easyskanka
December 21, 2005, 07:17 AM
The greatest African scientist Ever.
The Tecnology catergory was topped by Imotep, the multi-genius that designed Egypt's first pyramid. The science catergory was topped by Emeagwali famed for helping give birth to the super computer, the technology that gave rise to the internet.
Emeagwali's discovery of a formula that enables supercomputers powered by 65,000 electronic brains called 'processors' to perform the world's fastest calculations inspired the reinvention of supercomputers from the size and shape of a loveseat to a thousand-fold faster machine that occupies the space of four tennis courts,costs 400 million dollars a piece,powered by 65,000 processors and that can perform a billion billion calculations per second.
Emeagwali's 65,000 processors ,24,million equations and 3.1 billion calculations were three world records that garnered international headlines.
The list was topped by South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. http://emeagwali.com/media/africa/greatest-africans-of-all-times.htm
The Tecnology catergory was topped by Imotep, the multi-genius that designed Egypt's first pyramid. The science catergory was topped by Emeagwali famed for helping give birth to the super computer, the technology that gave rise to the internet.
Emeagwali's discovery of a formula that enables supercomputers powered by 65,000 electronic brains called 'processors' to perform the world's fastest calculations inspired the reinvention of supercomputers from the size and shape of a loveseat to a thousand-fold faster machine that occupies the space of four tennis courts,costs 400 million dollars a piece,powered by 65,000 processors and that can perform a billion billion calculations per second.
Emeagwali's 65,000 processors ,24,million equations and 3.1 billion calculations were three world records that garnered international headlines.
The list was topped by South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. http://emeagwali.com/media/africa/greatest-africans-of-all-times.htm