seldom used. Same with his middle name, Alfredo. As for the two words that are actually used off of his name, Diego is pronounced "Dee-EH-goh" and Farias is pronounced "fah-REE-ahs."

The History of Daf26

Daf26 is a student at Duke University for the class of 2016. He is enrolled in the Pratt School of Engineering and is currently leaning towards Biomedical Engineering as a major. He graduated from Wando High School in South Carolina in 2012. His whereabouts before 2007, the year when he was first seen on American soil, are largely unknown. However, there is plenty of evidence to back the claim that he was living in Argentina from 2005 to 2007, and that he was born in Chile in 1993, where he lived until his exodus to Argentina. Both of these facts, however, are under dispute by historians and biographers.

The beginning of his Duke career: homework for EGR103

Diego was given the assignment to find an article related to the "grand challenges of Engineering" and post it to his Pundit page during his first week of classes. After much searching, Diego finally found an article that fit the prompt perfectly. He found an article titled "Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain likely by 2030, Expert Predicts" on Wired Magazine. He immediately posted this article. The link can be found below.

[http ://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/reverse-engineering-brain-kurzweil/, "Reverse-Engineering of Human Brain Likely by 2030, Expert Predicts" ] , Priya Ganapati , Wired.com , August 14th 2010 , September 4th 2012(Reverse Engineering the Brain)