Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian inventor and scientist. He has been living in the United States for many years. An Igbo from the commercial city of Onitsha in Anambra State. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prizefor price-performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionScientist
CountryNigeria
study interest subjects
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
connections machines processors
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
airports library saws
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.
powerful forever machines
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.
astronomers mathematician physicist
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
government machines demand
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.
ideas research medical-science
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.
hiv knows eighty
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
trying mystery problem
Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.
strong hardship made
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
people west natural
Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
believe people computer
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
school years eight
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
school high-school age
I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.