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Philip Emeagwali

Super Computing

• Supercomputers that put people on the moon are unheard of in Africa. But not to this Nigerian lad who dropped out of school at age 14.
• Philip Emeagwali worked on The Connection Machine which utilizes 65,000 computers linked to form the fastest computer on Earth.
• He also designed the Hyperball computer which forecasts long-term global warming patterns.
• He won the Gordon Bell Prize of 1989.

• Learn about more African American inventors here.