Philip Emeagwali: Nigerian man recognised as one of the fathers of the internet
- Philip Emeagwali's inventive spirit has placed Nigeria high among comity of nations around the world
- The Nigerian inventor has also maximised the power of microprocessors to achieve results that were originally meant to only be done with supercomputers
- The supercomputing scientist has contributed so much to internet of things that his inventions are being used to forecast weather and oil discovery
Philip Emeagwali is one of the many Nigerian geniuses in the diaspora constantly placing the nation on a high pedestal with his inventiveness and good desire to drive how things are processed with the power of technology.
It should be noted that Emeagwali was born in Akure in 1954 and has solved tens of mathematics problems within an hour. No wonder many of his childhood friends called him “calculus”.
His family had to leave their home immediately the 1967 civil war broke out, and would later move to a refugee camp until the war ended in 1970.
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In the 1980s, the Nigerian inventor began a project that could employ the power of supercomputers to locate undiscovered oil reservoirs.
It was gathered that his passion to use technology to solve life’s issues picked up when he saw that he could leverage the power of the internet to find oil.
Understanding how very expensive that approach could be, he went on to use the microprocessors to achieve the same goal.
Another great thing the Nigerian inventor achieved was maximizing interconnected microprocessors that originally could not have been able to process more than 60,000 processors at a time to make 65,538 smaller processors work.
According to Math Buffalo, his programming processed over 3.1 billion in just a second, a power that could be used to measure the amount of oil in a reservoir.
Emeagwali has won several awards, one of which is the popular Gordon Bell Prize, a prize that is very popular for computation.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that in 2002, a Malawian teenager, William Kwamkwamba, made the almost-impossible thing happen when he built a windmill from junks and restored electricity to his village.
What was most inspiring about his story is that his knowledge on the invention was self-taught as he had to gather knowledge from borrowed books in the library.
The boy had to quit school at the very tender age of 14 because his family could not fund his $80-a-year fees.
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