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Philip Emeagwali
 
Date of birth: 1954
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: Nigeria
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" Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. "

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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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" Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions. "

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" Briefly, my inventions are on how to design powerful computers and computations. "

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" Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected. "

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" Computers that are commercially available are symmetric or non-handed but it is possible that some existing software and algorithms are left- or right-handed. "

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" Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. "

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" During 1967-70 period, my family was homeless. Sometimes, we slept in refugee camps, abandoned school buildings and bombed houses. "

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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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" Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected. "

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

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" Henri Poincare, considered one of the world's greatest mathematicians, had an extremely low IQ. "

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" I am a mathematician who relies heavily on qualitative problem solving techniques. "

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" I discovered enantiomeric computing by observing everyday things such as fitting an ear muff over an ear, slipping our feet into shoes, and putting our hands inside gloves. "

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

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