Dr. Philip Emeagwali,the inventor of the worlds fastest computer.

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Dr Philip Emeagwali (1954-present ) also known as the "Bill Gates of Africa" was born August 23, 1954 in Akure, a remote  village in Nigeria. Philip Emeagwali was the oldest of nine children and was considered a child prodigy because he was an excellent math student. His father spent lots of time  helping and nurturing Emeagwali with mathematics. He was so good in math that by the time he got to high school, he was performing so well that his classmates nicknamed him  "Calculus."

Like many African schoolchildren, he dropped out of school  at age 14 because his father could not continue paying the fees to keep him in school. However, his father continued  teaching him at home, and everyday Emeagwali performed mental exercises such as solving 100 math problems in one hour. His father taught him until Philip "knew more than his father did he did."

A family photo taken with Emeagwali and his cousin Charles (third from right) with him standing on the right (December 1962 at Uromi, Nigeria). He dropped out of school four and half years later.

During the Nigeria Civil war, Emeagwali lived in a building  crumbled by rocket shells. He believed his intellect was a  way out of the line of fire. So he studied hard and eventually received a scholarship to Oregon State  University when he was 17 where he obtained a BS in mathematics. He also earned three other degrees  a Ph. D.  in Scientific computing from the University of Michigan and  two Masters degrees from George Washington University.

Dr. Philip Emeagwali received the following honor and awards:

1989 Won Gordon Bell Prize, the highest honor in  super-computing.

1991 Scientist of the Year, National Society of Black Engineers

1993 Computer Scientist of the Year, National Technical Association

1993 IEEE Distinguished Supercomputer Visitor

1995 ACM Distinguished Supercomputer Lecturer

Dr. Philip Emeagwali also received acclaim based, at least in  part, on his study of nature, specifically bees. Emeagwali  saw an inherent efficiency in the way bees construct and  work with honeycomb and determined computers that emulate this process would be the more efficient and more  powerful. In the year 1989, emulating the bees' honeycomb  construction, Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer, which performs computations  at 3.1 billion calculations per second.

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