ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB.
In 1988, the news that Emeagwali had performed the world's fastest computation
had spread over the Internet. Although some people were skeptical, participants at
this institute discussed his work and
believed his results and even predicted that he should
win the Gordon Bell Prize.
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TOP COMPUTING PRIZE
The predictions came true and Emeagwali won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize.
Dale and Philip at the award ceremony and banquet. February 28, 1990 at San Francisco,
California.
"Philip Emeagwali, who took on an enormously difficult
problem and, like most students working on Ph.D. dissertations,
solved it alone, has won computation's top prize, captured in the
past only by seasoned research teams." Reported by Judith Axler Turner for the June 27,
1990 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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TOP SUPERCOMPUTER AWARD
"U-M grad student Philip Emeagwali has won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize
Competition, which is considered the annual high point of supercomputer
research. With his petroleum reservoir
simulation, Emeagwali became the first sole investigator to win the prize."
From the
Computing News, (a University of Michigan publication) April 16, 1990
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GORDON BELL PRIZE
"Philip Emeagwali wins 1989 Gordon Bell Supercomputing Prize." By Lisa Mooney for
Michigan Engineer, (a University of Michigan publication) Spring 1990
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COMPUTING OFFICE
"Quietly working in a U-M lab, grad student Philip
Emeagwali has pulled off a prize-winning feat in
supercomputing." Steve Eisenberg reports for the
April 26, 1990 issue of the Ann Arbor News (Michigan, USA).
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COMPUTER LAB
"Philip Emeagwali, a doctoral student
in the U-M College of Engineering, was awarded the 1989 Gordon
Bell Prize for supercomputing research."
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DETROIT FREE PRESS
"When Philip Emeagwali was a child in Nigeria, his classmates
thought he was a genius. Today, much of the academic and computer
science community would agree.
In February, he won the prestigious 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for programming
supercomputers to work faster than ever before and for helping to solve one of
the nation's toughest oil recovery problems. Even more impressive, in a field
in which most breakthroughs are a collaborative effort, the 35-year-old University
of Michigan doctoral candidate did it on his own."
Sharon Walker Rose reports for the May 29,
1990 issue of the Detroit Free Press.
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THE CHICKEN AND OX
"There's a supercomputing race between --- The Chickens and the Ox.
The cart pulled by the ox represents a conventional supercomputer.
Intuition might lead one to think that the bull can
outperform the cart pulled by a multitude of well-trained,
harnessed chickens. But the coordination of many smaller units
results in better performance. Similarly, a massively parallel
computer is faster
and more powerful than a conventional supercomputer."
The U-M invited Philip Emeagwali to share the highlights of his doctoral dissertation
in three essays that were mailed to 400,000 alumni of the
University of Michigan. This is the first time (in 160 years) that
a graduate student was
so honored by having a special issue
of the university's flagship publication devoted to his research.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Philip Emeagwali with the Connection Machine in the background. Photo taken in 1990 at
Cambridge, Massachusetts (adjacent to M.I.T. campus).
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Philip Emeagwali with the Connection Machine in the background. Photo taken in 1990 at
Cambridge, Massachusetts (adjacent to M.I.T. campus).
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Philip Emeagwali with the Connection Machine in the background. Photo taken in 1990 at
Cambridge, Massachusetts (adjacent to M.I.T. campus).
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WORLD'S FASTEST HUMAN
"Faster supercomputers are needed to solve important scientific and
engineering problems. Computing twice as fast would be impressive; ten
times faster would be even more impressive.
Philip Emeagwali, a doctoral candidate in scientific computing in the
College of Engineering and the 1989 recipient of the Gordon Bell Prize
for his supercomputing research, has increased the speed of a massively
parallel supercomputer to as much as 1,000 times faster than a mainframe
computer and 1,000,000 times faster than a personal computer."
Excerpted from the February 1991 issue of Michigan Today, the flagship quarterly publication of
the University of Michigan (mailed to 400,000 alumni).
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UNIV. OF MINNESOTA
In August 1991, Emeagwali gave an invited lecture at the University of Minnesota. Discussing his work with mathematicians from the University of Minnesota (center) and University of
Southern California (right).
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UNIV. OF MINNESOTA
In 1991, Emeagwali moved from Michigan to Minnesota.
Students that attended his lecture on supercomputing
at the University of Minnesota visit him at his
home in Saint Paul (July 1992). These students were selected from a
nationwide competition. Ijeoma is sitting in front.
U-M HOSPITAL
Philip and Ijeoma on June 15, 1990 at The University of Michigan Hospital.
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IJEOMA
Ijeoma, 10 months old.
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IJEOMA
Ijeoma Emeagwali, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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IJEOMA'S BIRTHDAY
Ijeoma's first birthday party at the University of Michigan Family Housing. Standing on the
left is neighbor Paulette R. Clair.
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DALE EMEAGWALI
Dale Emeagwali's ID card, September 1987.
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TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
New Stars Emerging in Adult Tennis Tourney
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INTERNET BREAKTHROUGH
"Even though he did not have a Connection Machine in
his own backyard, NSFNET brought the resources of this
powerful supercomputer to his desktop workstation."
Laura Kelleher reports for the Link Letter
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INTERNET PIONEERS
Photo to be provided
"Philip Emeagwali, a University of Michigan computer scientist, uses a
workstation to link to Internet. 'Without this network I absolutely cannot
do my work,' he says."
Dan Gillmor reports for the July 8, 1991 issue of the
Detroit Free Press
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FAMILY HOUSING
Philip and Ijeoma at University of Michigan Family Housing (1781 Cram Circle)
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