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Philip Emeagwali

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The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.


— Philip Emeagwali


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The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.


— Philip Emeagwali


#hardship #living #made #me #psychologically

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.


— Philip Emeagwali


#brave #computer #enough #entirely #guinea

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.


— Philip Emeagwali


#assignments #classroom #college #comfortable #education






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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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