2022 Innovator: Jonathan Rothberg is CT's most prolific innovator — here's why
Jonathan Rothberg admits he wasn’t always the best student. In elementary school he spent a bit of time in the principal’s office. But when he was in seventh grade, his brother bought him a computer. “Until then I had difficulty focusing,” he remembers. “Computer programming taught me how to organize things. Everything I've done since has been around that kind of structure.”