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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:
See as hateful and envious afonja are hyperventilating on this thread like accident spirits trying all their best to rubbish this Great Scientist of our time bc he is Igbo. Spits on their chamfered coneheads

One even said he didn't complete his PhD, does that stop him from his research that earned him accolades?

Again I spit on their ewedufied faces

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.

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Corrinthians(m): 8:40pm On Sep 05, 2018
Silly old lie. cheesy

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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

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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.

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by kernel001: 8:47pm On Sep 05, 2018
FisifunKododada:
This man was exposed as a fraud. Stop promoting frauds on Nairaland


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?

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by SarakiBukola: 8:47pm On Sep 05, 2018
oyb:
Seun osewa, this is what you an intellectual have allowed nl to become for clicks. Shame.

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.

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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:
Seems we only have illiterate mods on this forum

Soyinka we know, Achebe we know, Olubumo we know, Chike Obi we also know... Who is emegwali?
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:



https://leadership.ng/2018/09/02/philip-emeagwali-father-of-modern-day-internet/amp/

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.

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Odingo1: 8:51pm On Sep 05, 2018
nextstep:


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.

Phillip Emeagwali is great man, your hate wont bring him down, he have achieve something,go and achieve your own instead of hating.

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Dareal90s(m): 8:53pm On Sep 05, 2018
Arysexy:


Afonja we are not talking about Madam Kemi the NYSC fraudster here
Evans comes to mind. angry
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TundeBricklayer: 8:54pm On Sep 05, 2018
kernel001:



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?
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

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by totit: 8:54pm On Sep 05, 2018
grin grin grin

Another one.. cheesy

Concerned, London UK
Posted by Anonymous at September 16, 2006 12:35 AM
If emeagwali is fake. Are all these fake?

Inventing against the odds
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/10/sprj.bhm.innovators/index.html

Innovators who break barriers
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/specials/bhm/story/black.innovators.html
Posted by Anonymous at September 16, 2006 12:46 AM
Inventing against the odds
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/10/
sprj.bhm.innovators/index.html

Innovators who break barriers
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/
interactive/specials/bhm/story/
black.innovators.html
Posted by Anonymous at September 16, 2006 12:47 AM
Anonymous:

I believe Bill Clinton's speech writer, like the Nigerian government and New African Magazine were all fooled by the fraudulent information on Mr. emeagwali's website. The video is however authentic. I wrote to New African Magazine a while ago, requesting for the source of their information on philip emeagwali. They are yet to reply. I made an attempt to contact Mr. emeagwali himself, putting questions about the authenticity of information on his website before him, but was turned down.

Why don't you try tracking down Bill Clinton's speech writer and sending him/her an email requesting for the source of his/her information on Mr. emeagwali? This could help clear a lot of your doubts.

As for the CNN links you quoted above, they appear to have relied on information presented by Mr. emeagwali himself. Why don't you send emails to their authors and request where they got information on emeagwali?

All information about emeagwali as a great scientist or an inventor originate from his website. And I believe that in the article above as well as this, I have clearly shown that I have been unable to verify the claims he makes. And I am yet to come across ANYONE who has been able to verify them.

A few months back, I was contacted by the Wikipedia author on supercomputing (a researcher in Australia). He was surprised about emeagwali being called the "father of the internet" and a significant contributor to the field of "supercomputing." In his opinion, emeagwali was virtually unknown in these fields. He was trying to verify from independent sources what emeagwali's contributions have been. In the long run, he too was unable to verify any of the so-called claims on emeagwali's website.
Posted by Chippla Vandu at September 16, 2006 1:23 AM
yeah man and all the other black people know why yall are putting up this fus its because he's black and yall still think that all blacks are stupid if yall still think that yall are stupid because you and any other white person has another thing coming for you cause i have friends and we are on the rise blacks are getting smarter and smarter every day yall havent seen nothing yet/ and i know i didnt use any end marks its because me and all of the other blacks are going to get you bye surprise dont be scared we dont kill im saying we are the future that tomorrow holds not you
Posted by Anonymous at September 24, 2006 10:39 PM
Dear Anonymous. Whilst not wanting to insult you, have you asked yourself the valid question that the blog creator is himself black? And it is this backward mentality that doesn't seem to allow black people progress in the first place by making statements like this.

I have followed the fake Doctors achievements quite extensively. And like the researchers have made my own research and gained my own knowledge which shows beyond any reasonable doubt that the guys is a 419 scientist and can not be called that.

Like other contributors have stated, there are several unrecognised people doing great feats and they do not neccessarily have to create websits of themselves and what they have / have not achieved. The worst thing is that the gentleman has not achieved anything.

All the man has achieved so far is showing to the world that Nigerians can achieve anything by doing 419 i.e. lie there way to the top and make claims upon claims. You can apply for a job and saw that you are a pilot and be given the job without anyone checking your credentials; only to end up crashing the plane and everyone finding out that you were a taxi driver who has some knowledge of aircraft engines.

All this does is tarnish the image of Nigerians abroad. This fraud appears on our national stamps; has his named emblazzed on a popular Nigerian Magazine, which ends up pointing to the world that Nigerians are illiterate i.e. tell them that you have developed a simple program in SQL or VBBASIC or PERL and the ones that dont have a clue about computing will end up celebrating you.

Well, a lot of us Nigerians and like the blogger are educated and end up checking the facts.

This is not racism; This is about being proud of our National achievements and the only National achievement that emeagwali has made is conning a whole nation as well as the educated types. I guess if this is how one can get away with it, then I guess its a pity that Nigerians, Africans and black people as a whole are being let down by this fraudster.

The more people know, then the better. But you know our people - they will end up saying 'wetin concern you', go do your own'.

One final note, why doesnt emegwali sue the blogger as well as the wiki encyclopaedia owners for perjury and slander. Why doesn't he even make an attempt to have citation placed on the wiki site for slander.

Its only a matter of time before one of the Americans decides to take him to court for making outlandish claims about being the father of computing.
Posted by Yemi at October 18, 2006 4:56 PM
God, do people really write this kind of rubbish. God, alot of Nigerian do really live in the dark ages.

I am a computer expert myself, brought up, study in the UK and live in the UK. MENSA is the world authority on human IQ, they have called philip emeagwali, the smartest man on the face of the earth, yet a primitive Nigerian is writing bile.

My God, alot of you belong to the dark ages, especially that slowpoke who wrote the main blog.

If any of you have gone to any university that worth it's name, in computing, especially computer communications and networks, once you begin the internet addressing system the first name that comes up is philip emeagwali. So is the internet synchronising and sequential programming, where he first archieve the 3.1 billion per second execution feet.

The software used to calculate, the oil flow under the soil is also emeagwali patent.

The leader of the free world at the time and the most powerful man on the planet at the time Bill Clinton, have been called a liar by a primitive idiot who wrote the main blogg, probably mentally deranged. And some slowpoke are equally supporting his absolute stupidity. You are all still living in the dark ages, with a small mind unable crasp any logical advancement.

Lets put it this way: CNN is a liar, Bill Clinton is a liar, so is IBM, philip emeagwali built super-computer for, so is MENSA in the UK. Yet a primitive idiot in Nigeria, backward and stupid is correct.
Posted by Broderick at October 26, 2006 2:09 AM
That degree if at you got in 1990's is a degree that is not worth the paper it was written on. I wonder if your IQ is not of the same level, needed to bemused and totally confused.

When the BBC here in the UK, called Bernard Lee, the guy who coined www and evented the hupertext, the eventor of the internet, i wrote to BBC, to inform them Lee was a light weight when it comes to inventing the internet and reminded BBC to coin is different from to invent, that philip emeagwali's 65000 processors working together to share resources is what is today the internet. BBC did not dispute this claim.

Yet, a Nigerian that went to a Nigerian university, with a proper lab, book stock etc, can vomit crap.
Posted by Broderick at October 26, 2006 2:23 AM
Broderick,

Despite calling me a 'slowpoke', a 'primitive idiot' and a person of 'absolute stupidity', I have chosen to address the 'issues' you raised, not to convince you, but to aid others who might be interested in knowing more about philip emeagwali and his so-called achievements.

Before doing that, I must reprimand you for presenting logically flawed arguments. If you happen to be both well trained and schooled (in comparison to the 'primitive' Nigerian education I received), you must have heard about something called logical fallacy. Your arguments fall under what I would very much classify as argumentum ad hominem. Rather than addressing the issues in the write-up, you chose to spew out insults and vile language against not just the author of the write-up, but also individuals who left comments.

Hiding under the cloak of anonymity appears to bestow on you the comfort of saying things you most likely would be unable to in the real world. Cyber space does have a way of revealing different characters! Now, back to the real issues at hand.

Mensa called philip emeagwali the smartest man on the face of the earth? Could you kindly provide me with a verifiable source of this information? I did an online search for this and found no information about it with the exception of an article written by a Dr. philip Chukwurah, which quotes a 2002 edition of the Sunday Herald, Glasgow as its source. The Sunday Herald article (if it exists, for I cannot find it) could pretty much have relied on information from philip emeagwali's website—a website filled with fraudulent and unverifiable information. I have written to Mensa to inquire if they ever voted for philip emeagwali as the smartest man alive. The moment I have their response, I will make it public on this weblog.

Mr. emeagwali's 3.1 billion computations per second feat in 1989 had nothing whatsoever to do with Internet synchronizing and sequential programming. Neither was it the fastest computation performed that year. The Gordon Bell prize, which philip emeagwali won, was NOT for the fastest computation but for a prize-performance of an oil reservoir modeling on an EXISTING Connection Machine supercomputer. This was addressed in a previous write-up with a relevant link to the Gordon Bell website (read the comments section).

You claim that the software used to write the computer program was patented by philip emeagwali. Could you kindly provide the source of this information (apart from emeagwali's fraudulent website)? As indicated in a previous write-up, philip emeagwali has NO KNOWN patents in the database of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Where then is this patent held? In addition to searching the USPTO website, I have also been able to verify that emeagwali has NO KNOWN scientific publications, by searching the global database of scientific publishers.

I also addressed the article on the CNN website about philip emeagwali in a previous-write-up (see comments section). And, O yes, Bill Clinton's speechwriter and the Nigerian government appear to have been fooled. I make no apologies for saying this. That's what happens when people fail to verify information at hand.

The Connection Machine supercomputer, which philip emeagwali used, had nothing whatsoever to do with the invention of the Internet. It was an existing computer at the University of Michigan. There is no basis for comparing philip emeagwali to Tim Berners-Lee when it comes to the Internet.

I understand the anger and pain one feels when one's view of reality is suddenly called into question. You have presented mere statements, with no evidence whatsoever to back up your claims. I have provided more than statements. I have provided evidence—the Gordon Bell website, a search on the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a search of the global scientific database using SciFinder. What these indicate is that philip emeagwali makes fraudulent claims on his website.

I do not know what sort of university you happen to be studying at in the UK. I ask this because for someone brought up and studying in the UK, your command of the English language is nothing to write home about. But then, should I be any surprised? Your university mentions philip emeagwali as the prima donna of computer communications and networking. And…what would the name of that university be?
Posted by Chippla Vandu at October 26, 2006 1:14 PM
If it's really true that he's fake, how he has been able to deceive thousands (or millions??) of people may forever remain a mystery to me. Afterall, for him to have made unsubstantial claims, there should have been people, who could have debunked them long ago. I mean, starting from the Science bodies, to the US government, and even other invstigative personnels. How come people, even top bodies, have not raised any refutations to this issue until now that a regular blogger just spilled it out? I'm really baffled.
Posted by Segun at November 28, 2006 10:48 PM
simple,

Because most people (like some of the people on this forum) do not have relevant & sufficient knowledge in computing (i.e.35 years of computing history)and seem to think the world of computers is all about your PC and Microsoft Windows.

Secondly, the majority of people (including Nigerians) never bother to check facts out and thats why any Nigerian can do any sort of 419 to unsuspecting indivdiuals.

Thirdly, ask yourself the question - why is it that 419'ers(fraudsters) rarely get caught by the system i.e. FBI, CIA and s called Science bodies? Simple - not enough resources to catch the multitudes of scammers, and not enough people to verify the facts (hence there is only one person verifying all of the Professors' claims, and its a crying shame that our fellow Nigerians even try and pull him down for asking a valid question - shows how sorry we can be).

Busted !!!! grin

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by traihit: 9:00pm On Sep 05, 2018
SMH... sad sad
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.

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TundeBricklayer: 9:02pm On Sep 05, 2018
Encyclopedia not their useless links grin

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by totit: 9:02pm On Sep 05, 2018
grin

Busted !!!!

Innovators who break barriers
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/fyi/
interactive/specials/bhm/story/
black.innovators.html
Posted by Anonymous at September 16, 2006 12:47 AM
Anonymous:

I believe Bill Clinton's speech writer, like the Nigerian government and New African Magazine were all fooled by the fraudulent information on Mr. emeagwali's website. The video is however authentic. I wrote to New African Magazine a while ago, requesting for the source of their information on philip emeagwali. They are yet to reply. I made an attempt to contact Mr. emeagwali himself, putting questions about the authenticity of information on his website before him, but was turned down.

shocked
Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by IbnAbdullah1(m): 9:04pm On Sep 05, 2018
TundeBricklayer:
.Afonjas and bitterness are like 5 & 6
He is celebrated by reputable media not Sahara report owned by conehead also known for character assassination


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:
cry I thot dis guy was just known for winning the Gordon bell prize? I'm hearing d rest for d first time... Even on wiki I can't see all these,can someone further explain please
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 ?

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by TundeBricklayer: 9:06pm On Sep 05, 2018
IbnAbdullah1:



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 totit: 9:06pm On Sep 05, 2018
Busted grin
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.

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by IbnAbdullah1(m): 9:12pm On Sep 05, 2018
Odingo1:


Phillip Emeagwali is great man, your hate wont bring him down, he have achieve something,go and achieve your own instead of hating.


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.

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Odingo1: 9:12pm On Sep 05, 2018
naptu2:
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.

They said father of modern day internet not father of internet, Afonja ronu

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by naptu2: 9:13pm On Sep 05, 2018
Odingo1:


They said father of modern day internet not father of internet

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.

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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:


What makes him the father of the modern day Internet?
He developed the fastest modern super computer, there was Internet before he develop that

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by totit: 9:19pm On Sep 05, 2018
An inventor without patent right grin shocked shocked shocked

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by Odingo1: 9:19pm On Sep 05, 2018
IbnAbdullah1:



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.

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.

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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

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Re: Meet Philip Emeagwali: Biography Of Father Of Modern Day Internet by naptu2: 9:20pm On Sep 05, 2018
Odingo1:

He developed the fastest modern super computer, there was Internet before he develop that

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!

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