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	Philip Emeagwali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philip Emeagwali (born 1954) is a Nigerian-born computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer to help analyse petroleum fields.
		Emeagwali filed a court challenge, claiming that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his race.
		Emeagwali, cites CNN as describing him as "a father of the Internet." Emeagwali bases his claim on the notion that "the Supercomputer is the father of the internet", in that both a supercomputer and the Internet can be viewed as an interconnected network of processing units working cooperatively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Emeagwali (1084 words)

	Lemelson-MIT Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Computer scientist Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954.
		Emeagwali suffered a difficult upbringing in Nigeria, living through a conflict beginning in 1967 when he was taken out of school, so his family could hide in refuge camps during an ethnic cleansing in which 50,000 Igbos were killed.
		At first, Emeagwali's proposal to use 64,000 computers to form an international network was rejected as "impossible." But he persevered, quietly writing up his calculations in a proposal that described the use of 64 binary thousand (65,536) processors to perform the world’s fastest computation.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/emeagwali.html (664 words)

	Philip Emeagwali
		Emeagwali's computer, "The Connection Machine" pictured above, was developed in 1986, and it was a full three years of poor success with the computer until he hit pay dirt.
		Although skeptics doubted even minimal gains, Emeagwali never gave up on his "baby." The breakthrough was that Emeagwali was able to link 65,536 processors, each one equal to a desk top computer, across the internet to the Connection Machine.
		Emeagwali's theory proved to be revolutionary in the world of computers.
	coestudents.valdosta.edu /irock110/emeagwali.htm (405 words)

	Chippla's Weblog - Thoughts on Issues: Is Philip Emeagwali A Fake?
		Elendu states that Emeagwali at one time filed a "suit against the University of Michigan for refusing to award him a doctorate degree in super computing or engineering." He further states that Emeagwali's work was not up to the university's standards and he was denied a PhD.
		This writer is skeptical about the claims of Philip Emeagwali with the exception of the fact that he received the Gordon Bell Award for scientific computing in 1989, which has been verified.
		Emeagwali's claim that he performed "world's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989" appears to be false.
	chippla.blogspot.com /2005/12/is-philip-emeagwali-fake.html (1865 words)

	phillippage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on August 23, 1954.
		Although Philip grew up as a poor Nigerian, in America he is spoken of as "the Bill Gates in Africa" and his personal wealth has been estimated in the millions.
		Emeagwali, whose IQ is too high to be measured on conventional tests, says "People later called me a mathematical genius, but you would be a genius, too, if you had to do 100 math problems in an hour," he said.
	www.founders.howard.edu /Reference/cybercamp/Camp99/Angel/defaultw3.htm (300 words)

	Philip Emeagwali
		Philip Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell supercomputing prize in 1989 for applying the power of networked computers to analysis of oil field reserves.
		The child of a poor Nigerian family, Emeagwali was largely self-taught in the sciences until 1974, when he won a scholarship to Oregon State University.
		Emeagwali is married to microbiologist Dale Brown Emeagwali.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/philipemeagwali.html (132 words)

	THISDAYonline
		Philip, an Ibo born in Akure, Ondo State, was the first of his father's nine children.
		Philip was such a mathematical genius that his mates soon nicknamed him 'Calculus'.
		Emeagwali was ecstatic: "I like to work on problems that are important to society because you get satisfaction," he told New African.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2001/01/27/20010127sty02.html (2080 words)

	BNW Magazine: Biafra Nigeria World :: "Father of the Internet" Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the ...
		According to Philip Emeagwali, this prize is the “highest honor in computing,” and he has referred to it as “Computing’s Nobel Prize.” In fact, it is not.
		These dollar values alone demonstrate the absurdity of Philip Emeagwali’s claims on his website, and show that he exaggerated the importance and relative status of his award by comparing it to a Nobel Prize and claiming that a Gordon Bell Prize is computing’s highest honor.
		Philip Emeagwali has claimed that if those awarding the Gordon Bell Prize had known he was fl, he would not have won the award.
	magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com /cezeilo/2003nov09.html (4243 words)

	Philip Emeagwali - Computer Scientist of the African Diaspora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Philip Emeagwali's father went to school with Chike Obi, the first African to get a Ph.D. in Mathematics.
		Philip Emeagwali was born in 1954 in Nigeria.
		Philip Emeagwali's greatest achievement, that warranted him the most praise, was The Connection Machine.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /mad/computer-science/emeagwali_philip.html (651 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Philip has accomplished many things that no one in the world could of expected.
		In 1974 Philip worked on a theoretical scheme for using 64,000 far-flung processors that would be sent around the world to forcast the weather.
		Philip Emeagwali has contributed a lifetime of inventions to the world of computers and has helped us come this far.
	www.rit.edu /~njl9527/imm/project1/page3.html (292 words)

	Dr. Philip Emeagwali 'Father of the Internet'
		Philip Emeagwali was born on August 23, 1954, in Akure, Nigeria, the son of James Emeagwali, a nurse’s aide, and his 16-year-old wife, Agatha.
		Emeagwali considers himself to be "a fl scientist with a social responsibility to communicate science to the fl diaspora." In other words, he has a dual sensibility of being deeply rooted in science while using it as a tool to remind his people in the Diaspora of where they have been and who they are.
		His wife, Dale, was born in Baltimore, was educated at Georgetown University School of Medicine, conducted research at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Michigan, and taught at the University of Minnesota.
	www.blackwebportal.com /wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=558 (1123 words)

	Black Men Rising -- Dedicated to Bridging the Digital Divide-- Philip Emeagwali, Supercomputer Pioneer
		Then Emeagwali succeeded in programming 65,536 processors to solve one of the twenty most difficult problems in the computing field.
		Emeagwali's discovery demonstrated that it is practical to design supercomputers with thousands of processors and led to the reinvention of supercomputers.
		It is used for nuclear simulations, extracting oil and gas, and studies of the atmosphere.
	www.blackmenrising.org /historypage.html (504 words)

	THISDAYonline
		Mathematician and engineer, Philip Emeagwali has been called "a father of the Internet" for his advanced formulas that in 1988 enabled more than 65,000 networked processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second, a record-breaking achievement that rejuvenated the world of super computing.
		Emeagwali has won numerous awards and is considered one of the greatest scientists in the world.
		Emeagwali's greatest achievement, that warranted him the most praise, was The Connection Machine.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/04/29/20040429lif01.html (1602 words)

	BNW Magazine: Biafra Nigeria World :: A Footnote to "Father of the Internet" Self-Promotion and ...
		This was followed by a weak attempt by Philip Emeagwali to drag others into the gutter with him by suggesting that other people were the authors of MY article.
		Emeagwali’s invitation to address the United Nations regarding his fathering of the Internet is in the mail, just as I am equally certain that it is just a matter of time before he is called to England to be knighted by the Queen.
		In the meantime, I have confirmed that Philip Emeagwali's claim that he owns a patent for inventing a "hyperball computer" is false.
	magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com /cezeilo/2004jan02.html (686 words)

	This Day in Science
		On this day in 1954, Philip Emeagwali was born in western Nigeria.
		Known to some as the "Bill Gates of Africa" and to others simply as "Calculus," Emeagwali is an exceptional mathematician and computer scientist.
		Among Emeagwali's achievements is the world's fastest computation speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second.
	www.sfscience.com /english/qtd/2000_2001/tds/8_23_2000.htm (94 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Philip has achieved many things that were unexpected from someone from Nigeria and with his origin and nationality.
		Bill Clinton in a televised speech called Philip "one of the greatest minds of the information age." (http://emeagwali.com) According to Bill Clinton, "one-third of the economic growth that occurred during his presidency was spurred by the high-tech industry.
		This award is considered to be "The Nobel Prize of computing." (http://emeagwali.com/ europe/ england/new-african.html) Philip Emeagwali was the first person to win this award alone; usually it is given out to teams of people working on the same project.
	www.rit.edu /~njl9527/imm/project1/page4.html (244 words)

	King god Philip Emeagwali-A "Living Hero Moment" - Assata Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - ...
		Born in 1954 in a remote Nigerian village, Emeagwali was declared a
		Philip Emeagwali, as you enter any room, may your presence always have the appearance of a gazelle, like a Stag on the mountain.
		Philip Emeagwali to do nothing to cause an interruption for your love for the Afrikan Family.
	www.assatashakur.org /forum/showthread.php?t=3273 (864 words)

	ILW - Dr. Philip Emeagwali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Philip Emeagwali has done a better job of exposing young people to science than anyone with his web site http://www.emeagwali.com which attracts 156,000 students per week.
		Emeagwali is the only individual winner of the IEEE Gordon Bell Prize because he used the NSFNet to deploy 56,000 individual processors to perform supercomputer calculations of oil field simulations.
		Yet, students from abroad mentioned earlier in the section were able to go all the way to their terminal degree receiving a powerful boost into entrepreneurship.
	www.ilw.com /immigdaily/News/2000,0530-WitnessEmeagwali.shtm (1447 words)

	Naija's Self-promoting laureats /Emeagwali and Oyibo fake? - The Nigerian Village Square
		Emeagwali obviously is a hard working scientist,....but the man is quite controversial in the sense that few of his claims to fame (as on Science Daily) could be verified.
		Philip has never gone on record anywhere (not as I know) for getting a massive research funding for a computer project.
		Philip must be a voodoo scientist to be claiming that, after his Michigan debut around 1987, there was still anything in parallel computers for him to invent.
	www.nigeriavillagesquare.com /board/showthread.php?t=3654 (1708 words)

	BNW : Biafra Nigeria World Message Board: the Voice of a New Generation: Philip Emeagwali Attacks Chioma Ezeilo @ ...
		Emeagwali Expelled from the University of Michigan after flunking his qualifying exams and turning in a junk doctoral thesis.
		It pains you that Emeagwali should regain even one inch of his reputation, which has calously been thrown to the dogs here at Biafra forum to the glee and delight of the likes of Daud at.
		Had the issue with Philip been unfair and substantiated bias against him be it by the nigerian government or Michigan U, the call to rally behind him would have to me garnered the needed support.
	messageboard.biafranigeriaworld.com /ultimatebb.cgi/ubb/get_topic/f/1/t/001973/p/2.html (4572 words)

	BNW : Biafra Nigeria World Message Board: the Voice of a New Generation: Philip Emeagwali Attacks Chioma Ezeilo @ ...
		If CNN did indeed report this on Emeagwali, the I dare say that by all standards of logic, emeagwalis claim (I have been described as "one of the fathers of the Internet,"), however unfounded it may be, is indeed factual and accurrate as CNN (and probably others) did actually describe him as such.
		Emeagwali was busy distracting himself with things that were irrelevant to his education as a civil engineering student, things in another department where he had no business, was not a candidate for any degree, and was not properly admitted as a student.
		Anyway, the discussion about what Emeagwali has for masters degree is purely conjectural since you have failed to provide the dates of his graduation from the schools you claim he attended, and the University of Michigan admissions requirements that you cited may have been updated since 1987 when Emeagwali was admitted there.
	messageboard.biafranigeriaworld.com /ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=001973 (16687 words)

	Games Web Page
		Emeagwali, the Delta State-born Nigerian â American, was one of several thousand children tortured by Kwashiokor during the Nigerian Civil War.
		The name, Philip Emeagwali is today a household name in information technology.
		One of the great lessons to learn from Emeagwali's life is that without the scholarship to study in the U.S. his life would not have had meaning.
	fajol.s5.com /custom.html (1163 words)

	African American Registry: Dr. Phillip Emeagwali, the Father of the Internet!
		Philip Emeagwali* was born on this date 1954.
		Emeagwali's greatest achievement was his work on The Connection Machine.
		Emeagwali considers himself to be "a Black scientist with a social responsibility to communicate science to the Black Diaspora." He has a dual sensibility of being deeply rooted in science while using it as a tool to remind his people in the Diaspora of where they have been and who they are.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2793/Dr_Phillip_Emeagwali_the_Father_of_the_Internet (564 words)

	Toyota.com : Moving Forward : 2005 : March : Toyota Observes Black History Month
		In 1975, Dr. Emeagwali read a 1922 science fiction article on how to use 64,000 mathematicians to forecast the weather for the whole Earth.
		Dr. Emeagwali's formula used 65,000 separate computer processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989.
		These include the Computer Scientist of the Year Award of the National Technical Association (1993), Distinguished Scientist Award of the World Bank (1998), profiled in the book Making It in America as one of "400 models of eminent Americans," and in Who's Who in 20th Century America.
	www.toyota.com /html/movingforward/2005/march/emeagwali.html (287 words)

	The Black Commentator - Globalization Not New: Look at the Slave Trade - Issue 110
		The following is a keynote speech delivered by famed computer scientist Philip Emeagwali on September 18, 2004, at the Pan-African Conference on Globalization, Washington DC.
		Globalization — or the ability of many people, ideas and technology to move from country to country — is not new.
		If we can give our children pride in their past, then we can show them what they can be and give them the self-respect that will make them succeed.
	www.blackcommentator.com /110/110_globalization.html (2622 words)

	Emeagwali talks about race
		One of the great minds of the Information Age is a Black Man named Philip Emeagwali.
		Emeagwali's illustration of how to apply parallel data spaces to design his hyperball computer.
		Emeagwali invented the theory of parallel data space.
	whgbetc.com /page/emeagwali_talks_about_race.html (2024 words)

	ImmInst.org -> My Search for the Holy Grail of Immortality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Transcript of keynote lecture delivered by Emeagwali at conference of Black Data Processing Association, Augusta, Georgia, April 26, 2003.
		The second and thrid parts of this lecture were delivered at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the University of Paris (France).
		Philip Emeagwali, a computer scientist, is but one example.
	www.imminst.org /forum/index.php?s=&act=ST&f=69&t=1864 (609 words)

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