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

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.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

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

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.