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The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali
Motivational
,
Future
,
Past
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali
Human
,
Nation
,
Natural
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Philip Emeagwali
Made
,
Stronger
,
Prison
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
Philip Emeagwali
Computers
,
Humans
,
Versions
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
Philip Emeagwali
Hiv
,
Percent
,
Eighty
Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
Philip Emeagwali
Program
,
Absolute
,
Briefly
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
Philip Emeagwali
Computers
,
Sometimes
,
Lives
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.
Philip Emeagwali
Greatest
,
Challenge
,
Hiv
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.
Philip Emeagwali
Medical
,
Different
,
Research
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
Philip Emeagwali
School
,
After
,
Financial
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 computer for the first time in my life.
Philip Emeagwali
Life
,
Time
,
Used
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
,
Problem
,
Analogous
I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
Philip Emeagwali
School
,
Between
,
Times
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
,
Different
,
Understand
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
Philip Emeagwali
Study
,
Interest
,
Preferred
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
Philip Emeagwali
Become
,
Wanted
,
Astronomer
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
,
Reinvent
,
Smarter
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Philip Emeagwali
Nature
,
Focus
,
Important
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Philip Emeagwali
Stronger
,
Prison
,
Malcolm
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
Philip Emeagwali
Men
,
Positive
,
American
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
Philip Emeagwali
Inside
,
Machine
,
Connection
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.
Philip Emeagwali
Powerful
,
Forever
,
Works
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.
Philip Emeagwali
Time
,
Great
,
Government
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
Philip Emeagwali
Strong
,
Made
,
Living
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.
Philip Emeagwali
Happy
,
Human
,
Enough
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Nationality:
Nigerian
Type:
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Born: 1954
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