Internet and I: The Mind Behind the Technology

Описание: The Reader’s Digest described Philip Emeagwali as “smarter than Albert Einstein.” Philip Emeagwali is often ranked as the world’s greatest living genius and scientist. He is listed in the top 20 greatest minds that ever lived. That list includes Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Confucius. Philip Emeagwali is studied in schools as a living historical figure.


PHILIP EMEAGWALI BIOGRAPHY SERIES:

1. Master of Machines: The Man Who Put Supercomputing on the Map
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2. Making Computers Fly: Forging Paths to New Heights
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3. The Equation Behind the Universe: The Genius Behind the World's Fastest Computer
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4. Inventing an Internet: Introducing a Supercomputer
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5. Reaching Infinity: The Genius From a Distant Land
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6. Coding the Impossible: Telescoping to the Unknown
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7. A Coder's Life: Making Computers More Powerful
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8. Internet and I: The Mind Behind the Technology
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In 1989, Philip Emeagwali rose to fame when he won a recognition described as the Nobel Prize of Supercomputing and made the news headlines for his invention of first world’s fastest computing across an Internet that’s a global network of processors. CNN called him "A Father of the Internet." House Beautiful magazine ranked his invention among nine important everyday things taken for granted. In a White House speech of August 26, 2000, then U.S. President Bill Clinton described Philip Emeagwali as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.”


[How I Discovered a Quantum Leap in Supercomputer Speed]

At 8:15 in the morning, on July 4, 1989,
in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA,
I discovered how to increase
the speed of the fastest computer
and do so by a factor of 65,536.
I recorded my computer speedup across
as many processors.
On that day, I also discovered how to,
in theory, increase that speed
by a factor of one billion across
one billion processors.
I visualized those one billion processors
as uniformly encircling a globe
and doing so as a new Internet.
That new Internet was where I executed
the world’s fastest computing.
For six months after my discovery
of fastest computing, leading supercomputer scientists
were shocked at the speed
of my calculations.
But some supercomputer scientists
mocked my discovery
of the alternative way of executing
the world’s fastest computing.
And using that new knowledge
to solve the most difficult problems
arising in mathematics.
The naysayers wrote that
Philip Emeagwali
has made a quote, unquote
“terrible mistake.”
Those naysayers stopped laughing at me
after it was announced that my discovery
of the world’s fastest computing
has been validated.
I won the highest award in supercomputing
and for the year 1989.
My discovery of fastest computing
made the news headlines around the world
and became my signature invention.
It’s the reason Philip Emeagwali
is the subject of school essays.
Achieving that 65,536-fold increase
in supercomputer speed
was a fundamental change
of tectonic proportions
that changed the way
we look at the world’s fastest computer.
Computing across up to a billion processors
was a magical change because
it was both unexpected and extraordinary.
The reason my scientific discovery
of the world’s fastest computing
made the news headlines
was that the new technology
was both unorthodox and revolutionary.



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