Birth: August 23, 1954
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger..
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future..
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lect….
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 differ….
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..
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong..
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 com….
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used..
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in natur….
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer..
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels..
The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions..
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems..
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..
Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature..
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describ….
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to progr….
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine..
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me..