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 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.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

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

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.