This breakthrough demonstrated that computers with thousands of processors can solve significant real-world problems and alerted the computing industry to the potential of this new technology. Nine years later, IBM used this technology to design the Deep Blue chess computer that defeated the world's best chess player, the Russian-born Gary Kasporov. First to demonstrate that the classic arrangement used by greengrocers to pack oranges could be used to arrange the processors of the most powerful parallel computers. This achievement made the headlines in several countries and was discussed in NBC's The Today Show, written in The Wall Street Journal and distributed by international news agencies. The new equations also resolved a 60-year mathematical debate in which one of the participants committed suicide after losing the argument.
Differential equations are the most challenging and important problems in mathematics.
This breakthrough alerted the petroleum industry that parallel computer technology could be used to d iscover and recover more oil. Today, one in ten parallel computers are purchased by the petroleum industry. Since the Earth also has a spherical structure, the hyperball computer will accurately forecast long-term global warming. The Ways of Counting Emeagwali writes on the history of computing Decoding the Silent Lyrics of Rain Forests Emeagwali outlines how to build a revolutionary phytocomputer. This multimedia CD-ROM contains info on Emeagwali.