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I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in... →
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... →
Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to... →
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... →
During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a... →