@flyuche

dont bother, he has closed his mind to all points.

@Ex, Have u ever checked the meaning of these words "INTELLECTUAL HONESTY"?

Check the Gordon's Bell's award website and post ur details.

Well, Djcn will be in some creeks for some 3 wks and ve been informed that there aint an ISP for internet services there, to all rivals, friends, and all, Post the best, Think the best, Live the best. Thx

@djcn

mind you dont fall overboard the canoe and drown.

hmm, not a bad idea if you did.

DJCN,

You echoed my earlier opinion which is still what i think. Thank you very much for the research.

It is funny that Ex still read this and instead of accepting the truth as you put it without bias, he prefered to do exactly what human nature does.

Ex,
Good luck, but then you cannot remove from his achievement.
Your achievement can only dwarf his own and we are waiting for you to do as much or just keep quiet.

You said you want to pull him down, haha

Flyuche,
he did not share his prize with anyone. I think even the link you guys posted showed him standing alone in his column.

Anya ufu di baad

See a good example of how Nigerians treat one of there own.

A prophet is never recognised in his own country they say.

Unfortunately, despite the wide coverage given this achievement of the Balogun-Oke by the UK media, no Nigerian organisation or media, or even our Nigeria High Commission, has deemed it fit to recognise and congratulate her

http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles/2860/1/The-Story-of-Julianah-Balogun-Oke-A-Champion-Mother/Page1.html

Why shld this thing be a big issue. Afterall there are a whole lot of companies and individuals - even some of u [IT especially]- out there that blow their trumpets beyond their capabilities, achievements and what have u. And we are all here, get busy crucifying another sinful man while we have ours - even if he sins at all. Abeg let he without sin cast the first stone - courtesy Jesus

U guys shld even realise that records cannot prove everything. A lot of things happen behind records - u'll understand if u've heard of such events and watched such films - e.g Prison Break

The reason all this rumours lasted this long is because they started when the internet was new to Nigerians.
Virtually everyone has access to the internet now so one idiot can't stop propagating nonsense about himself.
I remember back then when nigerians used to make noise all over the place about the so called nigerian that built the fastest computer in the world, yada yada yada.
GOOGLE/WIKIPEDIA is ur best friend.

Someone on this thread said he is not even a Dr.Look what i came across on his site

prof.?

Hmmmm

Phillip Emeagwali finally speaks. Go here.

http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/articles-comments/58908-what-did-emeagwali-discover.html

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What Did Emeagwali Discover? (Part1)
Written by Emeagwali.com
Monday, 15 November 2010 23:17


What Did Emeagwali Discover?

Introduction

This is the first in our weekly Monday series that will provide answers to our most frequently asked questions. In this column, we will focus on Philip Emeagwali’s discoveries and inventions, and will answer specific questions, such as, Why was Emeagwali called one of the fathers of the Internet?

How did his seventeen years in eight degree programs at five universities help him solve one of the “20 Grand Challenges” in science and engineering? Why did he need a supercomputer that sends and receives emails as an internet to solve it? How did he get exclusive access to a supercomputer, which today costs 1.32 BILLION dollars, according to The Wall Street Journal (October 4, 2010)?

Most importantly, how did he become a famous scientist? The key to success, Emeagwali believes, is to make discoveries and inventions and then become famous for creating new knowledge to be taught to mankind, present and future. The reason President Bill Clinton extolled Philip Emeagwali for creating the knowledge now used to program the supercomputer is that Clinton understood that the inventor is the first teacher of his invention to humanity.

Our weekly series will put the most emphasis on his discoveries and inventions. We’ll begin with Emeagwali’s “41 patent claims,” filed 20 years ago.

Regards,


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His Inventions

Philip Emeagwali scribbled the actual equations used by the oil company Exxon (now Exxon Mobil) to simulate the flow of oil, water, and gas inside its petroleum reservoirs. Emeagwali pointed out that four forces exist inside every petroleum reservoir; he discovered that the Exxon Mobil equation had summed only three forces. Emeagwali correctly summed all four forces, namely: pressure, viscosity, gravity, and inertia. After learning about his discovery, Mobil Research and Development invited him (in a letter dated March 19, 1990) help the company in “reservoir simulation.” It’s as abstract as the Navier-Stokes equations listed in the “Seven Millennium Problems” but yet computably solved by Emeagwali. His equivalent of six degrees in mathematics and engineering helped him to discover the 36 partial derivative inertial terms and to invent 36 algorithms for solving them.

His Lectures

As an invited speaker at the world’s largest gathering of mathematicians on July 8, 1991, in Washington, D.C, Philip Emeagwali presented his discoveries and inventions to the field’s foremost experts. From 1993 to 1998, Emeagwali represented the world’s two premier computer societies, The IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery, as their Distinguished Speaker at Computer Science Departments in the United States. As the headline speaker at a top science festival (on January 30, 2009, near Calcutta, India), he held 7,000 attendees spellbound for 40 minutes. When he stepped down from the stage, the audience mobbed him like a rock star.

How “41 Patent Claims” Was Shortened to “Patents”

Stories evolve, often subtly, with each retelling by others. The retelling of the story of “the 41 patent claims” that Philip Emeagwali told on July 8, 1991 at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics evolved into “41 patents.”

This conference is to mathematics what the World Cup is to soccer—unique and held only once every four years. Emeagwali told mathematicians at the conference that he had filed 41 patent claims, which covered the 36 algorithms he had invented for solving the 36 partial derivative inertial terms that he had discovered.

As non-mathematicians retold his story, his “41 patent claims” was shortened to “41 patents.” Similarly, his young age of 35 years, published accurately in a 1989 interview, was repeated over and over for 21 years, which contributed to a few mistaken tabloid media attacks claiming Emeagwali had “lied about his age.”

Philip Emeagwali told the mathematicians at the International Congress that his 41 patent claims were precise legal definitions of his algorithms for solving the 36 partial derivative inertial terms that he had discovered. He filed his 36 algorithms as 36 patent claims to avoid losing some of his rights and protection under the law. He also filed five additional dependent claims, bringing his total number of claims to 41.

Emeagwali stopped pursuing his patent claims because the United States Patent and Trademark Office told him that his 36 algorithms were discoveries, not inventions. He argued that they were inventions, not discoveries, explaining that although the Second Law of Motion encoded within his algorithms was not patentable, his algorithmic techniques that embodied that Second Law within supercomputers should be, because they are the discrete analogue of the 36 partial derivative inertial terms that he had discovered. In other words, they were functions with input and output.

Patenting algorithms was a gray area in 1989.Today, it is possible to patent algorithms; however, because he publicly disclosed his inventions in 1989, the one year filing deadline passed.

Importantly, scientific progress is only measured by discoveries, not patents. To discover means to see something that is previously unseen or unknown. Philip Emeagwali discovered that petroleum reservoir engineers summed only three forces, instead of summing all four forces within their oilfields. The word “invent” means the contrivance of that which did not before exists. He invented 36 algorithms for summing all four forces.

To invent means to originate or create as a product of the inventor’s ingenuity. It does not mean to patent. In supercomputing, it means to correctly formulate and solve one of the “Twenty Grand Challenges” at a world-record speed. Philip Emeagwali simulated the flow of oil, water, and gas— with the forces correctly summed—at the then unheard of speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second. It was a Grand Challenge that was of interest to Mobile, but completed by one man in 1989.

In summary, Philip Emeagwali received a standing ovation at the International Congress for telling the field’s foremost experts that: Exxon was falsifying its petroleum reservoir equations and that the equations taught in universities are not equating to what’s happening inside a petroleum reservoir. It is an unpatented invention just as the internet is an unpatented invention. Your dictionary defines the word “invention” without using the word “patent” and groundbreaking inventions, such as the Internet, cannot be patented because it has many fathers, mothers, aunts, and uncles. Most importantly, the discoverer is the first teacher of his discovery to humanity.

Thanks bro.
Now, your enemies can die in pieces.

To be perfectly honest Philip Emeagwali is a Crook, The Gordon Bell prize is not the nobel prize of computing, The claims that he created the fastest computer in 1989 are false he won the prize for the "price/performance" category however even in this category he only came second, he came second to the team that build the fastest computer they decided not to award both prizes to the same team so they gave the "price/performance" prize to Emeagwali.

The reason CNN and the BBC post all this utter rubbish about him is simple because there are very few leading black Scientists around the world and I figure this is a chance to inspire the hundereds of millions of africans into believing they can be the next Emeagwali.

You guys should get a life.
If you can do better than him go and do your own .

Why do people research to bring other peoples achievement down? Am a Programmer and a computer scientist and i know how difficult its to make one line of code work well, if not ask the owners of niaraland how they struggle to maintain this forum.

Why not praise and support Philip for his achievements even though there lapses some where.

Many fools here commenting rubbish dont even have anything to write home about.

We all know that it will take a genius to make his feet in another land. Having won Some prizes and contributed immensely in Computer evolution, I believe he deserves a credit.
As for the "Dr." He could have been denied of the honor, isn't that what prompted him to sue the university in the court.
All I know is that Emegwali is one of the greatest tutor, lecturer, motivate, poet, scientist, mathematician and programmer of all times. I believe behind any fallacy, rumor or acclaimancy, their could be an indented truth. Please that man is my hero and model.

Hmmmn

Bosahchude:
Philip Emeagwali – Genius or Crook?
There’s been much news going on about the so called great Nigerian scientist “Philip Emeagwali” but unfortunately, most of them are untrue. Emeagwali has been virtually worshipped buy Nigerians and others around the world based on false information which has led to his face appearing on a postage stamp and him being voted the 35th greatest African of all time by the “New Africa Magazine”.

This thread is aimed correcting most of these untrue claims by Emeagwali.

Philip Emeagwali not Dr. Philip Emeagwali
Firstly, Emeagwali has been wrongfully quoted by newspapers and even on his site as being a “Dr.” But this is an actual fallacy because he does not have a PhD, though he enrolled for a PhD program at the University of Michigan he did not get the degree because he failed the qualification examination twice but still he seems parades himself around as a “Dr.”.

Emeagwali did not win the Nobel Prize
Emeagwali has not in any way won the Nobel Prize nor its equivalent as reported by many and on his self promoting website, the only prize ever won by Emeagwali is the Gordon bell prize in 1989 worth $1,000 which he and his Mobil team won for their application of the Connection Machine – 2 supercomputer in oil-reservoir modelling.

Emeagwali did not built the fastest computer of 1989
The fastest computer of 1986 is the FSU which ran at 10.3GFLOPS while the connection machine which Emeagwali wrote a program to on for which he and his team won the Gordon Bell prize in prize/performance ratio, ran at 3.1GFLOPS, this machine was designed by Danny Hills and built by Thinking Machines Corporation and not by Philip Emeagwali as he wrongfully claims on his website and in press interviews.

Emeagwali is not the father of the internet.
Emeagwali claims that he rearranged the 65,536 processors of the Connection Machine so that they were arranged in a 3-dimentional Hypercube network and that his invention was the technology that spawned the internet. This is again another false claim by Philip Emeagwali because the connection machine was originally designed with a Hypercube Network and it was long known arrangement. Also, there is nothing liking Emeagwali with ARPA, DOD or any other research organization that was connected with the birth of the internet.

Emeagwali does not have any patents or inventions.
Emeagwali has been credited with so many inventions, most of them hilarious and he also claims to have as much as 30 patents and 50 patent applications but a search on USPTO which has an online database of patents since 1976 shows the true number to be zero. The only time Emeagwali’s name has appeared in any scientific journal of any kind is when he and his Mobil team won the Gordon Bell Prize in 1989.

There are many more baseless rumours flying around Nigeria which are completely baseless, dumb and humorous but are surprisingly widely believed. I’ll try to list some of them here. They are:

Emeagwali created windows but Bill Gates Stole his invention.
There is an “Emeagwali street” somewhere in the US.
Emeagwali is the most booked man for an appointment in the World.
Emeagwali is currently creating a teleportation machine.
Emeagwali wrote an equation to show how sperm swims in semen.
Emeagwali is the brain behind Microsoft.
www.emeagwali.com is the oldest website on the internet.


We Nigerians have to stop kidding ourselves over a self pompous and highly over exaggerated man who has accomplished close to nothing but writes a website about himself and fills it up with lies. While the armature media we have in this country swallows everything they hear without scrutiny.

Sources:
http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov09.html
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/emeag.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Philip_Emeagwali
http://emeagwali.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

am jus baffled u wasted ur tym to jus write bad things about some1 jus mind ur biz, what have u gained nw

Whoever that made this useless write up against Philip Emegwali is a confusionist and a very unlearned and annoying fellow, pls remember that wikipedia is not a place where people make suggestions but still the wikipedia said he invented the super computer, for the PHD you talked of the university did not award him that certificate after he finished from the school 2yrs afterward, he surted the university saying that they are been practicing racism and is against his human right and michigan supreme court cancelled the case they didn't tell us that he failed any common entrance examination, and we don't have to believe you or have you convience us because Bill Clinton said it during his tenure as president in a speech " this is a product of what Nigerian can do or even become when given the opprtunity". Pls whoever you are you are very annoying and an enemy of progress stop this nonesense and stop decieve people, nairaland if you need a need information the google is there and try to check the wikipedia and leave the junk or drunk.

Whoever that made this useless write up against Philip Emegwali is a confusionist and a very unlearned and annoying fellow, pls remember that wikipedia is not a place where people make suggestions but mind you the wikipedia said he invented the super computer, for the PHD you talked of, the university did not award him that certificate after he finished from the school 2yrs afterward, he surted the university saying that they are practicing racism and is against his human right and michigan supreme court cancelled the case they didn't tell us that he failed any common entrance examination, and we don't have to believe you or have you convience us because Bill Clinton said it during his tenure as president in a speech " this is a product of what Nigerian can do or even become when given the opprtunity". Pls whoever you are, you are very annoying and an enemy of progress stop this nonesense and stop decieveing people, nairaland if you need any information the google is there please make use of it and try to check the wikipedia and leave the junk or drunk.