1. Philip Emeagwali was born on 23 August 1954 and is a Nigerian computer scientist.
15 Facts About Philip Emeagwali
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Philip Emeagwali is accused of making controversial statements about his achievements, such as inventing the Internet and creating the world's fastest computer, the Connection Machine, which are disputed by the scientific society or community.
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Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria on 23 August 1954.
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Philip Emeagwali was raised in Onitsha in the South Eastern part of Nigeria.
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Philip Emeagwali traveled to the United States to study under a scholarship following completion of a course at the University of London.
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Philip Emeagwali received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977.
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Philip Emeagwali later moved to Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland.
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Philip Emeagwali's thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and external examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree.
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Philip Emeagwali filed a court challenge, stating that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his race.
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In 1989, Philip Emeagwali won the $1000 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer.
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Philip Emeagwali's method involved each microprocessor communicating with six neighbors.
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Philip Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling.
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Philip Emeagwali was cited by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians can achieve when given the opportunity and is frequently featured in popular press articles for Black History Month.
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Philip Emeagwali has made several controversial claims about his achievements that are widely disputed by scientific community and journalists.
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Philip Emeagwali filed a racial discrimination suit against the university, but it was thrown out for lack of merit.