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Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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Our lives sometimes depends on computers performing as predicted.
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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
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Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
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I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
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One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
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I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
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First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
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The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
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I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
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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.
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Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
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The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
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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 guinea pig.
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The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
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