Philip Emeagwali’s fascination with the natural world helped him create a supercomputer.

He realised how efficient bees were in building honeycombs in the hive, and used these ideas to create a supercomputer which was reportedly able to do over 3 billion calculations per second.

His computers are used to predict the weather and the effects of global warming.

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This work was supported by the Institute of Coding, which is supported by the Office for Students (OfS).