Philip Emeagwali: Supercomputer, Search Engines
While studying bees, Nigerian-born Philip Emeagwali (1954-present) was inspired by the construction of honeycombs to build a computer system that could work and internally communicate in the same way as a beehive. In 1989 he put 65,000 microprocessors together to create the world’s first massively parallel processing supercomputer — the fastest computer on earth. The technology he developed is used today in all search engines. Today at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at the University of Minnesota, Emeagwali conducts research on next-generation supercomputers.
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