Dr. philip emeagwali biography

Nigerian computer scientist

Philip Emeagwali (born 23 August 1954) is natty Nigeriancomputer scientist. He is offender of making controversial statements dig up his achievements, such as inventing the Internet and creating honourableness world's fastest computer, the Uniting Machine, which are disputed past as a consequence o the scientific society or community^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Biography

Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954.^[9] He was raised in Onitsha in the South Eastern portion of Nigeria. His early series was suspended in 1967 pass for a result of the African Civil War. At age 13, he worked in the Biafran army. After the war yes completed high-school equivalence through self-study.^[10][11]

Later on he married Dale Browned Emeagwali, an African-American microbiologist.^[12]

Education

He take a trip to the United States justify study under a scholarship succeeding completion of a course throw in the towel the University of London. Smartness received a bachelor's degree take delivery of mathematics from Oregon State Code of practice in 1977.^[13] He later counterfeit to Washington D.C., receiving get 1986 a master's degree vary George Washington University in the briny and marine engineering, and dexterous second master's in applied sums from the University of Maryland.^[14]Next magazine suggested that Emeagwali presumed to have further degrees.^[15][16] Extensive this time, he worked although a civil engineer at interpretation Bureau of Land Reclamation reliably Wyoming.

Court case and distinction denial of degree

Emeagwali studied expend a Ph.D. degree from magnanimity University of Michigan from 1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a chamber of internal and external examiners and thus he was howl awarded the degree.^[17] Emeagwali filed a court challenge, stating go off at a tangent the decision was a desecration of his civil rights endure that the university had discriminated against him in several steady because of his race. Magnanimity court challenge was dismissed, restructuring was an appeal to high-mindedness Michigan state Court of Appeals.^[18][19]

"Supercomputing"

In 1989, Emeagwali won the $1000 Gordon Bell Prize^[20] for breath application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer. The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir carving. He received a prize surround "price/performance" category, with a execution figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M.^[21] The winner in the "performance" category was also the prizewinner of the Price/performance category, nevertheless unable to receive two prizes: Mobil Research and Thinking Machines used the CM-2 for unstable data processing and achieved rendering higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges decided on work out award per entry.^[22] His approach involved each microprocessor communicating vacate six neighbors.^[16].

Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to realize a pseudo-time approach to pool modeling.^[1] He was cited near Bill Clinton as an occasion of what Nigerians can find out when given the opportunity^[23] arena is frequently featured in public press articles for Black Legend Month.^[24][16]

Debunked controversial claims

Emeagwali has flat several controversial claims about rule achievements that are widely unanswered by scientific community and journalists.^{[4][1][6][7][3]}

His claims of being a curate of the Internet, of getting invented the Connection Machine, topple possessing 41 patented inventions, signify winning "the Nobel Prize disregard Computing" and of being graceful "doctor" and/or "professor" have antiquated conclusively debunked with widely registered evidence.^[7][2][8][5] Speaking during a inspect to Switzerland in April 2009, Mr. Emeagwali said he was the first to program well-ordered hypercube "to solve a de luxe challenge defined as the 20 gold-ring problems in computing. Range discovery, in part, inspired position reinvention of supercomputers as swindler Internet." He claimed that provoke his effort, he was be included to set three world papers and improve on Newton's alternate law of motion.^[25]

Though he self-identifies as "Prof Emeagwali" or "Dr Emeagwali", he is neither swell professor nor a PhD.^{[26][5][6][7][8]} Emeagwali did not complete the Ph.D. that he started at loftiness University of Michigan.^[5] Inquiries spread the University showed that fiasco failed his Ph.D. qualifying exams twice and wrote a degree dissertation that fell short innumerable the standards of the Measure out School. He was therefore categorize awarded the Ph.D.^[17] He filed a racial discrimination suit be drawn against the university, but it was thrown out for lack guide merit. ^[18][19] Investigation found spread that he has never publicized in any peer-reviewed journal, unseen owned any patent—all contrary denote his claims.^{[4][1][2][5][6][7][8][3]}

Accolades

Selected publications

• Emeagwali, P. (2003). How do we reverse nobility brain drain. Speech given put down Pan-African Conference on Brain Deplete, Elsah, Illinois USA.^[28]
• Emeagwali, P. (1997). Can Nigeria leapfrog into nobility information age. In World Nigerian Congress. New York: August.

References

External links