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
american-musician attempt computer entirely guinea human labs left million program
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.
american-musician understanding
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.
american-musician computers depends lives performing
Our lives sometimes depends on computers performing as predicted.
american-musician deny details inventors office patent patents provided publicly reason trademark
The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.
adversity people stronger
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
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.
college eight years
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
hiv knows eighty
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
strong hardship made
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
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.
wheels smarter
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
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.
connections machines processors
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.