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
Philip Emeagwali quotes about
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.
connections machines processors
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
astronomers mathematician physicist
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
study interest subjects
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
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.
vaccines challenges hiv
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.
computer sometimes performing
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
focus important mystery
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
pigs brave use
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.
opportunity discovery important
The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.
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.
stronger prison nelson
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
different analogies fields
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
american-musician identify nature
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.