Quote Of the Day

"In the 1980s, I was a mathematical physicist logged on 24/7 to a 65,536-brain supercomputer on think.com — the third registered dot com ever. It was an unpaid labor of love. I was tormented by self-doubt, a maniac who pushed his supercomputer to its breaking point. Each one of us must learn to move outside our comfort zones. We learn with each step we take into the unknown. When I was five, my father discovered that I was slow in mathematics. He decided to teach me to solve 100 math problems in one hour. Thereafter, my ability to do rapid calculations earned me the nickname 'Calculus' and set me on the path to become a supercomputer scientist who solved one of the most difficult problems in mathematics. Crossing the frontiers of knowledge to conquer tomorrow’s grand challenges will demand revolutionary techniques. In my new technique, my 65,536 processors perform computations side by side, linked by 16 wires, each corresponding to the 16 sides of a 16-dimensional hypercube. This is the essence of 'higher' mathematics: go beyond calculus and mine infinite dimensional spaces." — Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian-born computer scientist and geologist who won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel prize of supercomputing