Change2015:


He is a fraud because he has attempted and succeeded in obtaining benefits by false pretences. His claim to a PhD is fraudulent, his bell prize was relatively minor and was obtained as part of a group, as far as the patent database knows, he has no patent applications awaiting approval. How else do you define fraud, or does tribe matter in that discussion? That he has managed to get away with his chicanery for so long does not make him any less of a fraud.


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his prize was individual, although the first awardees was the highest performers, but they are a group. emeagwali singlehandedly had his own calculations. that was why he was given his own award.

SonOfEl:


his prize was individual, although the first awardees was the highest performers, but they are a group. emeagwali singlehandedly had his own calculations. that was why he was given his own award.

Please share link details from the award site.

#change

Change2015:

Please share link details from the award site.
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okay, but you can also get it through the references in Wikipedia.

SonOfEl:


his prize was individual, although the first awardees was the highest performers, but they are a group. emeagwali singlehandedly had his own calculations. that was why he was given his own award.

From his wiki page

Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer. The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir modelling. He won in the "price/performance" category, with a performance figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M. The winner in the "performance" category, Mobil Research and Thinking Machines, used the CM-2 for seismic data processing and achieved the higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges decided on one award per entry.[6][7] His method involved each microprocessor communicating with six neighbours.[3]

Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling.[8]

However a $1000 prize in computing shows that the work is not particularly significant outside of certain applications. He dares not claim a doctorate there too. And there is zero mention of any patents or patent applications, and to be blunt if bill Clinton had not mentioned him would we have ever cared? There are many Nigerians, honest and hard working, talented, why must we hold on to this fraud who has very little to offer.

Change2015:


From his wiki page

Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer. The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir modelling. He won in the "price/performance" category, with a performance figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M. The winner in the "performance" category, Mobil Research and Thinking Machines, used the CM-2 for seismic data processing and achieved the higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges decided on one award per entry.[6][7] His method involved each microprocessor communicating with six neighbours.[3]

Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling.[8]

However a $1000 prize in computing shows that the work is not particularly significant outside of certain applications. He dares not claim a doctorate there too. And there is zero mention of any patents or patent applications, and to be blunt if bill Clinton had not mentioned him would we have ever cared? There are many Nigerians, honest and hard working, talented, why must we hold on to this fraud who has very little to offer.

whatever his claims are, his early achievement in supercomputing secured his place in the science of supercomputing. it is only in Nigeria that his frivolities are being overemphasized. go through foreign webs and see him cemented in history, not as a doctor or professor, but as the first black computer genius.

also because the prize was #1000 at the time does not downplay the importance of his work. some scientists who have made solid achievements have not even being rewarded financially. emeagwali is boastful and proud, and that dented his personality appeal, but not his early achievement in supercomputing.

SonOfEl:


whatever his claims are, his early achievement in supercomputing secured his place in the science of supercomputing. it is only in Nigeria that his frivolities are being overemphasized. go through foreign webs and see him cemented in history, not as a doctor or professor, but as the first black computer genius.

It secured nothing. What has he achieved since that prize? Who has he worked for, what were his achievements? Even Ben Bruce pays beauty Queens more than one thousand dollars! Do you actually understand what genius means? The man has been coasting on faded achievement and could not do even a good PhD thesis so he shouted racism. Genius implies consistency of high intellectual output. Perhaps Goodluck really deserves that Nobel peace prize people have been talking about.

#change

Change2015:


It secured nothing. What has he achieved since that prize? Who has he worked for, what were his achievements? Even Ben Bruce pays beauty Queens more than one thousand dollars! Do you actually understand what genius means? The man has been coasting on faded achievement and could not do even a good PhD thesis so he shouted racism. Genius implies consistency of high intellectual output. Perhaps Goodluck really deserves that Nobel peace prize people have been talking about.

#change

Stupid, jealous and smelly yoruba cowards. Always rushing to undermine people's progress. You leeches will meet your waterloo soon.

ClockworkOrange:



Stupid, jealous and smelly yoruba cowards. Always rushing to undermine people's progress. You leeches will meet your waterloo soon.

Please show your true colours. I am neither hausa, yoruba or igbo! #dyenow ish

Change2015:


Please show your true colours. I am neither hausa, yoruba or igbo! #dyenow ish

You are a Yoruba. You have the spirit in you. Fool. Go and suffocate in your hate.

ClockworkOrange:


You are a Yoruba. You have the spirit in you. Fool. Go and suffocate in your hate.

Whatever you are smoking... It's too early. People like you that feast on tribal antagonism will never understand people like me. I step aside from that type of infantile behaviour, and when you grow up you may understand why.

#change

Change2015:


It secured nothing. What has he achieved since that prize? Who has he worked for, what were his achievements? Even Ben Bruce pays beauty Queens more than one thousand dollars! Do you actually understand what genius means? The man has been coasting on faded achievement and could not do even a good PhD thesis so he shouted racism. Genius implies consistency of high intellectual output. Perhaps Goodluck really deserves that Nobel peace prize people have been talking about.

#change

bill gates co-invented Microsoft at a larger percentage, but he is since done with inventing. all he is reaping are the dividend , is he not a genius? emeagwali got his own fame in supercomputing, and since then. he has been reaping the dividends in public speaking. am trying not be his advocate but his contribution in supercomputing should be acknowledged. yes his ego is annoying and misleading, but his contribution to supercomputing is worthy of note.

SonOfEl:


bill gates co-invented Microsoft at a larger percentage, but he is since done with inventing. all he is reaping are the dividend , is he not a genius? emeagwali got his own fame in supercomputing, and since then. he has been reaping the dividends in public speaking. am trying not be his advocate but his contribution in supercomputing should be acknowledged. yes his ego is annoying and misleading, but his contribution to supercomputing is worthy of note.

Please do your homework first. Microsoft was formed not invented. The basis of the 'windows' operating system was based on the intellectual property of another that Microsoft was able buy out. And windows was neither original nor the best operating system on offer. Bill Gates has however shown more endurance and capacity in developing the Office software suite to accompany the operating system. What exactly have you heard from emeagwali after his one thousand dollar prize? His achievement was actually that he achieved the best price/performance ratio, but even that year on raw computing performance another team bested him. Was his achievement worth writing a book about?

Change2015:


Please do your homework first. Microsoft was formed not invented. The basis of the 'windows' operating system was based on the intellectual property of another that Microsoft was able buy out. And windows was neither original nor the best operating system on offer. Bill Gates has however shown more endurance and capacity in developing the Office software suite to accompany the operating system. What exactly have you heard from emeagwali after his one thousand dollar prize? His achievement was actually that he achieved the best price/performance ratio, but even that year on raw computing performance another team bested him. Was his achievement worth writing a book about?

you are probably right that gates showed more endurance in further developing Microsoft, that is because there was funding for his work.
emeagwali did not work with a team, he worked alone, that was why he was honoured. a team came first, while emeagwali came second. but because he worked as an individual, not with a team (which is ingenius) he was awarded for it.
do us a favour and check any foreign report on emeagwali, you will appreciate what emeagwali achieved. in all fairness, he is the first black computer genius. he didn't have to be s Dr or prof to achieve that.

Change2015:


He is a fraud because he has attempted and succeeded in obtaining benefits by false pretences. His claim to a PhD is fraudulent, his bell prize was relatively minor and was obtained as part of a group, as far as the patent database knows, he has no patent applications awaiting approval. How else do you define fraud, or does tribe matter in that discussion? That he has managed to get away with his chicanery for so long does not make him any less of a fraud.


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I wonder if his fraudulent face has been taken of our stamps, he should be prosecuted in fact for his fraudulent and criminal ways.

I agree with you

Abagworo:
I sense tribalism in this thread.Hi haters.
I'm outta here.

fulanimafia:


I wonder if his fraudulent face has been taken of our stamps, he should be prosecuted in fact for his fraudulent and criminal ways.

he is not a fraud sir...it is only in some part of this country that he is considered a fraud. in western societies, he isn't. he is the first black computer genius. he should not however, have accorded himself doctor and professor....he is proud.

SonOfEl:


you are probably right that gates showed more endurance in further developing Microsoft, that is because there was funding for his work.
emeagwali did not work with a team, he worked alone, that was why he was honoured. a team came first, while emeagwali came second. but because he worked as an individual, not with a team (which is ingenius) he was awarded for it.
do us a favour and check any foreign report on emeagwali, you will appreciate what emeagwali achieved. in all fairness, he is the first black computer genius. he didn't have to be s Dr or prof to achieve that.

I have read enough to know there is nothing to him but lies and deception. If a man was constantly reminding you that he won a prize in 1990, won't you be pushed to enquire what he has done with his life since? I have enough self-worth and pride not to insist on making a fraud a hero. Just because he's black or igbo? There are always more worthy people around so let this crook be.

SonOfEl:


he is not a fraud sir...it is only in some part of this country that he is considered a fraud. in western societies, he isn't. he is the first black computer genius. he should not however, have accorded himself doctor and professor....he is proud.

Giving yourself a title you have not earned is fraudulent, not a sign of pride,, quite the opposite. It is a sign of low self esteem, and an attempt to hide feelings of inadequacy. Til tomorrow bill Gates is still Mr. Gates, even the top performers on youtube are making a few million dollars a year, but we think a man who won a thousand dollars two decades ago is a "genius". Kim Kardashian must find that so very funny. How much do you think her security guard earns a month? Genius level...

Threads like this are allowed to stay by Seun, while a genuine thread with a live You tube evidence showing the Hausa-Fulani impunity and the deafening silence of their southern side kicks are locked and banned with reckless abandone.

Seun must realize that the truth cannot be hidden, it's a moving train that crushes everything on its way.

sahara reporters n Yoruba based lies, I'm not surprised.

Change2015:


I have read enough to know there is nothing to him but lies and deception. If a man was constantly reminding you that he won a prize in 1990, won't you be pushed to enquire what he has done with his life since? I have enough self-worth and pride not to insist on making a fraud a hero. Just because he's black or igbo? There are always more worthy people around so let this crook be.

I understand your position, but that remains your humble opinion. if emeagwali was fraudulent,in an advanced country like USA, he would be cooling off in a jail by now or be prosecuted. he won't even be called for public speaking anymore, or be featured in the black achievers lists in the western world.

Change2015:


Giving yourself a title you have not earned is fraudulent, not a sign of pride,, quite the opposite. It is a sign of low self esteem, and an attempt to hide feelings of inadequacy. Til tomorrow bill Gates is still Mr. Gates, even the top performers on youtube are making a few million dollars a year, but we think a man who won a thousand dollars two decades ago is a "genius". Kim Kardashian must find that so very funny. How much do you think her security guard earns a month? Genius level...

maybe the western societies are so dumb in not having him jailed or prosecuted. maybe you can be the first in petitioning that. dude his problem is an ego problem, not a fraud problem.

SonOfEl:


maybe the western societies are so dumb in not having him jailed or prosecuted. maybe you can be the first in petitioning that. dude his problem is an ego problem, not a fraud problem.

It is better to ignore haters. The man could be whatever he is but since he has been successful, it is in our interest to hype him.

SonOfEl:


maybe the western societies are so dumb in not having him jailed or prosecuted. maybe you can be the first in petitioning that. dude his problem is an ego problem, not a fraud problem.

Recently in our own country a man has been unveiled as pretending to be a doctor for 9 years, and securing a job on that basis. Do we call it an ego problem, and why has he been asked to refund all salaries paid to him on the basis of his fake qualifications? Emeagwali did the same to a previous government pretending to be something he was not and charging fees on that basis. That is the definition of fraud, just in case you are still confused about that.

Abagworo:


It is better to ignore haters. The man could be whatever he is but since he has been successful, it is in our interest to hype him.

Really?

bayooooooo:

Really?

Yes. Have you heard of David Beckam?

Abagworo:


Yes. Have you heard of David Beckam?

Yes, I know David Beckham is [b]perhaps[/b]one of the most overrated players in the world. But David Beckham isn't a fraud, David Beckham didn't claim he invented football.

A lot has been written about Philips that an objective mind would see him for what he is, a fraud, a liar and a first grade idiot. What is there to hype in a fraud?

Change2015:


Recently in our own country a man has been unveiled as pretending to be a doctor for 9 years, and securing a job on that basis. Do we call it an ego problem, and why has he been asked to refund all salaries paid to him on the basis of his fake qualifications? Emeagwali did the same to a previous government pretending to be something he was not and charging fees on that basis. That is the definition of fraud, just in case you are still confused about that.

sources pls.....

SonOfEl:


sources pls.....

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/fake-doctor-led-nma-police/

Fake doctor led NMA –Police
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By Our Reporter on July 8, 2015 COVER, National

• Suspect: Blame system not me

From MOLLY KILETE, Abuja

A former chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has been exposed by the police as a fake doctor. He operated under the name, Dr. George Daniel. His real name is Martins Ugwu Okpe

Parading the suspect before newsmen yesterday at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, the police said the 45-year-old man who has worked as a medical doctor with the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja since 2006, rose to Grade Level 12 status, was after all, an impostor and fake.

Okpe was attached to the Research and Planning Department of the ministry.

Interestingly, the suspect, who is a secondary school certificate holder, became the NMA chairman, Federal Ministry of Health branch, where he was in charge of the welfare of qualified medical doctors.

He was among the medical volunteers trained by the ministry in conjunction with the African Union Support to Ebola out-break in West Africa(ASEOWA), Mission in Liberia, but declined to proceed for the trip after collecting all the allowances from both the ministry and the AU.

He also secured admission for professional training at the Centre for Disease Control, tagged: “Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training (NFELTP), which is a post-graduate programme affiliated to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. However, his academic performance casts doubts on his competence as a medical doctor.

Okpe refused to accept blame for his crime. He heaped the blame on the porous system for not detecting his true status over the years.

Ironically, the “doctor” defended his action, saying he was in the system to correct the inherent errors and expose the lapses.

Police had revealed that the suspect stole the certificate of his medical doctor friend, one George Davidson Daniel, with which he gained employment with the ministry as a doctor and bears the name on the certificate.

The police said he would be charged with impersonation.

Force Deputy spokesman, Abayomi Shogunle, said the fake doctor was exposed following a petition to the Inspector-General of Police on March 10 this year by Festus Keyamo chambers on behalf of Martins Ugwu Okpe, an impostor that assumed the identity of Dr. George Davidson Daniel.

He said the petition was transferred to the police analytical tracking and inception centre for investigation.

According to him, the Federal Civil Service Commission had also written a petition against the suspect, dated May, 2015, when he was found to be engaging in unprofessional conduct and unwholesome behaviour of fomenting trouble, blackmailing and misleading health workers among other crimes.

Police said his trouble started after investigation carried out on him by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) found him to be fake and traced the records of Dr. Daniel, who is in a residency programme in Jos, to the Ahmadu Bello University, Faculty of Medicine, that contained a passport size photograph bearing no resemblance with the suspect.

Further police investigation showed that the suspect is a childhood friend of the doctor. He stole the certificate when he was his friend’s best man.

But Okpe, who said he had wanted to become a soldier, but failed to gain admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy(NDA), said he actually stole the certificate when his friend visited him at his home in Karu, Abuja, noting that he regretted what he did.

From the main article ;

Here is why the Gordon Bell Prize, Emeagwali’s only legitimate achievement, is much less than what he has portrayed it as:

• The cash award for the prize is a mere $1000. Often, the amount of an award is a good guide to its prestige and significance in the field.
• Consider the fact that the most prestigious prize in the field of computing (and yet it cannot even be called the Nobel of Computing without insulting the real Nobel) is the Turing Prize, which carries a cash prize of $100,000.
• The Gordon Bell is awarded in the narrow subfield of supercomputing, thereby further thinning the applicant pool and reducing the intensity of the competition.
• The prize is further subdivided into several categories. Emeagwali won in one of those categories, the price/performance category. The more prestigious overall Peak Performance category was won by the entry submitted by a team from Mobil and TMC.
• It is interesting that apart from Emeagwali no other winner(s) of the Gordon Bell annual prize makes noise about winning it or claims to have won “the Nobel Prize of Computing.” They usually go on to do bigger and better research in the field, the Gordon Bell being just a launch pad for future significant work. The public does not even know the other winners because it is a minor prize even in the field of computing.
• Finally, and most importantly, Philip Emeagwali only won the prize in the price/performance category by default. His calculation of 3.1 Gflops was the second fastest speed. The fastest speed belonged to the Mobil/TMC team’s entry, whose calculation, according to the official record of the IEEE, which administers the prize (IEEE Software, May 1990, p. 101), bested Emeagwali’s speed. The speed of the Mobil/TMC Team’s solution to the seismic data processing problem was almost twice that of Emeagwali’s at almost 6Gflops. Similarly, and of more relevance for our purpose here, the Mobil/TMC team’s entry achieved the best speed/cost ratio (price-performance) at 500 Mflops per $1 Million, beating out Emeagwali’s entry, whose speed/cost ration was less than 400 Mflops per $1 Million. In fact the prize in the price/performance category was actually awarded to the Mobil/TMC initially. However, because the Mobil TMC team won also won in the overall Peak Performance category and the IEEE’s prize rule does not allow more than one prize per entry, the Mobil/TMC team forfeited their prize in the price/performance category, sticking with the prize for overall Peak Performance, a more significant category. As a result, Emeagwali’s entry, the second placed entry with the second highest speed/cost ratio, was automatically bumped to first place.

For all these reasons, it is the height of self-promotion and delusional exaggeration for Mr. Emeagwali to claim that he won the Nobel Prize of Computing or that the Gordon Bell is regarded as the Nobel of Computing. Nobody except Mr. Emeagwali regards the prize as such.

It is noteworthy that both Emeagwali and the Mobile/TMC Team relied on the CM-2 Machine (the Connection Machine) for their calculations, the same machine that Emeagwali falsely claims to have invented!

A final point to note here is that the research for which he won the Gordon Bell Prize (by default) has application and relevance only in the narrow area of oil flow reservoir modeling and oil prospecting. His entry for the competition utilized and optimized the capacity of parallel computing, that is, relied on an already existing Internet. Emeagwali’s own website states that he “accessed the supercomputers over the Internet from local workstations.” Neither the research nor the prize had anything to do with the Internet. The Internet was already invented and fairly perfected by then; otherwise he would not be, in his own words, “accessing the supercomputers over the Internet.” This clarification is necessary and important because some of Emeagwali’s supporters and victims tend to assume wrongly that his purported fatherhood of the internet derives from the research for which he won the Gordon Bell Prize. All these facts can be easily accessed here: http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/emeag.html

Change2015:


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/fake-doctor-led-nma-police/

Fake doctor led NMA –Police
0
By Our Reporter on July 8, 2015 COVER, National

• Suspect: Blame system not me

From MOLLY KILETE, Abuja

A former chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has been exposed by the police as a fake doctor. He operated under the name, Dr. George Daniel. His real name is Martins Ugwu Okpe

Parading the suspect before newsmen yesterday at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, the police said the 45-year-old man who has worked as a medical doctor with the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja since 2006, rose to Grade Level 12 status, was after all, an impostor and fake.

Okpe was attached to the Research and Planning Department of the ministry.

Interestingly, the suspect, who is a secondary school certificate holder, became the NMA chairman, Federal Ministry of Health branch, where he was in charge of the welfare of qualified medical doctors.

He was among the medical volunteers trained by the ministry in conjunction with the African Union Support to Ebola out-break in West Africa(ASEOWA), Mission in Liberia, but declined to proceed for the trip after collecting all the allowances from both the ministry and the AU.

He also secured admission for professional training at the Centre for Disease Control, tagged: “Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training (NFELTP), which is a post-graduate programme affiliated to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. However, his academic performance casts doubts on his competence as a medical doctor.

Okpe refused to accept blame for his crime. He heaped the blame on the porous system for not detecting his true status over the years.

Ironically, the “doctor” defended his action, saying he was in the system to correct the inherent errors and expose the lapses.

Police had revealed that the suspect stole the certificate of his medical doctor friend, one George Davidson Daniel, with which he gained employment with the ministry as a doctor and bears the name on the certificate.

The police said he would be charged with impersonation.

Force Deputy spokesman, Abayomi Shogunle, said the fake doctor was exposed following a petition to the Inspector-General of Police on March 10 this year by Festus Keyamo chambers on behalf of Martins Ugwu Okpe, an impostor that assumed the identity of Dr. George Davidson Daniel.

He said the petition was transferred to the police analytical tracking and inception centre for investigation.

According to him, the Federal Civil Service Commission had also written a petition against the suspect, dated May, 2015, when he was found to be engaging in unprofessional conduct and unwholesome behaviour of fomenting trouble, blackmailing and misleading health workers among other crimes.

Police said his trouble started after investigation carried out on him by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) found him to be fake and traced the records of Dr. Daniel, who is in a residency programme in Jos, to the Ahmadu Bello University, Faculty of Medicine, that contained a passport size photograph bearing no resemblance with the suspect.

Further police investigation showed that the suspect is a childhood friend of the doctor. He stole the certificate when he was his friend’s best man.

But Okpe, who said he had wanted to become a soldier, but failed to gain admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy(NDA), said he actually stole the certificate when his friend visited him at his home in Karu, Abuja, noting that he regretted what he did.

I know this story, I actually meant emeagwali's own.