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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.
 

 
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