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
mathematical-equations algorithms pages
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.
hiv knows eighty
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
wheels smarter
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
connections machines processors
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
astronomers mathematician physicist
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
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.