Philip Emeagwali has been listed as amongst the top 10 most intelligent
people in the world, having the acclaimed IQ of 190.
Philip Emeagwali, of course, is a renowed and world-acclaimed engineer,
mathematician, computer scientist and geologist who was one of two winners of
the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection
Machine supercomputer to help detect petroleum fields.
He has the 9th slot directly below Marilyn vos Savant, 8th with
verified IQ of 190 and directly above 10th placed Garry Kasparov who is alleged
to have an IQ of 190.
The Igbo-born Nigerian is credited for inventing a formula that allows
supercomputers powered by thousands of processors to perform billions of
calculations per second, a discovery that made international headlines and
inspired the reinvention of supercomputers.
The supercomputer comprises of thousands of networked computers and the
Internet also comprises of millions of networked computers. The supercomputer
spawned the Internet.
Emeagwali’s 1970s hypothesis on 64,000 networked computers around the
Earth led to his programming of 64,000 processors inside a big box to perform
3.1 billion calculations per second, a world record in 1989. For the latter
achievement, he won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, which is the “Nobel prize of
supercomputing.”
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