The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
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 Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.