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Famous scientist Philip
Emeagwali (left) finally met face to face with sixth graders
at the Garfield Park School.
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Bill Clinton Pays Tribute to Emeagwali
[Excerpt from the president's televised speech]
"One of the great minds of the Information Age is a Nigerian American
named Philip Emeagwali. He had to leave school because his parents couldn't pay the fees.
He lived in a refugee camp during your civil war. He won a scholarship to university and went
on to invent a formula that lets computers make 3.1 billion calculations per second. (Applause.)
Some people call him the Bill Gates of Africa. (Laughter and applause.)
But what I want to say to you is there is another Philip Emeagwali -- or hundreds of them -- or
thousands of them -- growing up in Nigeria today. I thought about it when I was driving in from
the airport and then driving around to my appointments, looking into the face of children. You
never know what potential is in their mind and in their heart; what imagination they have; what
they have already thought of and dreamed of that may be locked in because they don't have
the means to take it out...."
Complete transcript from
The White House
Superbrain of Africa
"He left school in Standard 8 and lived with his family in a refugee camp. But Nigerian Philip Emeagwali
is now regarded as one of the world's best scientific
brains." [
Drum, South Africa]
He is an Intellectual Inspiration
"Philip Emeagwali, a man of
immeasurably high intelligence, spurns the description
people most often attach to
him: genius." [Inquirer, Philadelphia]
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A partial listing of future television and
speaking engagements.
- British Broadcasting Corp., Race & Science, Jan. 2, 2001
- Silicon Valley, January 2001
- Texas School Visits, January 2001
- TechTV, February 2001
- Internet Chat on Black Inventors, February 2001
- Jamaica (Kingston, Montego Bay, Negril), March 2001
- Toronto (Canada), March 2001
- London (England), April 27-28, 2001
- Men's Day (Massachusetts), April 2000
- Harvard University, May 2001
- Syracuse Univ., Spring 2001
- Paris (France), May 22-27, 2001
- Chicago, June 16, 2001
- Minneapolis, June 18-19, 2001
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, June 20, 2001
- Paris (France), June 2001
- Columbia University, October 21-23, 2001
- Nigeria (1st Nigerian public lecture in 28 years), December 2001
- Paris (UNESCO, school visits), April 2002
- University Graduation Speeches (Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria), June 2002
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A representative sample from 50 engagements in 2000.
- British Broadcasting Corp., Millennium Thoughts, Jan. 1, 2000
- Voice of America, Crisis in Nigeria, March 16, 2000
- St. Thomas (Caribbean), Youth Symposium, March 22-28, 2000
- St. Croix (Caribbean), Youth Symposium, April 1-8, 2000
- NAACP Annual Convention, July 8-10, 2000
- Radio France Internationale, Africa and the Internet, October 2000
- New York City, Science & Spirituality, December 9-12, 2000
- British Broadcasting Corp., Biafran Refugee Experience, December 14, 2000
- Kenmoor Middle School, Dec. 15, 2000
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L'un des grands noms de l'âge de l'information
[Discours du président Clinton au parlement nigérian ]
"L'un des grands noms de l'âge de l'information est un Américain d'origine nigériane nommé Philip Emeagwali. Il avait dû quitter l'école parce que ses parents ne pouvaient pas lui payer la scolarité. Il a vécu dans un
camp de réfugiés pendant votre guerre civile. Il a obtenu une bourse universitaire et a fini par inventer une formule qui permet aux ordinateurs de faire 3,1 milliards de calculs par seconde. On l'appelle parfois le Bill Gates de l'Afrique.
Mais ce que
je veux vous dire, c'est qu'il y a un autre
Philip
Emeagwali
- ou des centaines, des milliers - qui grandissent en ce moment au Nigeria. J'y pensais lorsque j'arrivais de l'aéroport, puis dans mes déplacements ici, en voyant les visages des enfants.
Personne ne sait ce qu'il existe de possibilités dans leur esprit et dans leur coeur, ce qu'ils possèdent d'imagination,
quelles sont leurs pensées et leurs rêves qui restent secrets parce qu'ils
n'ont pas les moyens de les extérioriser...."
Transcription:
discours prononcé le 26 août à Abuja
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