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
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The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
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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.
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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.
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Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
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The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
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The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.
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First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
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Our lives sometimes depends on computers performing as predicted.
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The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
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I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
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The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.
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It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
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The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.
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Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.