Dr Philip Emeagwali: Outlining the 25 Discovery Of Nigeria World Greatest Scientist

Philip Emeagwali (born in 1954) is a Nigerian-born engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and geologist. He was the winner of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize in the "price/performance" category, for his use of a Connection Machine .

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Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954.[1] His early schooling was suspended in 1967 as a result of the Nigerian Civil War. At 14 years, he served in the Biafran army. After the war he completed high-school equivalence through self-study.
He is married to Dale Brown Emeagwali, a noted African-American microbiologist

A Nigerian has joined the ranks of Steve Job of Apple Computer and Bill Gates of Microsoft in the world of communication and computing.
Dr. Philip Emeagwali, originally from Onitsha, Anambra state, Nigeria, although born in Akure, Ondo State in August 1954, has made history - he is one of those being honored during the 50th anniversary of the computer.
Among Dr. Emeagwali's scientific achievements are:
1) World's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989;
2) World record for solving the largest partial differential equations with 8 million grid points in 1989;
3)World record for solving the largest weather forecasting equations with 128 million grid points in 1990;
4) World record for an unprecedented parallel computer speedup of 2048 in 1989;
5) World record for an unprecedented parallel computer speedup of 65536 in 1990;
6) First successful implementation of a petroleum reservoir model on a massively parallel computer in 1989;
7) Credited with alerting the petroleum industry that massively parallel computers can be used to recover more oil;
First to program a massively parallel computer to outperform a conventional (vector) supercomputer in 1988;
9) First to have applied a pseudo-time approach in reservoir modeling in 1990;
10) Credited with pioneering the use of the "vast resources" of the Internet in supercomputing in the 1980s;
11) Credited with conclusively demonstrating that computers with thousands of processing nodes can solve significant real-world problems in 1989;
12) Formulated the counter-intuitive speedup paradox which states that there are two different but correct theoretical speedup of parallel computers;
13) Formulated the theory of tessellated models for parallel computing;
14) Introduced the concept of network frequency for parallel computers;
15) Introduced the concept of parallel data spaces;
16) Discovered enantiomeric networks;
17) Designed the first Fibonacci hypertree network;
16 Processor Hypertree Computer Network
18) Discovered the relationship between sphere packing and fast computing;
19) Invented hyperball computer networks;
20) Derived new partial differential equations for low inertial fluid flows;
21) Derived error stopping criterion for high inertial-fluid flows;
22) Discovered the analogy between Darcy's equations used in petroleum reservoir simulations and geostrophic equations used in weather forecasting;
23) Derived a new set of porous media flow equations that is vectorizable, parallelizable, and surprisingly, fifty times less computation-intensive than the original formulation;
24) Proved that the use of only Dirichlet type boundary conditions yields more accurate numerical solutions in the vicinity of petroleum producing wells located near the boundary and is therefore suitable for avoiding the coning problem caused by the high velocity of converging flows in the vicinity of wells;
25) Demonstrated the analogy between high-speed computation and high-speed ballistic missile by proving that the mixing of high- and low-resolution timing can lead to fatal error in measuring the performance of fast computers and tracking the motion of fast missiles. This fatal subtraction error resulted in the death, on 25 February 1991, of 28 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War when the U.S. Patriot missile failed to shoot down the Iraqi Scud missile.
Dr. Emeagwali's academic achievements are alarming. He received his Ph.D. in scientific computing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with concentration and research on massively parallel computing with interdisciplinary applications. Although the final approval of his 1057-page dissertation is pending, it has already won several awards from leading technical societies.
Among his other degrees are: Master of Arts in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park; Master of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, George Washington University, Washington D.C.; Engineer Degree in Ocean and Marine Engineering, George Washington University, Washington D.C.; Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, with minor in physics and astronomy.
Believe it or not, Philip is still studying. He has completed all but six courses needed to earn a second bachelor's degree in civil engineering; completed sufficient courses for an additional master's degree and the equivalent of two doctoral dissertations.
In honoring Dr. Emeagwali in a full page article on the 50th anniversary of computer, EDS wrote:
"The women and men of EDS salute those whose insights, vision and persistence have contributed to developing this remarkable tool.
"A leader among them is Dr. Philip Emeagwali. Emeagwali is an interdisciplinary computer scientist and inventor who developed software that allowed multiple processors to tackle complex problems simultaneously, paving the way to solving problems once thought unsolvable.
"Inspired by the complex designs of nature, Emeagwali used geometry to prove that bees use the most efficient method possible to construct their honeycombs. He reasoned that a computer based on the honeycomb design could improve efficiency. It did. His design breakthrough allowed 65,000 processors working together to perform the world's fastest computation at 3.1 billion calculations per second. That was three times the speed of the fastest supercomputers of the day - at one-fifth the cost. He is working on developing supercomputers powerful enough to simulate weather trends over a century to investigate atmospheric warming," EDS said.
Dr. Emeagwali was honored by the National Society of Black Engineers during their convention in Nashville, Tennessee from March 27-31, 1996. In a letter dated March 17, 1996 and signed by Jataun Robinson, it said, "I am writing you this letter to congratulate you on winning the National Society of Black Engineers Alumni Extension (NSBE-AE) Pioneer of the Year Award.... During the convention, a special awards luncheon will be held to honor you.... The awards luncheon is on Saturday, March 30, 1996...."
Dr. Emeagwali has been featured in various "Who's Who" books,

Dr. Emeagwali is married with a 5-year-old son, Ijeoma. His wife, Dr. Dale Brown Emeagwali is a molecular biologist. A native of Baltimore, she teaches at Morgan State University.
Dr. Emeagwali, who came to the United States on March 23, 1974, is a member of various professional organizations, such as American Physical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, American Meteorological Society, National Society of Black Engineers, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, United States Parachute Association, National Aeronautic Association and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Dr. Emeagwali is an independent consultant with the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has submitted 41 inventions covering seven technologies to the Patent and Trademark Office. He is now preparing funding proposals to build prototypes of these inventions and create a new company that will market and license the resulting products.
Dr. Emeagwali, 41, is still researching. His other research interests are: Parallel Computing, Routing Networks, Fast Computations, Fluid Dynamics, Pollution Transport, Computational Aerodynamics, Flood Forecasting, Atmospheric and Ocean Models, Petroleum Reservoir Simulation, and Nature-lnspired Networks.
Even Nigerian Embassy could not overlook Dr. Emeagwali's contribution to the American society. In a letter dated Sept. 6, 1990, the then Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Hon. Hamzat Ahmadu wrote:
"I was very pleased and proud to read of your distinguished achievement in the field of Civil Engineering and Scientific Computing and wish to offer you my sincere congratulations for your remarkable achievement. I am equally pleased to learn that you won the Gordon Bell Prize, for the program you developed which will enable engineers determine where best to place wells in order to capture as much trapped oil as possible. Needless to say that such a program would be of tremendous interest to oil producing countries, including ours.

"By this great accomplishment," the Ambassador continued, "You have shown the world that contrary to many negative press that tend to portray the generality of Nigerians in bad light, particularly in the United States of America, Nigerians are capable of achieving greatness and do indeed excel in many fields. I hope that other Nigerians both within and outside your community will emulate you and set similar high standard of excellence..."

Dr. Emeagwali is interested in motivating African youths. In his letter to the African Herald dated April 11, 1996, he said: "It is my hope that your article(s) will help motivate African youths to pursue high-tech careers and increase the public awareness of the $2.6 billion Africa ONE Project that will bring the Internet to all African countries in 1999."

In case you don't know. Africa has more mobile phone users that Europe and America.

Why has this man remained taciturn and quiet

Emeagwali is a genius. Onitsha indigenes are the most educated breed of Igbos. From the great Zik to Chike Obi to Akpamgbo to Mbanefo to Asika and the list goes on and on..

Nice. Love this man. Hoping to also make innovations in my solar power business.
Phillip is an intelligent man that works Hard

Nice. Love this man. Hoping to also make innovations in my solar power business.
Phillip is an intelligent man that works Hard

Emegwali is a fraud!

Emeagwali is the brightest mind out of Africa- Bill Clinton

these kind threads should make fp

kettykings:
Why has this man remained taciturn and quiet

Emeagweli Phillip is a Scam. Never was a great Computer Scientist.

This has been discussed on Nairaland even as far back as 2006.
https://www.nairaland.com/534775/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-way

https://www.nairaland.com/19285/philip-emeagwali-media-hype

https://www.nairaland.com/177876/philip-emeagwali-genius-crook




To even think that most Pro-Biafrist on this forum use him as a proud example of a Biafra product is sad.

Bad belle.

Emeagwali is Africa's greatest mind-Bill Clinton.


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Ymodulus:


Emeagweli Phillip is a Scam. Never was a great Computer Scientist.

This has been discussed on Nairaland even as far back as 2006.
https://www.nairaland.com/534775/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-way

https://www.nairaland.com/19285/philip-emeagwali-media-hype

https://www.nairaland.com/177876/philip-emeagwali-genius-crook
To even think that most Pro-Biafrist on this forum use him as a proud example of a Biafra product is sad.

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chinolization:
Bad belle.
Emeagwali is Africa's greatest mind-Bill Clinton.
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Bill Clinton responded based on the Numerous lies he heard. Now what he know. See.





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.”.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2513635_s50613183557001_jpeg4549b9db9ec07218b49dd4546e457e0a


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

I am sorry to say this: Emeagwali is a fraud, pure and simple.

Stop crying. You do not have more information than Americans who called him the father of internet. Even Clinton has more information when he called him Africa's greatest mind.


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Ymodulus:

Bill Clinton responded based on the Numerous lies he heard. Now what he know. See.

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

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weyreypey:
Emegwali is a fraud!

Blindness is worst than HIV, when shall ye see oh ye blind?

weyreypey:
Emegwali is a fraud!

^ You are just another almajiri inspired semi-illiterate.
Look up the book "Inventors and Inventions" (edited by Alvin K. Benson et al)

INTROVERT:
In case you don't know. Africa has more mobile phone users that Europe and America.

because of d population

Thank you my brother.

Emeagwali remains Africa's greatest mind- Bill Clinton

imhotep:

^ You are just another almajiri inspired semi-illiterate.
Look up the book "Inventors and Inventions" (edited by Alvin K. Benson et al)

greatest scientist my b*tt .this self-glorious Biafra scammer.

Education[edit]
He travelled to the United States to study under a scholarship following completion of a correspondence course at the University of London. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977.He later moved to Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. Next magazine claims that Emeagwali claimed to have further degrees.[4][3] During this time, he worked as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming.

Court case and the denial of degree[edit]
Emeagwali studied for a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan from 1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and external examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree. Emeagwali filed a court challenge, stating 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. The court challenge was dismissed, as was an appeal to the Michigan state Court of Appeals.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali

When did Bro. Phillip obtain his Ph.D in order to be correctly referred to as Dr.?
This question and the right answer has nothing to do with tribe, i really feel pained that i invested a lot of emotion promoting this man's 'achievements' as example to youths and spent a lot of time studying his website and purpoted inventions.

We are really in need of true heros.

TheOtherview:
I am sorry to say this: Emeagwali is a fraud, pure and simple.

Bad belle no good sha.

BBC video on Emeagwali

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdSFB-TJSw
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FRAUD

http://www.rense.com/general81/dnt.htm

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame

TheOtherview:
I am sorry to say this: Emeagwali is a fraud, pure and simple.

Tell that to Bill Clinton

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-bnbeP8VA
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They thought they knew more than oyibo

imhotep:

Bill Clinton does not spread baseless rumors like so many ofe mmanu people on Nairaland.

chinolization:
They thought they knew more than oyibo

Gbam
This one no be to dey hustle for 20 naira for Idumota market. (as area boyz and omonile)

Imokay:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali

When did Bro. Phillip obtain his Ph.D in order to be correctly referred to as Dr.?
This question and the right answer has nothing to do with tribe, i really feel pained that i invested a lot of emotion promoting this man's 'achievements' as example to youths and spent a lot of time studying his website and purpoted inventions.

We are really in need of true heros.

But his achievements are on CNN
www.edition.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/specials/bhm/story/black.innovators.html

imhotep:

Bad belle no good sha.

BBC video on Emeagwali

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdSFB-TJSw
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Well let's just say I am little more exposed than you think. Furthermore, no amount of emotional convulsion on your part can negate the incontrovertible truth - that Emeagwali has repeatedly touted claims which make a mockery of serious scholarship.

That excerpt you provided earlier carries as much weight as the one provided below, which a friend of mine once published.
Once again, I call Emeagwali a fraud because I know that he was sent the bio shown in my screen shot before it was ever published.

AhmedMustapha:

But his achievements are on TIME
content.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,1963424_1963480_1963457,00.html and CNN
edition.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/specials/bhm/story/black.innovators.html

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1963424_1963480_1963457,00.html

TheOtherview:


Well let's just say I am little more exposed than you think.
That excerpt you provided earlier is

Your point is?