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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by nextstep(m): 8:39pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Arysexy: It's one thing to work hard and be recognized for brilliance (Phd or not). This charlatan should be called out for who he is. I used to be enamored of his achievements about 2 decades ago (who would not, as an Igbo speaking young Black aspiring scientist myself?), but started realizing over time that this dude was a fraud. His accolades are a result of false packaging and fraudulent representation. There is no honour in hyping up a fake and we need to expose him as such. Nwanne, we have many many brilliant minds of Igbo descent - many of them are recognized and acclaimed around the world for their genuine contributions - but this Emeagwali fellow is a disgrace to that legacy. 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Corrinthians(m): 8:40pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Silly old lie. 1 Like |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Femocher(m): 8:41pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
November 9, 2010History and CultureBy cbwclondon By Musikilu Mojeed Next Newspaper November 7, 2010 Leading American computer experts, including the man after whom the prize he won in 1989 was named, have lately pooh-poohed claims by Nigerian American-based scientist, Philip Emeagwali, that he was one of the fathers of the Internet. In 1989, Mr. Emeagwali won the $1,000 Gordon Bell Prize, which is awarded each year to recognise outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. His award was for an application of the CM-2 massively parallel computer for oil reservoir modeling. Following the feat, Mr. Emeagwali proceeded to claim, for several years, that he was a father of the Internet; that he improved upon Isaac Newton’s laws of motion; that he owned the world’s first personal website; that American computer giant, Apple, uses the microprocessor technology he pioneered in its Power Mac G4 model, among many other claims. But responding to separate enquiries by NEXT, some of the world’s leading computer experts said there was no truth in most of the claims that Mr. Emeagwali had propagated about himself over the years. Gordon Bell, 76, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing for whom the prize won by Mr. Emeagwali is named, said the entry that earned the Nigerian scientist the award had nothing to do with the Internet. “He was able to get time on the Connection Machine at the right time and run a large program of oil reservoir modeling,” Mr. Bell, a principal researcher with Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Group in San Francisco, said in an email to NEXT. “The Internet is another thing. No evidence that he had anything to do with the Internet,” he said. Mr. Bell, who provided the financial support for the annual Gordon Prize, is an influential fellow of the world’s two largest professional associations of computer experts – the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Association for Computing Machinery. But when asked whether he was aware of Mr. Emeagwali’s contribution to the evolution of the Internet, Mr. Bell said, “Not that any of my friends who worked on the Internet recall. His bio on Wikipedia is most interesting and in itself seems to be controversial,” he said, in reference to the Wikipedia article on the Nigerian scientist, which only stopped short of calling Mr. Emeagwali a liar. “Apart from the prize itself, there is no evidence that Emeagwali’s work was ever accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, nor that it had any other lasting impact on the field of high-performance-computing or the development of the Internet. Neither does he hold any recognized patents for his results,” the article said. Asked whether Mr. Emeagwali is qualified to be regarded as one of the great minds of the Information Age, Mr. Bell said, “Like many of us, in each of our minds, we may all think of ourselves as “one of the great minds of the information age. The real question is does anyone else, besides our mothers, fathers, spouses, children, relatives, and friends think of us in this way?'” Mr. Emeagwali is often celebrated in his native Nigeria and Africa as a computer genius who invented the Internet and is often listed among leading and globally respected icons such as Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, and novelist, Chinua Achebe. He was so well respected that he once got on the Nigerian stamp. Although he is not known to have made any other contribution to science or invented anything since he won the Gordon Prize 20 years ago, Mr. Emeagwali travels around the world, giving speeches and portraying himself as one of the greatest scientists in the world. Speaking during a visit to Switzerland in April 2009, Mr. Emeagwali said he was the first to program an hypercube “to solve a grand challenge defined as the 20 gold-ring problems in computing. That discovery, in part, inspired the reinvention of supercomputers as an Internet.” He claimed that by his effort, he was able to set three world records and improve on Newton’s Second Law of Motion. But of late, Americans and Nigerians alike have raised questions about the claims. Alan Karp, a principal scientist with Hewlett – Packard Laboratories, and one of the judges who selected the Nigerian scientist for the Gordon Bell prize in 1989, said Mr. Emeagwali’s claims were false and exaggerated. In response to NEXT’s inquiries, Mr. Karp wrote, “To the best of my knowledge, the work he submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize had no influence on the Internet. The material he submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize did not address adjustments to Newton’s Laws. “Many people programmed the Connection Machines, both the CM-1 and the CM-2 that Mr. Emeagwali programmed. To claim that sending emails programmed is misleading. The work Mr. Emeagwali submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize did not set a world record. In fact, another team produced better performance and better price performance that same year and was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize for performance. “There were other hypercube machines in use before the CM-2, and others had programmed them to solve important problems. Today, a supercomputer is not a union of supercomputers communicating as an Internet. Individual supercomputers with proprietary internal networks do sometimes coordinate over the Internet, but the work Mr. Emeagwali submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize did not do this,” Mr. Karp said. Many disputed claims Mr. Karp also debunked another oft-repeated claim by Mr. Emeagwali that the prize he won was the Nobel Prize of computing. We also sent a list of Mr. Emeagwali’s numerous claims, gleaned from his speeches, interviews, and articles, to Jack Dongarra, another widely respected American computer scientist, and a judge on the panel that awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in 1990. But Mr. Dongarra, a professor at the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, simply carpeted the claims in a two-sentence response. “This was over 22 years ago and I really don’t remember,” he said. “I would disagree with much of what you have written.” Because his claims had bounced around for long without any major challenge, many people around the world believe them as true, and Mr. Emeagwali enjoyed celebrity status. And from time to time, he adds new layers to what many scientists now believe to be a pack of lies. On his poorly designed website, Mr. Emeagwali claims he has been ranked number one in computing in the past five years. He looks forward to being named again in December this year, although he is not known to have done or be doing any work on the subject since the 1989 prize. He also claimed, in a June 2007 interview with BusinessDay, that the Nigerian government was owing him for the investigation he conducted into the country’s diminishing resources. Yet, the last time he visited Nigeria was over 20 years ago. He said his technology is being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of global warming. At a point, he claimed he was working on a fibre optic cable for Africa that will make calls to the continent not to be routed through Europe. NEXT sent Mr. Emeagwali a 14-question inquiry on his claims. But his response did not address any of the questions. “The most important questions, such as his twelve years of postgraduate education, Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion, discoveries and inventions, 41 patents [that he never claimed, he claimed 41 “patent claims”] and father of the Internet,” said Donita Brown, who responded on his behalf. “For example, he will explain that “the internet” is to “an internet” what the supercomputer is to a computer. That is, both are equivalent technologies,” Ms. Brown added. Mr. Emeagwali said he would provide details in two weeks. Ms. Brown, who is Mr. Emeagwali’s wife, has double identities as well. She is widely known as Dale Emeagwali. But in correspondences and on her husband’s website, she is identified as Donita Brown. For two weeks, NEXT had consistently made efforts to talk to Mr. Emeagwali on the telephone. But each time, a telephone operator would say he was not available. The four telephone lines on his website are usually diverted to the same operator. On his Facebook page, Mr. Emeagwali listed +4402070787400 as his mobile line. But our checks indicated that it was a landline in the United Kingdom, which was again diverted to the same operator in Washington. Mr. Emeagwali was of recent a subject of debate on Nigerian Internet discussion groups and the preponderance of opinion was that his claims were fraudulent. “The debate’ on Emeagwali’s intellectual fraud has long been settled in the Nigerian cyberspace,” said one Moses Ochonu. “Only the most fanatical Nigerian and African American sentimental (as opposed to a rational) investors in black scientific heroism still take the fool seriously,” Mr. Ochonu said. In his own contribution to the debate, Ola Kassim, a former leader of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, said, “I have always stayed away from the Emeagwali controversy simply because I do not enjoy watching Nigerians/Africans pull each other down. “However, there are some instances when we must speak up, or else the work of our true heroes – the genuine achievers become rubbished by association when the falsehoods perpetrated by some of us are finally discovered,” he said. Self promotion Mr. Emeagwali’s Internet self-promotion has earned him a lot of attention. He branded himself so well that he became subjects of CNN, BBC, and TIME magazine articles and was able to get on United Nation’s list of former refugees who have achieved special status within a community due to their achievements. He is also widely celebrated in Nigeria and America, where he is a consistent feature of the Black History Month. In February 2005, Ebony magazine ran a Toyota advertisement describing Mr. Emeagwali as one of the founders of the Internet and as having a PhD; whereas, he never earned a doctorate because the University of Michigan did not find his dissertation good enough. Responding to a NEXT inquiry regarding why it misrepresented Mr. Emeagwali to the world, Toyota simply dissociated itself from the Nigerian scientist. “Toyota has no connection to Mr. Emeagwali and is not responsible for his credentials. In addition, Toyota had no involvement with a Gordon Bell Prize.'” said Mike Michels, the company’s vice president, communications. Mr. Emeagwali was also once described by former President Bill Clinton as one of the great minds of the information age. The U.S State Department would not comment on why Mr. Clinton described the Nigerian scientist in that way. It simply directed inquiries to the former president himself. Mr. Clinton’s office is yet to respond to NEXT’s questions as at the time of this report 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by mfm04622: 8:43pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Why are you still celebrating this fraud? He has been exposed to be a fraud. Please stop giving him unearned advert. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by kernel001: 8:47pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
FisifunKododada: Please stop your Sahara Reporter court, show us any international media that referred to him as fraud, just one. So... Because he had a legal battle in a bit to obtain Doctorate degree, he's now fraud? 2 Likes |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by SarakiBukola: 8:47pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
oyb: Dont mind Seun et al. By now, any one with a single digit IQ and literate, with a little interest in Science would have heard about this fraud. I am amused at the r3tards hyperventilating over something that's been debunked over and over. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Nobody: 8:50pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
I only heaer about this guy in Nigeria Who invented the internet? [url][/url]https://www.google.co.uk/amp/amp.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by donb06: 8:50pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Kewtt:Google is ur friend |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by IbnAbdullah1(m): 8:51pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
ikennaf1: This guy is a fraud. I would rather celebrate Evans than this fraud who terribly exposed by Sahara reporters. You think some of us don't do a back ground check on certain claims. I will post a link that thoroughly exposed this cheat. II am proud of folks like Prof Bath Nanji and the likes but not this fraudster. Father of internet ko, mother of internet ni. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Odingo1: 8:51pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
nextstep: Phillip Emeagwali is great man, your hate wont bring him down, he have achieve something,go and achieve your own instead of hating. 1 Like |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Dareal90s(m): 8:53pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Arysexy:Evans comes to mind. |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TundeBricklayer: 8:54pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
kernel001:me > Black Inventors > Dr. Philip Emeagwali Dr. Philip Emeagwali Inventor of the World's Fastest Computer Dr. Philip Emeagwali Dr. Philip Emeagwali, who has been called the "Bill Gates of Africa," was born in Nigeria in 1954. Like many African schoolchildren, he dropped out of school at age 14 because his father could not continue paying Emeagwali's school fees. However, his father continued teaching him at home, and everyday Emeagwali performed mental exercises such as solving 100 math problems in one hour. His father taught him until Philip "knew more than he did." Growing up in a country torn by civil war, Emeagwali lived in a building crumbled by rocket shells. He believed his intellect was a way out of the line of fire. So he studied hard and eventually received a scholarship to Oregon State University when he was 17 where he obtained a BS in mathematics. He also earned three other degrees – a Ph.D. in Scientific computing from the University of Michigan and two Masters degrees from George Washington University. The noted black inventor received acclaim based, at least in part, on his study of nature, specifically bees. Emeagwali saw an inherent efficiency in the way bees construct and work with honeycomb and determined computers that emulate this process could be the most efficient and powerful. In 1989, emulating the bees' honeycomb construction, Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second. Dr. Philip Emeagwali's resume is loaded with many other such feats, including ways of making oil fields more productive – which has resulted in the United States saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year. As one of the most famous African-American inventors of the 20th century, Dr. Emeagwali also has won the Gordon Bell Prize – the Nobel Prize for computation. His computers are currently being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of future global warming. For more information on Dr. Philip Emeagwali, refer to: Dr. Philip Emeagwali, "Father of the Internet" Emeagwali.com – Famous African American Inventor 2 Likes
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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by totit: 8:54pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Another one.. Concerned, London UK Busted !!!! 3 Likes |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by traihit: 9:00pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
SMH... See how busy Africans are, helping the white man to discredit their fellow African because he doesn't belong to their tribe. Whether Emegweali was a fraud is not even the question. The question is, do Africans who have made great contributions in the world of scientific discovery given recognition that we give to Faraday, Edison and so on? Not even close. If you have biological brother who is called a fraud, will you come out to call him a fraud where others are? Let's emancipate ourselves fellow Africans. 1 Like |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TundeBricklayer: 9:02pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Encyclopedia not their useless links 2 Likes
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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by totit: 9:02pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Busted !!!! Innovators who break barriers |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by IbnAbdullah1(m): 9:04pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
TundeBricklayer: Oga,You think reputable media do more investigative than Sahara reporters and premium times? |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Nobody: 9:04pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
karllemah44:Wiki pages are edited/modified by wikipedians, probably his page hasn't been. I Better do that rn. kindly mail for further explanation. |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Omofunaab2: 9:04pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
What's this scammer doing on frontpage ? 2 Likes |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TundeBricklayer: 9:06pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
IbnAbdullah1:
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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by totit: 9:06pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Busted |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by naptu2: 9:07pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
The recognised fathers of the Internet are Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, while Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. This thread is in violation of rule 8. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by IbnAbdullah1(m): 9:12pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Odingo1: Why do our Igbo compatriots like celebrating fraudsters? This guy is a fraud. I don't usually do this. I used to be a one time admirer of this guy not until I read an exposé by Sahara reporters that's when I knew Nigerians and even the world will be sold with just one lie. This was the same kind of like George Bush and Tony Blair used in invading Iraq. 2 Likes |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Odingo1: 9:12pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
naptu2: They said father of modern day internet not father of internet, Afonja ronu 2 Likes
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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by naptu2: 9:13pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Odingo1: What makes him the father of the modern day Internet? The person that can lay claim to that title is Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web. 3 Likes |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by IbnAbdullah1(m): 9:15pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
[quote author=TundeBricklayer post=70937183][/quote] Truth exposed. read the link below with an unbiased mind you will see that I am not one of those guys who suffers from the 'pull-him-down syndrome. https://www.google.com/url?q=http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjv7cC-1qTdAhXPL1AKHU3vADIQFjAAegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw3rRugVfSddmSFrWqNxoHza |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Odingo1: 9:16pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
naptu2:He developed the fastest modern super computer, there was Internet before he develop that 1 Like |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by totit: 9:19pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
An inventor without patent right 2 Likes |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Odingo1: 9:19pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
IbnAbdullah1: He is not a fraud, sahara reporters is a local champion, an Afonja media that peddle lies and hate. CNN;BBC and Encyclopedia cant be wrong. Former President of America Bill Clinton recognize him and other world leaders, you guys should stop hating. 1 Like |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TundeBricklayer: 9:20pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Igbos are greatest in African Another great minds from Igbo tribe Cyprian Emeka Uzoh holder of 160 patents across the world, another great Igbo Ndubisi Ekekwe He is the founder of First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics – West Africa’s leading embedded systems company. His working experience includes Analog Devices Corp where he co-designed a generation accelerometer for the iPhone and created the company’s first wafer level chip scale package for inertial sensor. He is a player in the U.S. semiconductor industry where he develops innovative microchip and invented a microcontroller for medical robots 2 Likes
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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by naptu2: 9:20pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
Odingo1: Then he is not the father of the internet (which goes back to my original point). How does developing "the fastest modern supercomputer" make him the father of the internet?? |
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TimeManager(m): 9:21pm On Sep 05, 2018 |
This recycled myth had been busted years back na.. kiss the truth! 2 Likes |
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