Akure
EMEAGWALI,
Philip Chukwurah
- Married
Ijeoma Emeagwali
Internet Award, 1999;
Computer Scientist of the Year Award, National Technical Association, 1993;
Distinguished Scientist Award, World Bank, 1998;
Best Scientist in Africa Award, Pan African Broadcasting, Heritage and Achievement Awards, 2001; Gallery of Prominent Refugees, United Nations, 2000; ceo., Careernalion (organisers of the African BrainGain Award;
h: Listed, Who’s Who in 20th C America, 2000;
Father of the Internet by CNN and Major Media, 2001;
Best Scientist in Africa, 2000;
Cited as 100 most Powerful African World Most Searched for Scientist; Second most Searched for Nigerian;
Eight most Searched for African, 2003;
Voted among 100 Greatest Nigerians of All Time, 1999, amongst many others.
He was also given honourable mention by President Bill Clinton in his August 2000 visit to Nigeria.
He has received more than 100 prizes, awards and honours such as The Golden Bell Prize 1989 (Super Computing Noble Prize);
World Record for solving the largest partial differential equation with 8 million grid points, 1989; World Record for solving the largest weather forecasting equations with 128 million points 1990;
World Record for an unprecedented parallel computer speed up of 2048 processors. 1989;
World record for an unprecedented parallel computer speed up of 65536, processors, 1990;
first successful implementation of petroleum reservoir model on a massively parade computer, 1989;
Philip Emeagwali discovered how to reduce heavy-duty computations that took one hundred and eighty [180] years, or 65,536 days, within one computer to only one day across
65,536 computers.
Dr. Philip Emeagwali is the initiator of the Africa one communication project to link Africa to the information superhighway through fibre optics and is currently a consultant to many public and private organizations on information technology world wide;
He is ranked the 35th greatest African of all time in a survey for New African Magazine, August 26, 2004; The greatest living scientist of African descent
He is also adjudged the best scientist in the world in a poll conducted by Internet globally;
cooking Nigerian food, music sports
Philip Emcagwali is armed with a bachelor degree, three masters and doctorate degrees and grounded in civil engineering, transportation engineering, environmental, oceanic, coastal and marine engineering, scientific and supercomputing.
He is a much sought after expert described by President Bill Clinton as one of the great minds of the information age and fathers of the internet. At the last count he had forty inventions and patents which include a formula to enable computers make 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989.
Dubbed a ‘renaissance man’ Dr. Emeagwali is an acknowledged polymath and eclectic scholar.
1955
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Grew up in Sapele and Uromi with short stays in the coastal towns of Forcados and Burutu. The oldest child with eight siblings, he was tutored in mathematics by his father in his childhood and developed early interest
in maths.
1964 Recognized (by St. John’s School, Agbor) as hometown’s calculating prodigy, the fastest human computer.
1965 Recognized (by Common Entrance Examiners) as a math prodigy.
1969 Joined the Biafran army at age 14, after two years in refugee camps.
1970 Nicknamed “Calculus” at age 15 for his precocity and after his 568-page book on “infinitesimal calculus” and his “calculo analog computer.”
1972 Mentioned in the science column of the Daily Times of Nigeria at age 17.
1973 Received four-year scholarship offer from Oregon, United States.
1974 Conceived 64,000 computers—3,000 square miles apart—around the world, now called an internet.
1974 First newspaper interview in Oregon, United States at age 19.
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