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First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

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I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

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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 lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

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I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

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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.

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The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

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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.

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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 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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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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