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could well be Philip Emeagwali's middle name. A high school drop-out and former war refugee, this
US based Nigerian is today the wonder boy of supercomputing. He has been called the "Bill Gates of Africa."
His earlier schoolmates at Christ the King College, Onitsha, remember him as "Calculus." Emeagwali holds
several records: the world's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second; world record for solving
the largest partial differential equations with 8 million grid points; world record for solving the largest weather
forecasting equations with 128 million grid points; world record for an unprecedented parallel computer
speedup; discovered the counter-intuitive hypercube paradox; formulated the theory of tessellated models for
parallel computing; discovered chirality, duality, helicity, etc. The remaining achievements run into eight more
pages. Emeagwali has been honored with all the top awards in his field, but he says the world hasn't seen
anything yet. Over a period of seven months, The Guardian's Reuben Abati, currently in the United States,
interviewed Emeagwali, one topic at a time, on a variety of issues.
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Nigerian Childhood
Emigrating to US
Education
Influences on Work
African Mathematics
Africa ONE
Hobbies
Motivation
Crazy Scientists
Nature Influence
Discoveries
Borrowing from Nature
Telepresence
Computers in Africa
Fastest Computer
Intuition & Invention
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Blue
Famine & War
Telepresence
Racism in Science
Nigerians in America
Brain Drain
Information Revolution
Cyber Wars
Animism & Mysticism
Internet Phone
Nigerians
Public Service
Nigerian Problem
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