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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Philip Emeagwali
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About Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He is known for making highly controversial statements about his achievements, such as inventing the Internet and creating the world's fastest computer, the Connection Machine, which are disputed by the scientific community.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Philip EmeagwaliThe hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
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 fin…
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 lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.