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Philip Emeagwali

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


— Philip Emeagwali


#endowed #energetic #human #human resources #lacks

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


— Philip Emeagwali


#being #going #homeless #made #many

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


— Philip Emeagwali


#hiv #infected #know #percent

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.


— Philip Emeagwali


#because #believe #humans #i #i believe

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.


— Philip Emeagwali


#briefly #how #interconnected #processors #program

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.


— Philip Emeagwali


#depend #lives #our #our lives #performing

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.


— Philip Emeagwali


#dropped #due #eight #financial #formal

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.


— Philip Emeagwali


#arrived #computer #during #first #first time

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.


— Philip Emeagwali


#borrow #first #i #identify #nature

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


— Philip Emeagwali


#encountered #future #hardships #help #i






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His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and external examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree. During this time he worked as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming. He won in the "price/performance" category with a performance figure of 400 Mflops/$1M corresponding to an absolute performance of 3.

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