Original sentence: He arrived in the Albany area at 16 or so—about the time his mother died—to attend the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute..
Edited sentence: By 13, he was competent in third-year university level math and had become a computer programming professional.Contemporary local news accounts say he earned a triple-major in math, physics and biology, with minors in psychology and philosophy—an academic feat that briefly made him a local celebrity (the accounts gushed that he slept just two hours a night, rarely attended class and could spell "homogenized" as a toddler after seeing it on a milk carton).He arrived in the Albany area at 16 or so—about the time his mother died—to attend the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.His father, James, has said he exhibited early athletic gifts, tying the New York high school record for the 100-yard dash and becoming East Coast judo champion at 12.Home movies show a young boy in martial-arts garb dominating his opponents with quiet, unfussy aggression.In 1988, a test developed by New York philosopher Ron Hoeflin and printed in Omni magazine placed his IQ at between 188 and 194 (Hoeflin confirms the result).The score is said to have landed him in the 1989 Guinness Book of World Records in the category of "Highest IQ"