I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.