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Philip Emeagwali(born in ) is an Igbo Nigerian-born engineer and computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help analyze petroleum fields.
Emeagwaliwas born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August He dropped out of school in because of the Nigerian-Biafran war.
Emeagwali received a $1, Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel compute
Life
Emeagwaliwas born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August He dropped out of school in because of the Nigerian-Biafran war.
When he turned fourteen, he was conscripted into the Biafran army. After the war he completed a high-school equivalency through self-study and went to the United States to study under a scholarship after taking a correspondence course at the University of London.[citation needed] He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in He was also working as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming during this period.
Awards
Emeagwali received a $1, Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel compute