I know you are enjoying this. So am I. That's why I put in one post before heading out to Church. Have fun!
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quote:He is married to Dale Emeagwali, a professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, who was voted the 1996 Scientist of the Year by America's National Technical Association. Their success has allowed them to bring five of Emeagwali's brothers and sisters from Nigeria to the United States, where all have either graduated from college or are currently in school.
Obtained US permanent residency visas for 35 closest relatives timeline
Thank God Bill Gate dropped out of school! Emeagwali should have taken a cue from Bill Gate. The more petty things he includes in his biography, the more people wonder if he is a self promoting freak.
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So he's a good salesman and promoter of himself, so what. You don't knock him for that. That's the American Way. It's about selling yourself successfully and profiting from it. He has broken no laws.
But he's also well grounded. Nothing fake about programing computers in California from Michigan and doing so successfully. Engineers understand that. To me he's not shouting enough. If he can manage his personality better, his exploits ought to elevate him to the same corporate level as Cisco, EMC, Varitas, Kenneth Nwabueze's SageMetrics.
Emeagwali, if you want a partnership PM me. I know how to sell.
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What many here may not know is that Emeagwali's website has been drastically modified in response to Chioma Ezeilo's article. For example, he has removed his claim that he invented a "hyperball computer" and he holds a patent for that invention. He has also removed references to his "more than 30 inventions."
Additionally, he has eliminated references to himself as "Dr. Philip Emeagwali" at his website. Unfortunately, the websites that copied those lies from him before he removed them are still peddling those lies. Those are the pieces of garbage that Ochiwar has been citing.
I hereby propose a modified timeline for Emeagwali:
Proposed Modified Emeagwali Timeline
quote:1954 Born in Akure, western Nigeria (August 23) Named "Chukwurah" and baptized in Catholic church as "Philip"
1958 Integrated circuit invented.
1964 Seymour Cray designs the first commercial supercomputer --- the CDC 6600 with peak speed of 9 million calculations per second.
1966 Enrolled in St. George's Grammar School, Obiaruku --- an all-boys boarding school
1967 Thirty-month Nigerian-Biafran civil war begins (May) Dropped out of school to live in a refugee camp
1969 Astronauts walked on the moon Became a cook in the Biafran army
1970 Biafran war ends (January) Moved to Onitsha, enrolled in Christ the King College, and given the nickname "Calculus"
1971 Forced to drop out of school Began home schooling and self-tutoring All components of a computer placed on a minuscule chip
1972 The calculator replaces the slide rule.
1973 Earns diploma from University of London as self-taught student
1974 Moved to Monmouth, Oregon. (March 24) Wrote first computer program 62 hosts on ARPAnet (predecessor of Internet) (June)
1975 Moved to Corvallis and enrolled in Oregon State University. Lived with famous civil engineer named Fred Merryfield, the founder of CH2M-Hill (www.ch2m.com). Worked full time and studied mathematics, physics and astronomy
1976 The first vector supercomputer, Cray 1 Apple 1 personal computer introduced
1977 Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University Employed by the Maryland State Highway Administration First Apple computer introduced
1978 Enrolled in Howard University (Civil Engineering) First test tube baby
1981 Masters' degree in environmental engineering at George Washington University. Marries biomedical researcher Dale Brown (August 15) AIDS identified as a new disease.
1982 First homecoming visit to Nigeria (May 3) The term "Internet" is coined. Time magazine names the computer as "Man of the Year." Four-node parallelism introduced in (Cray X-MP) supercomputers
1983 Obtained US permanent residency visas for 35 closest relatives
1984 Conducted mathematics thesis research at US National Weather Service
1985 NSFnet created to connect five supercomputing centers Emeagwali proposed to use the five NSFnet-connected supercomputers
1986 Masters' degree in mathematics at University of Maryland Post-masters'degree in ocean, coastal and marine engineering at George Washington University Employed as a civil engineer at the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Wyoming
1987 Used NSFnet and 65,000 processors to outperform $30 million supercomputers
1988 Used 65,000 processors to perform the world's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second.
1989 Results from doctoral dissertation research wins the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize. Invented a formula that lets computers perform the fastest computations, work that led to the reinvention of supercomputers.
1990 Had first (and only) child in Ann Arbor, Michigan (June 15) National Science Foundation praises Emeagwali for using NSFnet to "break down the barriers of space and time." World Wide Web created in Switzerland Converts FTP site to HTTP site and thus creating the first personal (six megabytes text-based) Web site.
1991 Cray Y-MP with 16 processors introduced. Voted "Scientist of the Year" by the National Society of Black Engineers
1992 Emeagwali Expelled from the University of Michigan after flunking his qualifying exams and turning in a junk doctoral thesis.
Michigan Court throws out Philip Emeagwali's appeal, finding his cry of discrimination to be meritless.
1993 The first graphical web browser introduced Family photos added to Emeagwali's Web site Voted "Computer Scientist of the Year" by the National Technical Association Appointed a "Distinguished Visitor" of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1995 Appointed a "National Lecturer" of the Association for Computing Machinery Voted "Pioneer of the Year" by the National Society of Black Engineers
1998 Won Distinguished Scientist Award from the World Bank & IMF
1999 Won Pioneer of the Internet Award Profiled in the book "History of the Internet" as one of the inventors of the Internet. Voted among "100 Greatest Nigerians of all time" in an Internet survey
2000 In a televised speech, President Bill Clinton extolled Emeagwali as "one of the great minds of the Information Age." Inducted into the United Nations' Gallery of Prominent Refugees Profiled in Who's Who in 20th Century America
2001 Voted Best Scientist in Africa Frequently cited as "A Father of the Internet" by CNN and major media. Who's Who in 20th Century America BNW is Born
2002 100 Most Powerful African-Americans (Savoy magazine, June 2002) Africa's Most Famous Scientist (best-known Africans of all time)
2003 World's Most Searched-For Scientist Second Most Searched-For Nigerian Eighth Most Searched-For African
The eyes of the world opened as Chioma Ezeilo pens "Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: the Abuse of Cyber pseudo-Anonymity, Part II, "Father of the Internet""
2004
Emeagwali begins to drastically modify his claims.
Mine above was not necessarily refering to your unimpeachable remarks. I agree Mr. Emeagwali should move away from trying to prove himself; he's already done that. Next level is to build businesses based on his ideas. This is America!
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quote: What many here may not know is that Emeagwali's website has been drastically modified in response to Chioma Ezeilo's article.--Dr.B
There is an Igbo adage which states that only a tree would stand still when it hears that it is about to be cut down.
If emeagwali has modified his website in response to Ezeilos article, it is his good right to do so. And if he is as a result of the modification now no longer guilty of all or most of Ezeilos accusations, then dont you think it is HIGH TIME for Ezeilo to modify her own article to be up to date, accurate and factual and reflect the current situation? Or better still delete it completely.
You as a DR should know that when you treat a disease e.g cancer with drugs, those drugs have poisinous side effects on the body. So when the patient has been cured of the disease, do you keep on administering the drugs indefinitely so that the patient would die of the side effects? Dat one na overdose.
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Dave, your long story about 35 credits is a digression and irrelevant. I would preffer us to stick with the main issues. Yes I have confirmed that a student with BSC can gain admitance into PHD programme, but I have also prooved that this was not the case with emeagwali, because he was admited as a Pre-candidate, which means he had his masters. Furthermore, the examination which emegwali is supposed to have failed was the qualification examination, and we have seen from your court records that before you get to that stage you must have "at least one full term of graduate level studies beyond the Master's Degree level," . Fact is it does not matter if you where admited with BSC or not, but you must have your master b4 you sit for that qualification exam. This is made distinctly clear by both the court records and the university web site. It is no use fighting it Dave. The man actually is not such an illiterate as you always thought. Our brother Emeagwali actualy has at least 3 Masters degrees in engineering and mathematics, so it is mean and wicked for any Igbo blood to be insinuating anything less than that on Biafra forum.
Now to your popular heroine her post and her article.
quote:Since you pretend to be such a stickler for the truth, do you mind reviewing Ezeilo's article and providing us with support for your statement that:
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". -- Dave
If Chioma Ezeilo was not the one that dug out and published the court files then I made a mistake there. I mixed up her article with the wicki article, and I take that back. But the rest of my statement is right on the money. I will go into details on that if you all so wish . Better not push me to it because if I review that article for you, you will no longer like it. You see how its done? Apology is not too difficult for mature minds.
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By the way while doing my research on Emeagwali for the purpose of this discusion, i came across an intresting coincidence.
In the lists of the African Mathematics Union there is an entry for one James Okoye Chucuka EZEILO, who seems to have been awarded Ph.D in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1959. The African Mathematics Union lists him however with the suffix that his Advisor is unknown. He also has several Honorary Doctors titles from Nigerian Universities in the 90`s . See link http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Intrestingly enough, he is is sometimes called the "father of mathematics" in Nigeria.
Could this DR.James Okoye Chucuka EZEILO perchance be a relation to our esteemed Chioma EZEILO. If so what a coincidence. Can anyone shed more light, confirm or debunk? I must confess though that I am a persimist so I dont really believe in coincidence.
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In the "BNW Intelligentsia" topic, Daud wrote:
quote:What we have going on on this board is the problem of lazy new members, who fail to read the archive or to show any scholarship. They think that all they have to do is say they are Igbo, better yet Biafran, and all will be well.
In that regard, the only thing worse than the character named HeBiafreak is the lunatic named Ochiwarlord. I truly believe that Ochiwarlord neither reads nor understands the things he claims to have read.
I could not agree more with daud.
Ochiwar:
You have now admitted that you made false statements against Chioma Ezeilo. That is the only intelligent thing you have done since you started spouting your nonsense in this thread. It took Daud's persistent teaching method to show you the light. But it finally worked on you. You have to learn to read and grasp what you read before you comment on them.
Even if people were to forgive you for fabricating the false story that it was Chioma Ezeilo that exposed Emeagwali's dropout news, you have also committed another blunder. This time, you raised a non-issue about Emeagwali's lack of masters degree(s) so that you could strike down the same issue that you raised, and claim an empty victory. From the beloved logic book for children that you read (apologies to Olumide), you should know the name of that particular fallacy.
I was wondering why you were tearing your shirt to tell us that Emeagwali has one or two masters degrees. Who cares? You were hoping that someone would declare that Emeagwali did not have a masters degree, and thus give you a Eureka moment. But, no one took your childish bait. The whole thing seemed unnatural, off the point, if also childish as you fretted yourself about masters degrees.
If you were as careful a reader as Chioma Ezeilo is a writer, you would have noticed that Chioma never wrote that Emeagwali does not have a masters degree.
Here is what Chioma wrote in her message to Emeagwali:
quote: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.
Saying that a person has a bachelor degree in Math is not the same thing as saying that the person has no other degrees, including masters. Unfortunately for you, you were too careless a reader to see the nuanced manner in which Ezeilo wrote what she had to write.
If you wanted to focus on Emeagwali's degree, the main one that has been an issue is the Ph.D because Emeagwali had been calling himself "Dr. Emeagwali" for many years until he was exposed.
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LOL, Kunle LOL. Appart from your pleasant anecdote about olumide Williams ( I am sorry if the way I disgraced your Bros pains you but he was begging for it) , you are just repeating exactly what Dave, Wacko and Dr. B have said. I have gone into everything you are repeating here. Scroll up and sort it out. Wassamatta? no input of your own? Nothing new?
quote:I was wondering why you were tearing your shirt to tell us that Emeagwali has one or two masters degrees. Who cares?--Kunle
Then why do you care if he has one two or none Ph.D degree?
I know it is a nightmare and rude awakening for the likes of you and Daud for an Igbo writer to be using charged and forcefull arguments to encourage fellow Igbos that we Igbo need to stick together inorder to overcome the oppressors. It pains you that Emeagwali should regain even one inch of his reputation, which has calously been thrown to the dogs here at Biafra forum to the glee and delight of the likes of Daud at. al. It goes against all your survival instincts and you will do your best to confuse the readers. But to no avail because facts speak for themselves, and you cannot tie my mouth, I will continue to get the people thinking.
And since you have become such an expert in fallacy thanks to my encouragement, have you taken the time to scrutinize Chioma ezeilos article for Fallacy? Make out time to do so. I will give you a hint; "argumentum ad populum"
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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There must never be an Igbo solidarity in support of 419. Any Igbo person calling for Igbo people to support Emeagwali's 419 can count me out, especially when it involves insulting the world respected mathematician, Professor James Ezeilo.
Professor Ezeilo does not own a website, yet the world knows and can quote his contributions to mathematics. A cursory search of the web will readily show the Universities where Professor Ezeilo taught mathematics. Not Flip Flam!
quote:Originally posted by Amadi O.: Emeagwali, if you want a partnership PM me. I know how to sell.
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Next level is to build businesses based on his ideas. This is America!
Amadi O:
If you want to implement "Emeagwali's ideas," all you have to do is go and pick up "his 41 patents" and implement them. Patents are public records, and you should not need a PM from Emeagwali to carry out "his ideas"
Afterall, this is America!
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Your client was charged with and convicted of Armed Robbery. You accused and acquitted your client of shop-lifting. Boy, you are good.
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What sets us (Igbo/Biafrans) aside from the other tribes is our ability to call it like it is even when a son is involved. Initially, this Emegwali fella tried to create the impression he is more of a Yoruba than Igbo, which to me was weird since all about the man points to his Igboness yet he found something wrong with being fully associated with his kin? This thread gives affirmation to my continued hammering on the need to avoid starting a thread that would duplicate one already in progress. Had this not been the case, all those in defense of the fraud Emegwali committed would have availed themselves to the information that already exists on; “Philip Emeagwali To Grace N1000 Bill.” The modified Emegwali’s site indeed lends credence to the FRAUD Ms. Ezeilo pointed at. The difference between giving support to one based on his Igboness and supporting outright mess is like day and night. Had the issue with Philip been unfair and substantiated bias against him be it by the nigerian government or Michigan U, the call to rally behind him would have to me garnered the needed support. But in this case, what this dude did was to diminish the accomplishments of those Igbo that rightly earned theirs by stating what he was not. I do not need any modification of his site to conclude that he bungled it big time, he made a joke of himself and as a result should live with it. Ms. Ezeilo is hardly his problem, he is his own nemesis and the sooner he quit the better for him. All I needed to make the judgment that a fraud was committed was the use of the bogus prefix “Dr” even when he was yet to receive the degree that was eventually eluded him. To support the fraud claim further, I too visited Emegwali’s site then, there he lined all his pending “patents” on the numerous discoveries he claimed. People are forgetting that most of the accolades on Emegwali site’s came from his wife, Dale whom he never disclosed was family until it was equally revealed by a vigilant observer.
I read this quote somewhere;
quote:When he was 17, he received a scholarship to Oregon State University. He arrived at the University in 1974 and has since earned four other degrees - a Ph.D. in Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan along with two Masters Degrees from the George Washington University.
Philip Emegwali born 1954
Admitted to Oregon State 1974
Yet ”When he was 17, he received a scholarship to Oregon State University.”? Shouldn’t he be 20 years-old and not 17?
quote:Mine above was not necessarily refering to your unimpeachable remarks. I agree Mr. Emeagwali should move away from trying to prove himself; he's already done that. Next level is to build businesses based on his ideas. This is America! – Amadi O.
Well said! If the altercation is about building a business and maintaining it I doubt if any would have had any qualms with that, but instead what Emegwali tried and failed to do was build a false resume just to look too important. The padded profile was his waterloo, which he does not seem to fully understand. His antecedents reminds me of those shameless fellas during high school days that would actually dive into a pile of dirt on the pretence a passing luxury car (Citroen, Mercedes, Jaguar etc) belongs to their dad or uncle. As it usually turns out after someone who knows this class of folks real well reveals, none of the dude’s relatives own a bicycle what more a tire. And this was what Philip did on his family run site to his own detriment!
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quote:Originally posted by MeBiafran: This thread gives affirmation to my continued hammering on the need to avoid starting a thread that would duplicate one already in progress. Had this not been the case, all those in defense of the fraud Emegwali committed would have availed themselves to the information that already exists on; “Philip Emeagwali To Grace N1000 Bill.”
YouBiaFreak:
The thread you mentioned is not the only one that has dealt with Philip Emeagwali. The bottomline is that there are people here who refuse to learn. Here are several other links about the same subject. Did the newbies bother to do a search? NO! However, after a long while, a new thread on a related subject is not necessarily a bad thing.
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quote:you and your 419 scams. ..you are nothing but a grand online fraud ...you and your criminal online enterprise...Igbo people and Nigerians - a country that thanks to you and your ilk will forever be known as a sponsor of fraud and scams.--Chioma about Emeagwali
quote: he is nothing but a deranged crook, a University of Michigan dropout---Vertigo about Emeagwali
quote: Emeagwali's 419 -- Onyemaechi
You all are doing yourselves a great disservice by placing this man in the same category as the likes of Fred Ajudua, Ezeego and, Joneb to the utmost glee of the haters.
I am sick and tired the way the mans achievements such as several MSc in various engineering fields are being swept under the carpet .
For example in the wicki article on Emeagwali Biography which borrows heavyly from Chioma Ezeilos article, this information is concealed.
When the Mr anonymous critic raised this point, what was the reply of the racist editor?
quote:FACT CHECK
You left out four graduate degrees in four different fields .... PLEASE CONTINUE to ENLIGHTEN US ... You intentionally skipped four graduate degrees ...--Anonymous
and thze reply from the editor
quote: What four graduate degrees. As far as I can tell Emeagwali doesn't list them on his website. --Robert Merkel 05:55, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Yeah? Well how stupid can you get Mr.Merkel?
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The thread you mentioned is not the only one that has dealt with Philip Emeagwali. – idi amin daud
Em, let me see, thanks. I think!
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1. Philip Emeagwali's greatest achievement, that warranted him the most praise, was The Connection Machine. The Connection Machine utilizes 65,000 computers linked in parallel to form the fastest computer on Earth. This computer can perform 3.1 billion calculations per second. This is faster than the theoretical top speed of the Cray Supercomputer. Though he did not "invent" The Connection Machine, his work on it won Philip Emeagwali the Gordon Bell Prize of 1989. The parallel computer was twice as fast as the previous year's computer. The Connection Machine was a great advancement over previous designs built by IBM's design teams of Thomas J. Watson, Jr. and Fred Brook.
2. Philip Emeagwali designed the program and formula for the fastest computer on earth, the Connection Machine. He designed the system of parallel computers that are used by all search engines, for example Yahoo or Search.com. The parallel computer idea was also worked on by individuals such as Burton Smith and Daniel Hillis.
3. The Connection Machine with a program developed by Philip Emeagwali solved a 350 year old packing problem that was considered to be one of the great unsolved mathematics problems. The Connection Machine and Mr. Emeagwali also designed equations to explain how sperm swim, how polluted groundwater flows, how the Earth's interior moves and causes volcanic eruptions, finally how to recover petroleum safer and in larger quantities.
4. Finally Philip Emeagwali designed the Hyperball computer which is able to forecast long-term global warming patterns.
This is aside from a host of personal and social achievements.
Nna, make una leave me and dis Emeagwali abeg, I go die with am O!
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If "Dr. Scott Williams" really exists and he wrote what you quoted, then "Dr. Scott Williams" is an ignorant boob. You have just indicted the very quality of your own research and in the process you have nailed your man Emeagwali into his coffin. According to your "Dr. Scott Williams,"
I am shaking my head! This shows that the people that report the Emeagwali lies do not bother to do any research. They simply reproduce the trash that Emeagwali gives them.
I know it is a violation of the rules of this board for a person to publish something that is "knowingly false." Are you sure you read the source you cited? Since when did civil engineering become the same thing as "scientific computing?" Na wa for that man oh!
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Massob, Keep an open mind. Did you do any search for Scott or inform yourself about him before you condem him as ignorant boob and non existent? That the well respected Dr. Scott exists is not in doubt at all as you could easy have found out before posting. Find out all you ever need to know about him at http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~sww/ Or search the main University site at http://www.buffalo.edu/ , that will show you that my research is quality as usuall.
But you are wrong to assume that because one detail in the write up is wrong the you can discount all the other facts there.
And besides who says that it is wrong? All we know is that Emeagwali was not awarded his Ph.D from Michigan based on the court opinion of 1999. That was six years ago and the actual time he was doing that aborted Ph.d was over 10 years ago. Do you know if emeagwali has got his Doctorate in that time, even if honoris causa?
I Felt Dr. Scott should be in a better position to know or find out and thus, as you can see from my entry in the wiki discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Philip_Emeagwali I had already sent him a mail to clarify me on that point or correct the article.
As it is, pending his reply, i take him as a proffesor of mathematics to be an authority who should know what he is talking about and his article to be factual.
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UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
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and implement them. Patents are public records, and you should not need a PM from Emeagwali to carry out "his ideas" ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
