Alumni

Stanford Engineering Puzzle

May 2008
Stanford Engineering Puzzle

This is it as far as the wonderful run we've had with Scott Kim's flash puzzles. Thanks again, Scott.

We are committed to keeping the puzzle feature going, but we are very open to your suggestions (dare I say submissions?). Send us your puzzlers, brainteasers, conundrums and riddles to David Orenstein. We'll share the best of them with your fellow alumni to enjoy (with proper credit, of course).

As with last month , this antenna-based puzzle is dedicated to all the hard working students, faculty and staff who work on wireless communications. These include folks such as electrical engineering Professors Donald Cox, Andrea Goldsmith, Arogyaswami Paulraj, and Balaji Prabhakar. Check out their research by clicking on their names.

Directions for puzzle
In this puzzle, your job is to infer the location of three wireless transmitters on the campus by placing detectors on the map. This is somewhat like sniffing for wi-fi networks, or testing for cell phone signal strength (can you hear me now?). For fun we will post (below) the names of alumni who successfully e-mail the secret word to staff member Marge Kastner. She'll post the first 10 correct responders and every tenth right answerer after that.

You must have Flash installed to run this puzzle, which was designed by Scott Kim and programmed by Larry Doyle of Cyberiandesign.


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Reproduction only with permission of the Office Maps and Records. All Rights Reserved.

All entries, listed here or not, will be entered in the "Alumni Permanent Record" and count towards Honorary Degrees in Puzzology next June. To check out the degree earners for June 2007 please see the Puzzology page. Every 10th solver will be listed until the last weekend of the month, when the final entries will be awarded the "Weekend of Fame" before the next puzzle page is posted. So keep your solutions coming in.

"Winning" entries

    1)   Michael Tung
    2)   Wah Kwok
    3) Viren Bhanot
    4)   Mark Gundersen
    5)   Rock Doherty
    6)   Mark Kahn
    7)   Philip James
    8)   Archanna Srivivasan
    9)   Michael Connors
  10)   Jasna Ristic Djurovic
  20)   John Paff
  30)   Jupe Hale
  40)   Nicholas Reeck
  50)   Arturo Garcia Jr.
  60)   Terry Rassieur
  70)   Michael Burgart
  80)   Wolfgang Polak
  90)   Timothy Phillips
 100)   Michael Bax
 110)   Kai Yu
 120)   Anthony Vitale
 130)   Carol Paymer
 140)   Carl Farrell
 150)   Patrick Sullivan
 160)   Misty Davies
 170)   Kristin Granlund
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Do you want to try your hand at past puzzles? Go to our Archive page.