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Philip Emeagwali Biography

Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He has been living in the United States for many years. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize ($1,000) for price-performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation..

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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.

Assignments, Classroom, College, Eight, Lectures, Years

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.

Connection, Connections, Forever, Powerful, Supercomputer, Take

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Analogies, Different, Fields, Helps, Occurring

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Interest, Preferred, Study, Subjects

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

Age, Four, High School, School, Times

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

Camp, Hardship, Made, Strong

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.

Brave, Computer, Human, Labs, Pigs, Use

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Adversities, Adversity, Homeless, People, Stronger

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

Discoveries, Discovery, Important, Inventions, Make, Opportunity

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.

Aids, Challenges, Greatest, Hiv, Vaccines

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.

Contribution, Different, Formally, Hiv, Ideas

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Computer, Computers, Lives, Performing, Predicted, Sometimes

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Encountered, Hard Work, Help, Past, Succeed, Success

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

Algorithms, Equations, Mathematical Equations, Technique, Techniques, Used

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

Connection, Connections, Machine, Machines, Processors

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

Mystery, Problem, Problems, Solved, Trying, Unravel

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Americans, Hiv, Infected, Know, Knows, Percent

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.

Connections, Government, Laboratories, Owned, Time, United States

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

100, Endowed, Natural, People, West