Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about PHILIP EMEAGWALI!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Philip Emeagwali (born 23 August 1954) is a Nigerian computer scientist . he won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for price-performance in high-performance computing applications . his early schooling was suspended in he is married to Dale brown Emeagwali, a noted African-American microbiologist . he received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Oregon state university in 1977 . next magazine suggested he worked as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming . his thesis was not accepted by a committee of examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree . he filed a mobil research and thinking machines, used the CM-2 for seismic data processing . he achieved the higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M . Digital Giants: Philip Emeagwali (BBC) Biography (Archive, as of May 26, 2009).