The Philip Emeagwali litany of hoaxes and unveriafiable claims continue at Wikiverse. Now, a handle said to be a pen name for Philip Emeagwali has lashed out at Chioma Ezeilo for exposing Emeagwali's fraudulent claims that he (Emeagwali) invented the Internet and that he has numerous (as many as 30) patents. According to Philip Emeagwali (a.k.a. Anonymous):
Only a desperate man could fabricate such a dumb story. Personally, I think that by resorting to these kinds of childish pranks, Emeagwali has once and for all proved that he is nothing but a deranged crook, a University of Michigan dropout pretending to be an African genius.
When Emeagwali was challenged to prove the claims he made, he became silent. Emeagwali was also unable to substantiate his claim that he had access to driver license records in Utah. Nor could he provide the names or countr(y)(ies) of origin of the "eight African villagers."
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Is Emeagwali still around? I thought Chioma Ezeilo ran him out of town.
Vertigo, the modus operandi of that Robert Merkel is surely that of Emeagwali. All Emeagwali needs to do is show evidence of his so called patents or better still mention what products use his patents. He would not do that instead he resorts to cheap acts like "responsible for death of eight villagers" rubish. In what country? In what way?
In his previous attempt at defence, did he not claim that Chioma Ezeilo worked for the KKK?
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I have been informed that you are a frequent visitor to BNW. Therefore, I use this medium to make it clear to you that I will not be bullied. If you continue to attack me and make childish statements against me, it will only lead me to continue to expose you and your 419 scams.
You are an Igbo man who has a bachelor degree in general mathematics. You were admitted into the University of Michigan where you could have earned a masters degree and then a Ph.D. Unfortunately for you, you failed your exams and you were expelled from the University of Michigan. Instead of looking inward and sorting out your personal and academic problems, you launched a massive campaign of fraud, proclaiming yourself to be a "father of the Internet." Your scam was aimed at fooling Igbo people and Nigerians - a country that thanks to you and your ilk will forever be known as a sponsor of fraud and scams.
I wish to make it abundantly clear to you that more information has come to light since my article in which I exposed your fraudulent online exaggerations. I am now prepared to put to rest any items that were tentative when I first exposed you and your criminal online enterprise. If you think that using anonymous handles to attack me will serve your purposes, then, be my guest. You can be sure that your childish outbursts will not prevent me from telling the world that you are nothing but a grand online fraud who uses his mediocre knowledge of the Internet to defraud unsuspecting Igbo people and Nigerians.
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quote:Are you sure you have not been paid or bamboozled to help spread some of the infamous Emeagwali myths?
Enigma,
I just see things a lot different that most folks here. I truly never saw the need for an un warranted attacks on this man Emeagwali. If what he chooses to do is self promote as some of your here allegation infers, so be it. He is protected by both freedom of expression and an Igbo proverb about that lizard that fell from a tree, etc, etc. I am sure that he is not the first Nigerian to do so again if that is the case with him, but I strongly think that he is who he says he is. The only time I had a problem with him was when he wanted to trace his ancestors to Yorubaland but then even that is his right, I must acknowledge.
Let the Doc be Lady Chioma. He is a gift to his family, the Onitsha clan, Anambra State and the Igbo Nation .
PS. I ran out of time.
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My Late Grand Father once told me this story many years ago and I veryly believe him:
In africa there are 2 types of edible crab species; the Black crabs, and the Red crabs. Now when you catch 10 black crabs and 10 red crabs and put them all in the same basket, you will find after a short while that out of the 10 red crabs at least 3 or 4 would have escaped the basket and made considerable progress in their bid for freedom. In the same space of time, none of the black crabs would have been able to leave the basket, all 10 will remain inside. This is because while the red crabs climb each others back and form chains so that 3 or 4 of them might escape, the black crabs spend their time by pulling down any black crab that has managed to climb the brothers back.
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quote:The only time I had a problem with him was when he wanted to trace his ancestors to Yorubaland but then even that is his right, I must acknowledge.
Ednut:
Emeagwali is a free man and he should be able to call himself a hausa man or Yoruba man if he wants. Nothing wrong with that in my book.
My only problem is that he has brought disgrace to Anambra by making up lies about who he really is. That is why we now keep him at bay during important functions. So, when you say he is a gift to "the Onitsha clan, Anambra State and the Igbo Nation," I can only assume that you are being sarcastic.
As far as dropping out of school is concerned, Emeagwali is not the first person to fail his exams and drop out of a university. But, a person who dropped out from school after failing his exams should not be going around demanding to be treated as the most intelligent African dead or alive. That is what makes some people think that the guy is mentally disturbed.
I do feel sorry for the guy. But, he brought it on himself when he began to tell all sorts of lies on the web.
Ochiwar:
Your red crab black crab analogy does not apply. What we have in Emeagwali is a black crab that can't climb but is trying to paint itself red.
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I do not think that Emegwali dropped out of his doctoral progam because he was a dummy or could not do the work.
While in a doctoral program, one has to maintain cool heads with his advisors and professors in order to out successfully. He might have been booted out due to arrogance or for some other reason(s) that is or are not related to academics.
I have to be frank that I do not endorse him calling himself father of internet.
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Tagbo, I think the red crab-black crab anology is quite apt. I cannot really see what this Emeagwali is supposed to have done that is so terrible as to warrant this type of sustained smear campaing against him. It no longer seems objective but is starting to smack of personal vendetta.
The person who posted his comments on the wikkipedia article did so anonymous. It could be anybody, it could well have been me. It is wrong to assume with 100 percent certainty that it is Emegwali writing. I think if Emegwali wanted to respont to the article or to C.Ezeilo, he would have the guts to do so openly, but he seems to be ignoring for reasons best known to him.
As to the wikipedia article on Emeagwali, I think it is hard to find a better example of an article that is openly racist. It is not a description of what Emeagwali is ( that is what biographies are supposed to be about) but of what Emeagwali is not. Even what great acchievements did make, are downplayed, obscured, and belittled.
What are the crimes for which he is being nailed to the cross of public opinion?
His main supposed crime is that he claimed on his website that
quote:I have been described as "one of the fathers of the Internet," a phrase that recognizes that many people contributed to the invention of the Internet.-- Emeagwali.com
Please note that Emeagwali never claims to have invented the internet. He does not claim to be a father of the internet. Rather he claims to have been described as a father of the internet. C.Ezeilo has gone to great lenghts to criticize him for this. But further down in her article she provides the following quote from CNN
quote:It was his formula that used 65,000 separate computer processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989. That feat led to computer scientists comprehending the capabilities of supercomputers and the practical applications of creating a system that allowed multiple computers to communicate. He is recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet. CNN, February 9, 2001.
If CNN did indeed report this on Emeagwali, the I dare say that by all standards of logic, emeagwalis claim (I have been described as "one of the fathers of the Internet,") , however unfounded it may be, is indeed factual and accurrate as CNN ( and probably others) did actually describe him as such. I think it is his good right to make the most of such positive critique by CNN. He could only be accused of sounding his own trumpet , not of fraud as Ezeilo is doing. Egotriping is not fraud. If it where, C.Ezeilo`s incesant attacks against her brother would also constitute fraud as this seems to be her only claim to fame, its an ego trip too. Fact is that Emeagwali has made numerous contibutions to supercomputing and interneting.
And when C. Ezeilo states in her intresting article that
quote: Last, but not least, I want to address a very serious issue raised by Philip Emeagwali, namely that: “His work has brought him recognition but also a lot of hate and racism from white supremacists.” As Africans, African-Americans, people of color, however we are characterized, we are, or have been, victims of racism. To me, this is intolerable. However, what I find even more heinous is when someone tries to gain our sympathy and support by crying “wolf.”--C.Ezeilo
I cannot help but wonder who is Chioma Ezeilo to judge who is crying wolf and who not, and by what criteria does she judge? Here is a man who has gone up to the court of appeal in a fight against what he percieves as racial discrimination and you are still assume the man is crying wolf. I think it is only fair to give some benefit of doubt as it is he who wears the shoe that feels the pinch.
I think it is safe to say that I like Ednut see things a little differently.
And when you find People like Ednut or me writing in support or partial support of Emeagwali on this web site, it should become clear that the anoymous response to the wiki article might very well NOT have been Emeagwali writing.
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Here’s my major beef with subject at hand. After Mazi P. Emeagwali’s unsuccessful completion of Doctorate in Engineering at Michigan U, he should have allowed it to pass or be humble enough to repeat somewhere else. Instead he played the race game and failed. This and many other crap is what Chioma wants people to see.
quote:He is protected by both freedom of expression and an Igbo proverb about that lizard that fell from a tree, etc, etc. - Ednut
Ed, freedom of speech does not cover fraudulent activities. His premature use of the “Dr” appellation was wrong. Here lies the “fraud.” I hope you don’t think you would get away with your freedom when you shout fire in a crowded theatre? In case of the lizard, it fell then praised itself for surviving such a fall. It didn’t claim to have fallen when in actual case nothing of such happened. Nnaa, this is the case with Philip whom I wish had allowed reason to guide him. I don’t see why he could not have been equally proud of his B.S. in MATHEMATICS, a subject that terrorized most students. It’s unfair to yab Chioma who engaged in public service to share what she knew about Mazi Philip.
Rick:
quote:While in a doctoral program, one has to maintain cool heads with his advisors and professors in order to out successfully. He might have been booted out due to arrogance or for some other reason(s) that is or are not related to academics.
How na? Well, I beg to disagree. In sciences as you should know, there is not much leeway for any errant Professor to play with a student’s papers unlike literature, History etc, subjects that are subjective. The Lecturer/Professor could use sentence structure to disrupt one, which is not the case in scientific programs. In Mathematics/Engineering, either you are conversant with the formulas or you’re not, no two ways. And if you do, no amount of ‘dislike’ by your Advisor or Department Head would derail such knowledge. If for example Mazi Philip was required to find X squared or X to the power of three, where X is 3, his final answers could only be; 3x2 = 6 or 3x3x3 = 27. These answers should have the same effect as that of a favored student who is nonetheless knowledgeable, both will definitely be awarded their diplomas. On the other hand, if arrogance was the issue it might not have garnered him an invite to a ballroom gig organized by the Professor, but it will surely not be a deterrent to receiving his due grades if he knew his onions. If you ask me I did say Philip appears to be a smart fella although Ms. Chioma took exception to his EMBELLISHED/padded resume, which was totally uncalled for by him.
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Let me get this straight; you are saying that Chioma Ezeilo's article is an attempt to pull Emeagwali down? I hope with your crap story you are not advocating for Umuigbo to cheat and lie just to be seen to be "smart" or make "progress"?
You can really keep Emeagwali and his progress to your self but please don't associate him with the Igbo nation. It has always been our culture to celt excellence, industry, archivementan hardwork. We also expect evidence of such achievemet to be clear to all to see. We also don't expect the individual to be blowing his own trumpet.
This and more is what Emeagwali has done. He has claimed to be what he is not. Unsuspecting and naive Umu -Igbo desperate for hero have given him respect which in my opinion is not earned. When people asked "where is the Beef?" They were silenced! It took one brave individual to expose him for what he really is.
Ironically,after so many years, no one has been able to counter the issues raised by Chioma Ezeilo all they have done is to call her names.
Does anyone still remember the Radio Mbaise fellow? Every one knew he did it, some even heard his broadcasts: Chinua Achebe we all know. Emeagwali on the other hand we know from what is in his web site and he put it there.
BTW: The CNN thing was siting Emeagwali's site and once CNN repeated it, he edited his site to make it look like the quote originated from CNN.
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Wacko, I think your story about the CNN thing is nothing but presumption and is like the futile and never ending falacy "what was first, the chiken or the egg?"
Aside that, I am simply pointing out that I find it distinctly illogical for Ezeilo to go extra miles to vehemently attack Emeagwalis statement "I have been described as "one of the fathers of the Internet," only for the same Ezeilo, a few scrolls later to provide the links of where people (the prestigious CNN) have indeed been describing Emeagwali as a father of the internet. If people have been describing him as such then his claim is right. CNN may have been wrong to describe him as such, but fact is they did. So his claim that they did is factual and correct. It will remain correct and factual until CNN refute or withdraw that statement.
What I am also saying is that no matter what C.Ezeilo`s good intentions may have been of enlightening the public about Emeagwali now seems about to degenerate into a pull down affair. And not only by Ezeilo but by us. For example just look at the mixture of venom, half truths and false hood and misrepresentation of issues Vertigo started this very thread with
quote: The Philip Emeagwali litany of hoaxes and unveriafiable claims continue at Wikiverse. Now, a handle said to be a pen name for Philip Emeagwali has lashed out at Chioma Ezeilo for exposing Emeagwali's fraudulent claims that he (Emeagwali) invented the Internet and that he has numerous (as many as 30) patents. --Vertigo
Let us mentain our objectivity even (especially) in criticism. There is no proof whatsoever that Emeagwali is the author of that handle. For God`s sake Emeagwali never claimed to have invented the internet. In his website I never found where he claimed to have as many as 30 patents. What do you call this?
there are many ways to skin a cat. You can critisize constuctively and objectively if you wish.Probably that is what you do when you are with your bredren. On the other hand, you can criticize destructively, meanly, leaving no stone unturned in an effort to discredit and destroy your prey. In that case the motives would be spite, envy, jealousy, personal hatred, bad belle, . check it.
As to your question on the ethics of cheating to make progress in life... hmmm? Wacko, are you playing naive ? I think that one may deserve a seperate thread of its own.
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It is truly disturbing to read an Igbo man writing about science and technology as though he were writing about voodoo and witch-craft. If Ochiwar were realy serious about defending Emeagwali, he would have told us in his words what what he believes Emeagwali's achievements to be, instead of making deceitful references to "great achievements" without telling us what those achievements are.
quote:Originally posted by Ochiwar: Tagbo, Even what great acchievements did make, are downplayed, obscured, and belittled.
What are the crimes for which he is being nailed to the cross of public opinion?
His main supposed crime is that he claimed on his website that
quote:I have been described as "one of the fathers of the Internet," a phrase that recognizes that many people contributed to the invention of the Internet.-- Emeagwali.com
Please note that Emeagwali never claims to have invented the internet. He does not claim to be a father of the internet. Rather he claims to have been described as a father of the internet. C.Ezeilo has gone to great lenghts to criticize him for this. But further down in her article she provides the following quote from CNN
quote:It was his formula that used 65,000 separate computer processors to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989. That feat led to computer scientists comprehending the capabilities of supercomputers and the practical applications of creating a system that allowed multiple computers to communicate. He is recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet. CNN, February 9, 2001.
Chioma Ezeilo clearly laid out Emeagwali's claims, indeed, she itemized and sytematically debunked them. If Ochiwar wishes to be taken seriously, he should at least show a little rigor in his writing instead of launching aimless attacks at Ezeilo.
With all due respect, I believe that Ochiwar failed to read the article by Chioma Ezeilo. The entire post by Ochiwar shows that he either did not read or he had difficulty comprehending Ezeilo's article. Both are inexcusable for a debater on this board.
It is shameful to think that an Igbo man is selling this Emeagwali snake oil to the world less than 24-hours after Amadi O wrote the following:
quote:In the '50s/'60s under colonial rule, the nigerian economy was growing at a respectable rate; citizens were reasonably confident of the future and of their own personal perspects. But a group of Africans led by Zik decided to rid themselves of colonial rule. They kicked out the british to restore self rule. Before they left, the british installed a pliable hausa/fulani man to run nigerian politics, but for the most part, the management and administration of the economy was in the hands of the Igbo. No problem. The Igbo imposed meritocracy on the system; it was efficient. Individuals were left alone to compete for business anywhere without interferance. Most of the basic needs of the citizen were met; the economy prospered. Streets were kept clean, water supply was growing to match the growing population; Igbo engineers made sure ECN supplied uninterrupted power to industry and homes; the trains ran and ran on time; the road network was expanding; the standard of education was among the highest in the world; people wanted to come to Nigeria to do business.
These things did not happen because those at the top hid behind a cowardly pretence of conducting sophisticated diplomacy with economic supremacists in the West to sign away Biafran oil wealth as a way to stay in power and dictate to the Igbo. They happened because the management at the top level was courageous and culturally disposed to compete with any one, while discounting the gimmicks of the western financiers and their cut-throat lending policies. They also paid more attention to building a local economy with the abundant local input. Contrast that with what the yoroba/hausa managers of today have done with the economy since 1970 and their shameless deference to their masters in western capital.
Still bent on overthrowing competition and meritocracy, the hausa/fulani got jealous of Igbo education and know-how and wanted a short-cut to position of power to impose their culture of feudalism, oligarchy and lack of respect for individual responsibility. Instead of competing with the Igbo on education and skills acquisitions - the major differentiators and ingredients of personal improvement that have served any culture well - the haisa/fulani elected, with support from britain and the yoroba, to outrightly overthrow competition and impose feudalism and a culture of sharia. Now they have successfully dislodged the merit system that helped create a growing economy; in place today in BiafraNigeria since 1970 is the yoroba/hausa system of running the govenment and doing business, which is based on their cultures and way of life - their idea of how a country is run. How else can you explain what is happening? You have seen the substance of their management in action since the war was suspended. My question to you is are you proud of what they have done?
Remember that when Northern United States was in total control of US government and the economy during the years following the Civil War, at least their own region of the country was industrializing. Other than shamelessly stealing Biafran oil wealth at the individual level, can you say that the yoroba/hausa managers of nigeria have created a growing economy even in their own regions of the country, if you discount the islands of growth in the towns of Lagos and Abuja, made possible by oil wealth from Biafra? Won't you then agree that these people are either dumb or have no idea what they're doing?
Emeagwali's antecedents satisfy me that he is the author of the "anonymous" attack on Chioma Ezeilo at Wikipedia. It is a pattern he continued from sending his wife to launch an attack on Chioma Ezeilo when Ezeilo's article first appeared.
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Dear DR.B, so far we have been writing mainly on Emeagwali, not Science and technology. I hope you are not a Doctor of Voodoo! lol.
But seriously, my scope is that I see Chiomas articles as a bit too one sided and uncalled for. I respect Emegwali for ignoring her attacks. In her articles Chioma went out of her way to bring down Emegwali doing a lot of research to bring out his court case files and a lot of other "dirt". She calls him a university drop out fraud and other nasty things. Now you are asking me of his achievements. You see that is the point I am making. Due to all this negative propaganda, you all dont know his achievements anymore!!! I ask myself why chioma would spend so much time and energy to inform the world about Emegwalis misachievements, and then be silent on his achievements. to me it does not look neutral or balanced. Why do we then all continue to ignore well researched and detailed information on Emeagwalis achievements avaliable to us from authoritative academic sources, just a mouseclick away? we preffer to depend completely on Chiomas one sided story? I need not mention again the article on CNN
A Father of the internet. Are you all telling me that the CNN people are completely stupid? They did not do their research, but just went to copy Emeagwali website. As did Bill clinton and his Gang?. Maybe? Hmm. Well but how about this more comprehensive one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering; Philip Emeagwali Computer Innovations Computer scientist Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954. He was a brilliant student whose gifts were evident by age 10 when he was already impressing teachers and classmates with his so-called "magical" mathematical abilities.
Emeagwali suffered a difficult upbringing in Nigeria, living through a conflict beginning in 1967 when he was taken out of school, so his family could hide in refuge camps during an ethnic cleansing in which 50,000 Igbos were killed. He served at age 14 as a child-soldier in the Biafran army, fighting for six months in a bloody civil war. When the war ended he was able to enter school again, but later his parents had to stop sending him because they could no longer afford his school fees. His father, James, continued teaching him at home until his son knew more than he did. He then studied on his own to finish high school and in 1973, he earned a General Certificate of Education from the University of London.
His success in school paid off and Emeagwali was awarded a full scholarship to Oregon State University where he studied math. After that he went to George Washington University, where he eventually earned a master's degree in civil and environmental engineering and another in ocean, coastal and marine engineering. He also earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland and later attended graduate school at the University of Michigan.
Emeagwali worked in Michigan as a civil engineer on projects such as highways and dams. In 1974, he read a 1922 science fiction article on how to use 64,000 mathematicians to forecast the weather for the entire planet. This inspired his idea to use 64,000 processors distributed evenly around the world to forecast the weather accurately. He called this a HyperBall international network of computers.
At first, Emeagwali's proposal to use 64,000 computers to form an international network was rejected as "impossible." But he persevered, quietly writing up his calculations in a proposal that described the use of 64 binary thousand (65,536) processors to perform the world’s fastest computation. His formula would enable a computer to make 3.1 billion calculations a second.
His claim to fame, which lead to his being called "the Bill Gates of Africa," came in 1987. That year, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the United States government's prime nuclear weapons research center, had been unsuccessful in programming the Lab’s 65,536 processors to simulate nuclear explosions. They were considering proposals from physicists — and Emeagwali's was accepted. He was granted permission to program all 65,536 of the Los Alamos processors, which he did remotely from Michigan.
Later Emeagwali applied his supercomputing solution by programming "The Connection Machine" to determine how oil flows underground so companies could extract it most efficiently. The results allowed the American oil industry to tap into huge reserves of oil they had been unable to access before, contributing billions of dollars to the government's oil-exploration programs. His supercomputer has subsequently been used on projects such as improving the accuracy of weather predictions, tracking bloodflow in the human heart, calculating the movement of buried nuclear waste, tracking the spread of AIDS, and determining the long-term effects of gases in the air.
How is that for achievements? This is what I call an objective article . So tell me Dr.B do you think the people at MIT are mad or they dont know what they are saying?. Did they copy this from Emeagwali website? so far from Chiomas speculative version of the story, the man is hardly a university drop out, but the academic community is here telling you that he holds several masters degrees in various fields!!!. A man with several masters degrees could not make his doctorate and still you say he is crying wolf about racism.
Please I think its time to leave Emeagwali in peace. He is not doing any one any harm.
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The main trouble I have with your writing is that the statements you attribute to specific sources cannot be found in those sources. I hope it is not too much to hold you to the same standard that we on this board have been demanding of others for years.
Accordingt to you:
quote: But seriously, my scope is that I see Chiomas articles as a bit too one sided and uncalled for. I respect Emegwali for ignoring her attacks. In her articles Chioma went out of her way to bring down Emegwali doing a lot of research to bring out his court case files and a lot of other "dirt". She calls him a university drop out fraud and other nasty things.
First, your statement that Emeagwali ignored Chioma Ezeilo's article exposes your own lack of facts on this issue. Emeagwali wrote a long rebuttal to Chioma Ezeilo, which he forwarded and published through Dr. Okenwa Nwosu. In the so-called rebuttal Emeagwali wasted his readers' time claiming that Chioma Ezeilo was an agent of white supremacists out to undermine him. Till today, no sane Igbo man has been able to put his finger on exactly what Emeagwali's achievements are. So, on what bases do you claim that Emeagwali ignored Chioma Ezeilo, especially when a dubious handle claiming to be "anonymous" emerged years after Ezeilo's article to tell Emeagwali-like tales about "eight African villagers."
You wrote:
quote:Chioma went out of her way to bring down Emegwali doing a lot of research to bring out his court case files and a lot of other "dirt". She calls him a university drop out fraud and other nasty things
Please, show us where in the entire article by Ezeilo that she mentioned anything about Emeagwali's university dropout experience. Your willingness to make false statements and throw unsubstantiated allegations at Ezeilo suggests to me that you are the one carrying a vendetta. The question is: why?
For your information, the report that Philip Emeagwali dropped out from the civil engineering program at the University of Michigan became known here months (if not years) after Chioma Ezeilo's article when another member of this forum published the court case. The court case proved Ezeilo's point.
You have started dumping garbage on this forum as a way to make your point. You dumped
quote:Emeagwali worked in Michigan as a civil engineer on projects such as highways and dams. In 1974, he read a 1922 science fiction article on how to use 64,000 mathematicians to forecast the weather for the entire planet. This inspired his idea to use 64,000 processors distributed evenly around the world to forecast the weather accurately. He called this a HyperBall international network of computers.
You wrote that statement years after it has been uncontroverted that Emeagwali was expelled from the civil engineering program after he failed basic engineering exams, not once but three times. Don't you first have to be an engineer before you can work as an engineer?
One may sympathize with Emeagwali's difficult childhood, but what is the excuse for his difficult adulthood? Why did he fail basic engineering school exams and why did he fail to tell his readers about it at his website? Why did we have to wait to read about the court case from other sources. Why did all this fairy-tale gibberish about his genius begin the exact same time he was expelled from school for poor scholarship? The court case makes it clear case makes it clear that Emeagwali was given repeated opportunity to make-up his academic deficiencies. He failed to do so. He was even given the opportunity to bring in third parties that he considered fairer than his professors. The verdict of all the parties was the same. With no background in Engineering, Emeagwali was admitted into the Ph.D. program in civil engineering. He failed his exams there. The university was generous and gave him another opportunity, including an opportunity to write for a degree in the computer science department, after Emeagwali claimed that his interest was in computer engineering. He again failed to meet the academic requirements.
In 1989, he won a one-thousand dollar award (Gordon Bell) for plugging a simple partial differential equation into the connecting machine. Even though his was not the fastest result, he was given the award as consolation because the winning team had already won an award in another category. Yet, he had the nerve to cry discrimination and claim that he would not have won if it had been known that he was black. Later, he claimed that the $1000.00 award was the equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Do you agree with that?
I find it amusing that you are unable to list the things you refer to as Emeagwali's "great achievements." I suspect strongly that you don't know what they are. Neither does any sane person.
With all due respect to you, except for the bachelor degree in math from Oregun, the following reads like a 419 resume:
quote:His success in school paid off and Emeagwali was awarded a full scholarship to Oregon State University where he studied math. After that he went to George Washington University, where he eventually earned a master's degree in civil and environmental engineering and another in ocean, coastal and marine engineering. He also earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland and later attended graduate school at the University of Michigan.
Emeagwali worked in Michigan as a civil engineer on projects such as highways and dams. In 1974, he read a 1922 science fiction article on how to use 64,000 mathematicians to forecast the weather for the entire planet. This inspired his idea to use 64,000 processors distributed evenly around the world to forecast the weather accurately. He called this a HyperBall international network of computers.
At first, Emeagwali's proposal to use 64,000 computers to form an international network was rejected as "impossible." But he persevered, quietly writing up his calculations in a proposal that described the use of 64 binary thousand (65,536) processors to perform the world’s fastest computation. His formula would enable a computer to make 3.1 billion calculations a second.
His claim to fame, which lead to his being called "the Bill Gates of Africa," came in 1987. That year, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the United States government's prime nuclear weapons research center, had been unsuccessful in programming the Lab’s 65,536 processors to simulate nuclear explosions. They were considering proposals from physicists — and Emeagwali's was accepted. He was granted permission to program all 65,536 of the Los Alamos processors, which he did remotely from Michigan.
Later Emeagwali applied his supercomputing solution by programming "The Connection Machine" to determine how oil flows underground so companies could extract it most efficiently. The results allowed the American oil industry to tap into huge reserves of oil they had been unable to access before, contributing billions of dollars to the government's oil-exploration programs. His supercomputer has subsequently been used on projects such as improving the accuracy of weather predictions, tracking bloodflow in the human heart, calculating the movement of buried nuclear waste, tracking the spread of AIDS, and determining the long-term effects of gases in the air.
Emeagwali told the world that the computer he invented and patented is called the "hyperball computer." I ask you Ochiwar: Do you know how humans can get their hands on that computer or the patent?
You and Emeagwali are very funny people.
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quote:The main trouble I have with your writing is that the statements you attribute to specific sources cannot be found in those sources.
Dr. B you beat me to it. I have been searching the MIT web site for the said quote or mention of Emeagwali, but I am yet to see it. Perhaps Ochiwar can post the link.
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