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Posts by Philip Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali (emeagwali.info) helped give birth to the supercomputer - the technology that spawned the Internet. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, which has been dubbed the "Nobel Prize of Supercomputing".

I became literate in English but remain illiterate in Igbo – my native tongue. I learned Latin – a dead language I would never use in the modern world… Today, there are more English speakers in Nigeria than there are in the United Kingdom…