Philip Emeagwali - A Father of the Internet - Pioneer of the Supercomputer - Biography - Black African American Scientists Inventors Inventions

Emeagwali in American Exam Syllabi
For contributions to supercomputer and internet and from
Black History Month to Law School Admission Test (LSAT).
Homework Tips: Study and
64-part, 1,000-page biography and 100 video clips.

TIME: The "Unsung Hero" Behind the Internet
"The Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali" - TIME magazine
"A father of the Internet" - CNN
"One of the great minds of the Information Age" - Bill Clinton (The White House)

Emeagwali ™ Voted History's 35th Greatest African (pdf, html)
Inducted into gallery of history's 70 greatest black achievers.
In top 35: Mandela, Nkrumah, Pele, Bob Marley, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King.

Postage Stamps Honor Supercomputer Genius (pdf, html)
Stamps issued to commemorate Philip Emeagwali.

Oscar Winner Denzel Washington Asked to
Star as Emeagwali

Click on menu or "arrow" bars to breakout 14 videos:

I Speak for Africa
259 pages from a forthcoming book of collected speeches.

�Fichaje de inmigrantes o fuga de cerebros? [Spanish]
Review of 10-day tour of Spain focusing on African issues (photos, video in progress).(Profile in Spain's No. 1 newspaper)]

L'Africa deve produrre o perira' [Italian]
Emeagwali embarks on a 10-day speaking tour of the Island of Sicily.

Intellectual Capital, Not Money, Alleviates Poverty (pdf, html)
Keynote speech at University of Alberta, Canada. [ video]

Around the Globe, Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap
Keynote speech in Arizona (pdf, html, handwritten, commentaries, watch video below)

Within the Internet lies Africa's clay of wisdom
Keynote speech at African Diaspora Conference (pdf, html, french, handwritten, commentaries watch video above)

"Africa Must Reinvent Itself," says Emeagwali
At Developing Africa Forum, Sicily, Italy.
(English, Italian)

La difficile missione del Bill Gates africano
La Cnn e Times lo hanno battezzato �padre di internet�.[Profile in Italy's top business publication]

Africa Must Produce or Perish
Africa Day lecture hailed as porous, thoughtful, and textured.
(photos)

Philip Emeagwali Conference Collection
Photos, Emeagwali's remarks, keynote speech, poetry, purpose and papers from Emeagwali Research Center.

Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Emeagwali on "father of the Internet" and his visit to Switzerland.
(Listen to or download podcast. Read transcript. The entire 74-minute English-French video will be available to Friends of Emeagwali)

Ebony magazine features Emeagwali in "Eight Africans & their contributions to the world." Philip Emeagwali Ebony Magazine April 2008
Philip Emeagwali in April 2008 issue of Ebony ( page 116).

Emeagwali's Predictions for 21st Century Internet Hailed as
�Utterly Wondrous, Yet Frightening�
Review and radio spots (Beyond the Last Computer, video and photos from Trinidad in progress).

The Dance of Death
Biafran and Martin Luther King 40th anniversary speech. (YouTube.com/emeagwali)

Thunder Road to Biafra (pdf, html)
Nigerian war photos, poems and letters to Emeagwali (250 pages)

What Makes a Ground-Breaking Discovery?
Lecture delivered at Michigan State University on April 18, 2007
(also proclaimed Philip Emeagwali Day by the City of Lansing, Michigan)

For Student Activities Planners
Now Booking for African Students Associations and for Black History Month.

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Internet is the 8th Continent!
Lecture delivered at Michigan State University
preceding award from Governor of Michigan
to Emeagwali for his "tremendous impact on the state of Michigan."

Conversations with Emeagwali
On a cornucopia of issues [at Univ. of Alberta, Canada].

African Icons Raise AIDS Awareness
Emeagwali in historic World AIDS Day broadcast.

Nigeria is Owing Me
An interview (Business Day)

From Dreams to Reality (pdf, html)
Central ideas from Emeagwali's speeches give birth to
African Institute of Technology and Africa's Silicon Valley.

AIDS is Mother of All Wars
World AIDS Day interviews of Emeagwali

Globalization Not New; Look at Slave Trade
Emeagwali's famous speech on black history (with photo essay)

Welcome to Africa
Your #1 music stop (visit and bookmark )

Chasing the Dragon's Tail (video)
A father of the Internet envisions "The Internet of 2100�AND BEYOND"
[5-minute excerpt from Emeagwali's keynote speech delivered in Washington, DC.]

Africa�s Fate Lies in the Hands of Africans (video)
Excerpt from Emeagwali's speech.

Orations & Poems for Emeagwali (pdf, html)
By Bill Clinton and several spoken word artists (80 pages)
Emeagwali visiting the University of Alberta, Canada to deliver a lecture.

Supercomputer Pioneer Feted in Fine Style
Hosted by the president of Jamaica)

The Party�s Over - The End of Oil

Who is the Father of the Internet?
Lecture delivered at Michigan State University
preceding "special tribute" to Emeagwali in Michigan House of Representatives
for "tireless contributions [that] revolutionized the computer industry."

Book of Letters Project Kicks Off
Archive your letter to Emeagwali for your great-grandchildren.

People of Yesteryears Speak
to You About Emeagwali
1990s, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain?
(Bengali, French, German, photo essay, Word and video)

Did They Heard Me When I Cried "Eureka!"

Onye Igbo ka Nbu (pdf, html)
Ozi umu igbo degara Chukwurah Filip nwa Emeagwali (137 pages)

After God is Dibia (pdf, html)
Igbo lectures and poems from Friends of Emeagwali (454 pages)

Never Breathe What You Can't See (pdf, html)
Photos, poems and letters to Emeagwali. (54 pages)

Who is Emeagwali? (pdf, html)
Photos, poems and letters from recent past to Emeagwali. (134 pages)

Dear Professor Emeagwali
Letters to and from Emeagwali (1,432 pages).

Voices from the Caribbean
A walk down memory lane. (35 pages)

Supercomputer Guru Out of Africa, Into Future

Biography of Philip Emeagwali
Black History Month inventor theme & contributions to computer and internet.

64. Simulating Atomic Bombs
63. Is There a God?
62. The Supercomputer Inside An Internet
61. The Global SuperBrain
60. My Sixteen-Network-Deep Internet
59. Wie k�nnen wird den �brain drain� umkehren?
58. The Perfect School Visit Request Email
57. Emeagwali Conference: Keynote Speech
56. EL PAIS - Madrid �Fichaje de inmigrantes o fuga de cerebros?
55. World AIDS Day
54. Nigeria is Owing Me
53. Africa Day Lecture [in Canada]
52. Lecture on Developing Africa [in Sicily, Italy]:
51. Oil Tanks Exhausted, Think Tanks Needed
50. 50th Anniversary of the Computer
49. Embassy Lecture Series: A Nigeria Without Oil
48. Lecture in Paris (France)
47. Nigeria's " 50th Anniversary Lecture"
46. Poetry: "A Father of the Internet"
45. Tribute: "A Living Hero Moment"
44. Poetry: Emeagwali Had an Idea
43. "Poetic Portrait of Dale Emeagwali" -
42. Poetry: Ikenga For Philip Emeagwali
41. "One of the great minds of the Information Age" - Bill Clinton
40. "Digital Giant" - BBC
39. Africa's Golden Moment Will Come
38. Internet Worth 'Worth Billions' to Africa
37. I Am an Artist
36. Technology is the First Pillar of Progress
35. Innovation is Africa's New Frontier
34. How I Reached Internet Frontier
33. I Am Well Known But Not Known Well
32. Can Brain Gain Alleviate Poverty? - Part 8
31. Can the Brain Drain be Reversed? - Part 7
30. Can the Brain Drain be Reversed? - Part 6
29. Can the Brain Drain be Reversed?
28. How Do We Turn Brain Drain into Brain Gain?
27. Can Outsourcing Reverse the Brain Drain?
26. How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain of Nurses?
25. How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain?
24. Conversations with Emeagwali
23. The Internet of the Future
22. My Quest for the Holy Grail
21. On the Fathers of the Internet
20. Out-of-the-Box Thinking
19. Ideas, Not Money, Alleviate Poverty
18. Chronicles From A Refugee Camp
17. Africa Must Produce or Perish
16. Africa Must Innovate or Perish
15. How Technology Fuelled the Slave Trade
14. Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap
13. Where Did Mathematics Come From?
12. I Am a Black Mathematician
11. Last Speaker of Igbo Has Died!
10. Out of Africa
9. A Book That Influenced Me
8. Technology is Africa's Next Resource
7. The Reinvention of the Internet
6. I Reinvented My Internet
5. My Internet is in the Wind
4. Emeagwali's Equations for the Layperson
3. Wizards Don't Need Supercomputers
2. We Cannot Change the Laws of Physics
1C. Did I Discover or Invent My Equations?
1B. The Diary of an Inventor
1A. A Weekly on Life Stories

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